My Conversion Settings Menu is empty?

[bluenirvash]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if someone might have an idea what is going on with my project. I am trying to reconfigure the conversion settings I used when I imported my word document into Robohelp. When I go to Project Settings > Import Tab > Word Document Edit Button..., there is nothing appearing in the Paragraph, Character, Table, or Other Settings menu...

I wanted to reconfigure my pagination setup for a particular heading for my project, however, I cannot do that since nothing is being displayed in that Edit Conversion Settings menu. It looks like the image below:

I have no idea what is up with that.

If someone knows a solution, I would greatly appreciate it

Thanks.

[Peter Grainge]

The mapping is done at a different stage and I have no idea why those options are shown there when you access the page from Project Settings.

See Importing on my site for a detailed explanation of how to import Word documents.

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[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I think it has to do with the fact that you've already performed the import - the same thing happens when I do an import from FM. My only chance to tweak the settings is during the import process - once it's complete, I can't go back to adjust anything in those Conversion Settings. However, if you do linking, then it becomes editable after the fact; you just tell it to re-update and the new settings take effect.

With importing, put the project aside (or throw it away - that's what I do) and re-import again making your adjustments. Supposedly in RH9 (I haven't tested this) you can save all your settings by exporting the settings file (an .ics file) from your imported project and use it again on your new one; just tweaking the parts that you wanted to adjust without having to recreate all the other settings.

[Peter Grainge]

I don't think it is because the import has been done. The mapping can only ever be done at the time of import and in the import dialogs. The process is the same as far as that is concerned for Word and FM.

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[Captiv8r]

Hi all

I think the larger question here is how exactly is the "import" being done?

If you are simply importing content, you are in the wrong place for conversion settings. The dialog you pointed out is for when you are *LINKING* a Word document to establish an ongoing relationship where you repeatedly see ongoing edits to the Word content.

If all you are doing is importing (where you suck in the content, then discard the Word document and forget it ever existed as a doc file) you click File > Import and from the ensuing dialogs you get the conversion settings after clicking a button to open them.

Cheers... Rick

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[Peter Grainge]

Rick, it is only the wrong place for mapping. There are other settings that do apply to the import that are set via Project Settings, just not the mapping.

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