RH 7 for Word - Multiple TOCs

I've read about the fact that you create multiple TOCs with
RH 7 HTML.
Does anyone know if you can also create multiple TOCs in RH 7
for Word projects?
Thanks,
Jim

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With RoboHelp 7, does RoboHelp for Word now support Unicode
and therefore most non-western languages, i.e. Chinese, Japanes,
Russian, etc.?
In the online Help of RoboHelp for Word 7(trail version), the
following statement can be found under "What's new in Adobe
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I am not sure if this statement is also refering to the
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Word possibly still uses, has not been changed for 10 years. HCW
supports DBCS but definitely not Unicode.
It would of course be a nice supprise if Adobe have actually
managed to make the Unicode encodiing work in RoboHelp for Word.
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Interesting question.
I am certainly one of those who would go the HTML route as
the HTML code created there is much cleaner and less prone to
issues than HTML created by Word. Also you can get at the HTML and
do things in the help that are not possible when working with Word.
However, you have hit the nail on the head when you mention future
authors in your company. Increasingly I believe that being able to
work with an HTML tool, which is not the same as needing to have a
good understanding of HTML, will become a basic expectation of
anyone seeking a technical authoring role, if it is not already.
But there are many organisations where the job is part time and
knowledge of Word is all that can be expected. Personally I would
go the HTML route and force the issue. It should not take too much
to get someone else to the point where they can follow on.
When I first created help I used RH HTML I started by using
Word as the editor. I hit some problems and was persuaded to use
the HTML editor. I got help along the way and now I would not
consider anything else. If I can do it, anyone can.
If you are going to import from a project created using Word,
do take a look at the topic on my site about importing from Word.

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fruhulda wrote:
If you haven't used a paragraph style it can't create a TOC but you get the blue box with the message.
Paragraph used.
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You also need to tick which tile and heading you want in the TOCs in the Document Inspector > TOC
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Hi PeggyUF and welcome to our community
Wow, 30 TOCs? I'm unclear on exactly how you will be limiting
access. Are you building 30 different versions of your help? That's
the only way I can fathom using 30 different TOCs. You certainly
can't do it by publishing a single WebHelp to a common area. You
would need to generate WebHelp 30 different times to 30 different
folders. Then publish each output folder to a corresponding server
folder. Then restrict each user to only seeing their assigned
folder.
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Hi there
Colum is a teensy bit misleading in his reply. Certainly he is spot on with most of it, but the bit about WinHelp not being supported out of the box on Vista is technically incorrect.
What is technically correct is that 32 bit WinHelp is not directly supported. The first time you attempt to run a 32 bit WinHelp file you are prompted to download the 32 bit WinHelp display engine. But support out of the box is there for 16 bit WinHelp with no download needed.
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HTML.
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Jim
Thanks,
Jim

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just as an encouragement: we sucessfully converted a HUGE RH
for Word project (4,300 topics) to RH HTML a while ago, including
TOC, index and everything. I must admit though that we had all
those topics in only 25 word documents. Maybe you can reduce the
number of documents by moving the topics? There will always be
problems you run into and afterward, we had to go through every
single topic and check the formatting, but I guess you'd always
have to do this. But I think it's worth it, working in HTML is so
much more convenient.
Good luck!
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- RoboHelp HTML
Questions:
1. Am I right that it seems you can do everything with
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2. If not (1, above), what are the relative advantages and
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I see you posted the question here as well as the TechShoret
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I have removed your email address and other details as it is never a good idea to post them on any forum. They were part of your email signature.
I understand the question but only Rh's developers can answer that. My guess would be that only Rh HTML was patched but maybe they can now fix it for Rh for Word. Support are the people to ask them that.
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Hi awu10 and welcome to our community
While I have no answer for you on this issue, I'm wondering
why you are using RoboHelp for Word if you are interested in
WebHelp output? RoboHelp HTML is the more logical choice here.
Additionally, you will find a wealth of folks that know how
to assist with questions like these for RoboHelp HTML, while those
using RoboHelp for Word are a diminishing group.
RoboHelp HTML has a very "Word Like" interface. The big
difference between the two (aside from the fact RoboHelp HTML was
specifically designed for creating HTML Help and WebHelp) is that
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