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Re: Is RoboHELP 4.0 really not supported by WORD 97?
Subject:Re: Is RoboHELP 4.0 really not supported by WORD 97? From:Hope Cascio <hcascio -at- GTE -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:10:53 -0400
We were using RoboHELP 4.0 with Word 97 for the last year, and it worked fine.
(FWIW, a lot better than RH 5.0 with Word 97!)
Hope Cascio
Beth Friedman wrote:
> In our previous episode, Kristen Lorenz said:
> > Blue Sky tech support just informed me that RoboHELP v. 4.0 is not supported
> > by WORD 97 and I need to upgrade.
> > Is this true?? I thought I had read (but could not find) that although
> > people encountered problems with their RH files when they upgraded to WORD
> > 97, they were eventually fixed.
> >
> > Please let me know if this is true and if upgrading is really the best
> > solution!
>
> I believe that is correct, though upgrading may not be the only
> solution. I took the other tack -- I use Word 95 (which is compatible
> with RoboHelp 4.0), even though I have Office 97. Registered Word 97
> users can get a downgrade version of Word 95 for $15 from Microsoft.
>
> One of these days I'll upgrade my copy of RoboHelp, but not until I
> have to.
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