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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:Wed, 1 Jul 1998 20:27:27 -0400
>From what I remember, there was an installation option where we selected
which version of Word we'd use RH 4.0 with. I think Roger Mallett posted
on here that he had no end of trouble with RH4 and Word 97, but we had no
problems to speak of.
Hope
bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com wrote:
> In our previous episode, Hope Cascio said:
>
> > 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!)
>
> How very odd. I have version 4.00.040, and it's definitely not
> compatible with Word 97. If I open a project in Word 97, it tries to
> convert the macros, which are all in WordBasic, not VBA, and then
> chokes and brings up the debugger.
>
> I wonder if there were two versions of 4.0, perhaps.
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