RH8 for Word - Strange page breaks and non-scoll headers

RH8 and Word 2007 generating WinHelp 2000.
Normal page breaks are full page width.
When I insert one in manually, it shows as only 2 inches wide.
A tiopic with this short break does not show as a non-scroll header and does not get included in the browse sequence
Any ideas folks?

Funny you should ask as I've been trying to figure this out too!
This is a Word 2007 issue - I assume you are using Office 2007? I am using RH7, but I believe my solution will work for you because it is Word, not RH.
Anyhow, assuming my Word 2007 assumption is spot-on, you need to change word options.
Go to the Office button, select Word Options.
Select Advanced.
Scroll to bottom of the window and look for Compatibility options (very bottom of the window).
Expand the layout options.
Check "don't split apart page break and paragraph mark". (You can apply this to the current open doc you see or all docs - if all docs, you will probably change the global normal template, which you may not want to do.)
Click Okay.
Note, if you go to recheck the setting, the format is now listed as "custom".
Specifically, what was happening is the page break was taking on a "normal" style with 0pts before and after. This caused for me a big gap between the top of the help window and my heading 1 style. (I have my Heading 1 style set to 6pt before and 2pt after and font is 12pt.) Changing the above makes the page break itself take on the Heading 1 style which then also expands across the draft window instead only a couple inches. Other than affecting how the Heading 1 might appear in the compiled help system, I don't see any probelm with using the page break with the normal style applied to it, however, it is a little disconcerting. I noticed this particularly in the Outline view as I sort the pages in my the doc alphabetically based on Heading 1 so I can locate info easily by client name. When I used the "normal" or should I say "abnormal" style page break, these page breaks were excluded from the sort and I had no page breaks! (At least there is still an undo option!)
I'm not sure, but you may need to modify the robohelp.dot template to keep this permanent for your robohelp for word help systems.
In addition, your heading style probably does not have the paragraph format setting set to "keep with next", so change the style and that should add the non-scroll to the header.
One final piece of advice, have the "developer" tab showing in the ribbon. This allows you to access the template and see the styles in your doc. I would uncheck the "automatically update" option so that when you reopen the doc, it doesn't lose any doc specific style changes you made.
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I am using RH8 for Word. There are close to 900 topics in my project. My problem is that the styles that I used in my RH Word documents and the styles displayed after generating Webhlep are looking different. Also, that is not consistent with all the topics; some are generated exactly as the styles are in RH Word documents, but some are generated differently. An example might help you clearly understand.
Example
I have used the following styles in my RH Word documents:
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[to see the below images clearly please zoom in the browser display]
The following figure shows topic1 when the styles are applied in RH Word:
This is another topic2 when the styles are applied in RH Word:
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Output for topic2 in webhelp:
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Thank you,
Vinay

Hi again
Well, one might assume that you knew where the WebHelp output folder was because you are reporting the images aren't showing when you view WebHelp. So the question now becomes: How exactly are you viewing the WebHelp? Are you clicking the "View Result" button after you generate? Are you viewing after you publish it to the Web Server? (That doesn't sound right as you are saying the "keeper" won't push it until the image issue is resolved. This would seem to infer that you aren't involved other than to post and act as an intermediary?
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Thanks Peter.
Appreciate you answering this one.
It's a pity this is not an option as I have word docs already written for a User Guide and the text highlighting option in searches is really helpful to narrow down where seach strngs are located within large topic pages.
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We recently upgraded from RH7 for Word to RH8 for Word. Images (bitmaps) that displayed perfectly when RH7 compiled the WebHelp do not display at all when RH8 compiles the WebHelp. All we get is an extra blank line -- not even a broken image link.
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This is an urgent and high-priority issue for us. Adobe Tech Support is unable to assist.
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Hi again
Well, one might assume that you knew where the WebHelp output folder was because you are reporting the images aren't showing when you view WebHelp. So the question now becomes: How exactly are you viewing the WebHelp? Are you clicking the "View Result" button after you generate? Are you viewing after you publish it to the Web Server? (That doesn't sound right as you are saying the "keeper" won't push it until the image issue is resolved. This would seem to infer that you aren't involved other than to post and act as an intermediary?
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Hello,
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Martin,
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Kindly provide me the resolution for the following issue at your earliest
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I have got the solution from my technical lead for the below issue, I like to share this resolution with you all.
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