Unable to add Search Tab to HTML Help

In RoboHelp HTML 6 I check Search Tab in the Window
Properties dialog but after I compile, no Search Tab is available
in the compiled help. Other Window features seem to switch on or
off as expected. This project was converted from WinHelp (RoboHelp
2002 for Word) at some point. I'm not sure what import/conversion
process was used to move it to HTML Help. Other project aspects
seem to work OK. Previous WinHelp to HTML Help conversions have not
experienced this problem. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Hey Rick,
I actually tried that pretty early in the process, but still
ran into the same problem. The good news, though, is that I seem to
have fixed the project. It's a bit of a kludge, but whatever works.
I opened the *.hhp file for the project in question in
Notepad, then opened the *.hhp file for another project that had
the search tab, and compared them. I ended up making the following
changes in the problematic project's *.hhp file to make their
settings match:
In the OPTIONS section, changed Full-text search to Yes.
In the WINDOWS section, changed the settings for the
project's main window to the following:
"Project
Title","project.hhc","project.hhk","","",,,,,0x40040520 (etc.)
That last number in the line was something entirely different
originally, and I think that's where the problem lay. Saved and
closed the file, then recompiled and the tab now shows up.
Hope this helps!
Best,
Melinda

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