Text boxes in topics from Word 2010

Report · Oct 03, 2012

I'm using RH 8 (technical communication suite 2.5): when I import a word document (Word 2010) all the topics are included in boxes. How can I correct this?

Report · Oct 03, 2012

Does this happen on any Word file imported? Can you post an example of the Word file and what happens when you import it?

Report · Oct 04, 2012

Thank you for replying.

Yes, it now happens with all DOCX and DOC files produced with Word 2010.

Report · Oct 04, 2012

Can you explain what mean by in boxes? A screenshot might help.

This problem is ringing a bell and if the problem is what I think it might be, you will find a <div> tag near the beginning of the body section of the HTML. You can remove it and it should solve the problem. If not, just close the topic without saving.

I think it is caused by something in Word 2010 generated docs that Rh8 was not designed for (Rh8 was not 2010 compatible).

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Report · Oct 04, 2012

Of course.

I attach a screenshot of the design area of RoboHelp with a sample topic from a DOC generated with word 2010

and this is the HTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="OriginalFile" content="Test.doc" />
<meta name="generator" content="Adobe RoboHelp 8" />
<title>Topic 1</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Test.css" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
A:visited {
color: #800080;
}
A:link {
color: #4F81BD;
}
/*]]>*/</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="WordSection1">
<h1 style="margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">Topic 1</h1>
<p> </p>
<p>Sample text</p>
<p>Sample text</p>
<p class="Introduzione"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal;">·<span
style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">        </span></span> Sample
text</p>
<div style="border: none; border-bottom: solid #1F497D 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 4.0pt 0cm;
   margin-left: 42.55pt; margin-right: 4.0cm;">
<p class="NotaBene" style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span
   class="NotaBeneCarattere"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sample</span></span>
   text</p>
</div>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Report · Oct 04, 2012

Try deleting the line <div class="WordSection1">

Rh will delete the closing tag when you revert to Design View.

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Report · Oct 04, 2012

You might also want to remove the lines

A:visited {

color: #800080;

}

A:link {

color: #4F81BD;

}

/*]]>*/</style>

as that will override your CSS.

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Report · Oct 04, 2012

Thank you. I'll delete all the <div class="WordSection1"> from the htm files.

Report · Nov 21, 2012

I found that my Heading 2s were coming into RH in a text box because the Heading 2 style in Word included a paragraph border (overhead line). When I removed that from the Word style, no more text box when importing to RH10.

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