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Not to disagree, but my experience has been a bit different. Though in
earlier versions of Word I could use programmed bulleted and numbered lists,
in later versions of Word I found I could no longer use the this Word
feature with either RoboHelp or when using just Word and the Help Authoring
Tool Kit.
Perhaps the problem was caused by the Word styles our team was using, but I
was never able to isolate the problem. Instead, I had to set the tab and
hanging indent manually for each list item.
If this works for you, try coping one list time to the next line in order to
avoid setting the tab and indent for each line. That speeds things up a
bit. However, be prepared for Word to try to help and switch to a Word
list. I think there is a way to turn that feature off in Word, but I
haven't done it for quite awhile and can't remember off the top of my head.
Let me know if you are still having trouble and I'll try to retrace my
steps.
Hope this helps.
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Subject: Re: tabs/indents in WebHelp
Kim, are you using styles with your bullets and numbered lists? Or just
typing the number, a period, and a space? Styles work much better than
manual formatting, even in RoboHelp.
Maggie
Kim Babinski wrote on 09/14/2006 07:45:13 AM:
> here it goes again this time in (Plain Text format)...
> Can anyone tell me why the tabs and indents that appear in the RoboHelp
> WYSIWYG Editor are eliminated when I generate the WebHelp output. I am
> pretty new to RoboHelp and need to get a project out today, but my
> bulleted and numbered lists are looking pretty shabby with improper
> spacing.
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