Hello.
I am a non-tech writer who has been put in charge of
writing/updating existing help files for a project. I am using
RoboHelp 7 for the first time, and have never worked on any other
Help file or with another Help file system in my life.
To that end, I am confused at even the most basic level.
The previous writer has not handed off to me the source files
for this project. I assume that if she had, I could just click on a
project file with an extension that ends in .xpj, .mpj, .hhp, .hlp,
and/or .hpj.
I have, however, received a .chm file based on her work
(she's using an earlier version of RoboHelp if that's relevant).
Following some of the advice here and elsewhere, I used the
Microsoft HTML Help Workshop to decompile the .chm and get a bunch
of source files. Was that the right thing to do? It seems weird
that I cannot do that in RoboHelp itself.
Anyway, I now have a bunch of files. What I do not have, and
what I expected to have, is a file with a RoboHelp icon, or a file
with one of the various extensions I listed above.
That means I do not know how to open the project and begin
editing/updating it in RoboHelp.
Any ideas for me? I will thank you in advance for any help
you can offer.