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    RoboHelp 11 - Bug when mapping RH styles to Linked Word styles in Printed Doc layout

    thekofler Community Member
    thekofler May 1, 2014 12:47 AM

      When creating a Printed Pocumentation layout, RoboHelp 11 won't allow me to map RoboHelp styles to styles in my Word template that are defined as Linked styles.

      What's a Linked style in Word? A horrible feature in Word that allows styles to be defined as "Linked" which means that they can be applied either as a character style or a paragraph style in Word depending on the context you apply them. You can see which styles in Word are defined as Linked because they have both the paragraph symbol and the character style displayed next to them in the Word style pane.

      The problem is that most of Word's built in styles, like Body Text, Footer, etc are Linked styles. And no you can't change this and change the style back to a simple paragraph style. You can't even do this with VBA. Once a Linked style, always a Linked style it seems.

      This means I cannot map a RoboHelp style called BodyText to the Word style Body Text for example, like I used to in RoboHelp 10. When I try to map RoboHelp styles in the Print Document Appearance dialog to the equivalent style in Word, RoboHelp won't let me select a style and tells me that "Preview is not available for muti-styles". And even that is wrong because it is not multi-styles that are the issues it is Linked styles.

      So when the printed document is generated, RoboHelp now thoughtfully creates a new style in the Word document called "bodytext" and also styles for all the styles it won't allow you to map because they are Word Linked styles. Grrrr.

      This is that only occurs in projects created in RoboHelp 11 when you create a new Printed Documentation layout. Projects I created in RoboHelp 10 that had a Printed Documentation Layout already defined that are opened and upgraded to RoboHelp 11 projects do not suffer this problem. However, create a new Printed Documentation layout in a project that has been upgraded to from RoboHelp 10 to 11 and the problem occurs.

      It means that in order to map styles correctly you have to duplicate every Word style that you want to map that is defined as a Linked Style and make sure the Word style is not a Linked style, then remap all your RoboHelp styles to the new Word styles.

      Can somebody please confirm this behavior and I will report it as a bug to Adobe.

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        • 1. Re: RoboHelp 11 - Bug when mapping RH styles to Linked Word styles in Printed Doc layout
          Peter Grainge CommunityMVP
          Peter Grainge May 27, 2014 1:47 AM (in response to thekofler)

          Mark

           

          Sorry for the slow reply but I will confirm that I think it is a bug. It was only when I reread the paragraph below in this thread again today that it clicked I had seen this when beta testing Rh11.

           

          "This means I cannot map a RoboHelp style called BodyText to the Word style Body Text for example, like I used to in RoboHelp 10. When I try to map RoboHelp styles in the Print Document Appearance dialog to the equivalent style in Word, RoboHelp won't let me select a style and tells me that "Preview is not available for muti-styles". And even that is wrong because it is not multi-styles that are the issues it is Linked styles."

           

          I encountered it and reported it. To be fair to Adobe they came back seeking more information and in the project I was working on, I could not recreate it. I don't have the details now.

           

          I wonder if you are using Word 2013 as Microsoft made a number of changes that have given me and a professional Word developer we use some problems?

           

          Do report it as a bug and include your Word version in the report.

           

          See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

           

           

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