RoboHelp Indexing

Hello every one,
I am new to using RoboHelp. My recent project has me building
a Mega file from three smalled files used by individual departments
at my job. The mega file will be used by all departments and each
department will have there own drop down from the home page.
I just finished building the Mega file. The Index Keywords
under the project side of RoboHelo did not import from the original
index files.
Is there a way to import the Index Keywords from the three
seperate RoboHelp files to the new Mega file?

Hi S,
you could 'carefully' copy the source project .hhk file
content from each of the two source project to the new .hhk file.
Open up the files in notepad and take a bit of time to digest the
format of these files. You just need to copy the appropriate
entries between the following tags....
<html>

<object type="text/site properties">
<param name="SiteType" value="index">
</object>
AND
</html>
Obviously backup before you start :-)
Kind Regards
Craig

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Click the image below to view larger.
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