Expanding & Dropdown Hotspots

[samseal]

I use RoboHelp X5. I currently use in all my help screens expanding and dropdown hotspots. I use the dropdowns to display the business rules of a screen and another for the field and button names and descriptions. I use the expanding for words in a topic that need a description.
Everything has been working fine until today when I went in to edit some details in the dropdowns and there it was empty!!!! There was nothing displaying HOWEVER when I clicked on ‘View Selected Item’ and clicked on the hotspot word of Business Rules it displayed the contents of the hotspot. So why is it in editing that I now cannot see the contents and when you view the topic and click on it.....it displays? Can someone please help me? I'm desperate……

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

Have you tried enlarging the window when editing to see if the text is there somewhere? Also try clicking in the editing window and then hitting Ctrl A and Ctrl C then switch to Word or Notepad and hit Ctrl V.

I am wondering if a style has been changed so that, for example, you have a six inch left margin and just cannot see the text.

I once needed a dropdown that was heavily indented and I saw that effect.

[samseal]

Thanks Peter, I have opened RoboHelp this morning and all is OK. No styles have been changed so maybe just a glitch and I had to shutdown and start again. Early morning gremlins!!!!!