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 | The RoboColum(n) |  | @robocolumn |  | Colum McAndrew |
Hi Fernanda.
It is not clear what you mean by "edit a document". Synonyms are designed to help with searching to find terms of a similar meaning (e.g. Creating & Adding). You can't use them inside a topic if that is what you mean.
Hi there
Although it's not well documented and it's not straightforward to get to, a Synonym list does actually exist in RoboHelp HTML.
To see it, click Tools > Smart Index Wizard and ensure the options for "Find new and existing keywords" and "Topic title and topic text" are selected, then click Next >. On the second screen of the wizard, ensure the option for "Confirm adding index keywords for each topic" is selected and click Next >.
RoboHelp HTML should then begin looking through the topics and should pause and list keywords found. On this dialog, click the Options button and choose Synonyms... from the drop-down list.
This should produce another dialog where you may type a word and locate Synonyms and Antonyms.
What would be cool is if Adobe were to build in an easier way of obtaining this dialog!
Please consider submitting a Wish Form to ask for this capability to be built in! (Link is in my sig)
Cheers... Rick 
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My version is 8.0.2.208 Robohelp, I already had sought this functionality but not found.
For me the screen appears as follows:
Have you selected an index keyword BEFORE clicking on the Options button?
| | The RoboColum(n) | | @robocolumn | | Colum McAndrew |
Yes..
even selecting the index, not show the option for the thesaurus tool..
Can you please tell us what your default single source layout is. I don't know if this has any bearing on the issue but would like to check. In the meantime can you check that you do have write access to the project files.
| | The RoboColum(n) | | @robocolumn | | Colum McAndrew |
Hi there
I'd personally be surprised to discover that this was related to the layout in any way. I think what I would look at next would be the language settings. Maybe the Synonyms are only available for English or an English setup. As Americans, we tend to be selfish and think the whole world revolves around English. 
So questions for you.
Is your RoboHelp an English version? The dialog you are showing us would certainly seem that it is, but thought it worth asking.
In your Project Settings (File > Project Settings) is the language configured for English (US)?
Aside from this I can't really think of anything else to check.
Cheers... Rick
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Well done!
The problem was same the language, my project was in Portuguese, passing to Inglês appeared tool.
It concerns me greatly because the Robohelp tool is not the same for all languages, besides the thesaurus tool, I noticed that
the search engine does not work properly in Portuguese.
Me too Rick. To be honest I was clutching at straws. Your idea of checking the language setting carries more of a chance of getting to the bottom of this.
| | The RoboColum(n) | | @robocolumn | | Colum McAndrew |
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