RoboHelp freezing when importing large word docs

What are your experiences with RoboHelp for HTML Help when
importing large Word docs?
Mine seems to stop responding and has to be restarted. Also,
creating PDFs for large docs seems to be a problem.
While I am here, could someone please answer these questions:
1. Does RoboHelp support conditional inclusion/exclusion and
replacement of text? Where you can use a condition to display one
text OR another.
2. Does Robo support Modular Help?
3. What about automating output generation using batch files?
Is this possible?
4. Can PDF outputs be customized using templates?
it looks like Robo offers partial solutions to each of the
above questions but I will like to hear your experiences, as I am
on evaluation the tool with limited time.
TIA.

Hi zmajwa and welcome to the community
Please review the Posting Guidelines. You may do that by
clicking
here. Why? Because at this point, you have made exactly two
posts. You have asked the same question in two different places and
it is frowned upon here as it creates confusion and more work for
all involved.
The original thread can be viewed by
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Thanks... Rick

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