Transform a Word document into a RoboHelp7 project

Hi all,
One question: Is it possible to transform a Word document into a RoboHelp7 project besides copy and paste from the document into the project?
Thank you

Hi Bogdan.
Can you take a big step backwards here to avoid any further confusion on both our paths
In your old RH for Word project, what was your output type? Also when you worked inside your RH for Word project you'd have had an .RTF file not a DOCX file as your source. It sounds like you may have generated a .DOCX file from your source. Is this right? If so, what I was suggesting is that you put the DOCX file to one side and try a different method of getting your content into a RH HTML project. Typically the RH for Word application is used to generate a WinHelp file which you can use to import into a RH HTML project. Let us know the answers to the above and we'll go from there.
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