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Subject:Re: help with converting win95 help file to 3.1 From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:42:42 -0600
In our previous episode, mark26 said:
> I have a simple helpfile with popups that was constructed using the win95
> helpkit. I have robohelp, and tried to convert it to 3.1 by opening it and
> saving
> it as 3.1 compatible, but it did not work. I also noticed that after I had
> opened
> this 95 helpfile in RH, RH would open whenever I just wanted to look at the
> .DOC file in Word.
>
> Has anyone else had this fairly 'basic' problem with opening a 95 helpfile
> and
> resaving it as 3.1 compatible?
I've never gone "backwards", so I haven't had the compatibility
problem. But if you don't want RoboHelp to open when you want to look
at the .DOC file, change the template from ROBOHELP.DOT or ROBORTF.DOT
to NORMAL.DOT or some other template.
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