How to force RH9 to use only one master stylesheet for all Word imports?

[Guest]

I have set a stylesheet (css) as the default for my RH9 WebHelp project in project settings. When I import Word documents into the project, the edit import setting dialog does not show this stylesheet in the list of available stylesheets for the import.

What is happening instead is a proliferation of unwanted stylesheets derived from all the imported documents. I then have to manually re-set all the new topics to the master stylesheet.

How can I stop this, and force RH9 to use only the one master stylesheet for all imports?

[Peter Grainge]

How did you set a CSS to be the default?

As explained in http://forums.adobe.com/thread/866547 RoboHelp creates a CSS on importing a document. After import you can change the topics to any CSS you want as long as you ensure the new CSS has all the required styles.

If you then no longer require the CSS that was created for the import, use Windows Explorer to delete it.

Create a test project to test the theory if you have concerns about damaging your live project.

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[Guest]

Hi Peter,

That’s what I thought I was doing in the Project Settings>Import tab>CSS for Style Mapping selection. Maybe that isn’t what it’s meant to do. It’s just getting annoying having all these unneeded files popping up in the project manager so that I have trouble distinguishing the “real” topics from the extra stuff.

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[Peter Grainge]

I'm not sure exactly how that CSS is involved in the process, I think it uses those styles for what it creates in document.css.

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