RH9 Stylesheets folder contains other stuff

Question

I'm building an RH9 project and in the Project Manager pod the Stylesheets folder contains numerous folders that are not stylesheets. Is this project corrupt??
Many of my topics have been imported from Word docs and it appears that they bring some stylesheets with them even though I DO NOT WANT any stylesheets at all in the RH9 projoct except for one and only only -- the stylesheet I created as the default for this project. It seems that these folder in the Stylesheets pod actually contain images and other items associated with the imported Word docs.
Can anyone explain why the Stylesheets folder is full of stuff that as far as I can tell does not belong there?

Answer 1

Hi there
Hopefully my esteemed colleague won't mind my adding a bit of supplemental information.
For starters, while I cannot say for certain without seeing your project first hand, odds are that it's not corrupt.
As Peter explained, importing a Word document often creates folders. What you see in the Project Explorer will depend on your view. I sounds to me as if you are using the Classic view as opposed to the Global view as only the Classic view presents a "Style Sheets" folder. So here's where I'll try and expound.
When you look at the "behind the scenes" files on your hard drive you will not find a folder named "Style Sheets". What you are seeing in RoboHelp is RoboHelp's way of presenting the information it's aware of. Note that if you look at the other folders (Images, Multimedia, Baggage Files, etc.) you will also see the same folders listed inside their presentation. Yet when you look at your hard drive it will be devoid of folders bearing the same names.
This is because these aren't folders. What they are is RoboHelp filtering the view to show you files of that specific type.
Personally, I've never sweated the fact that RoboHelp creates a CSS file for each Word import. Just ignore it. What matters is that things appear as you want. And it's super simple to ensure a single CSS is used when you create your output.
Cheers... Rick
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