Copying and Pasting Style Issues

[gthomson_ca]

Is there an issue with styles and robohelp 9? for some reason my style sheet that I brought in with my project from a previous version of robohelp is not behaving in robohelp 9. I can select text and apply a style to it but nothing happens? some times I have to double click on it several times before the style actually gets applied?

I am also having troubles when I copy and paste from an html source to robohelp that the system seems to hang onto the source style and won't let me change it???

am I doing something wrong?

someone please help

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Do you perhaps have any inline styling that prevents the style from you style sheet to be applied? When you apply a style, is there any change in the HTML code of the topic?

I am also having troubles when I copy and paste from an html source to robohelp that the system seems to hang onto the source style and won't let me change it???

That's the new and improved copy function of RoboHelp 9. I don't believe there's a way to turn it off. Copy/Paste via notepad... See also http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/rh_tour/index.htm#rh9_new/html_paste/rh9_html_paste.htm

Greet,

Willam

[gthomson_ca]

I will check for the inline styles....never thought of that. I'm sure that makes sense when copying and pasting from another source but the earlier robohelp style sheet still perplexes me???

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

How are you appying a style? Are you selecting a style from the drop down, or are you using the style POD? Als, when you apply a style, is the HTML of the topic modified?

Greet,

Willam

[gthomson_ca]

I do both....sometimes I apply the style from the pod and if that doesn’t work then I go to the format > style menu and select it from there. Still the same problem.

It also applies tries to apply the style to the template which I then have to select only to apply the style to this occurrence and not to update the style.

Geoff