Both Importing and Linking have
been greatly simplified. Both Importing and Linking have
been greatly simplified.
Click File > Import and browse to the document you want to import to start the process.
You don't have to have any version
of Word installed on your computer. You can import any Word document created
in Word 2013 or higher and saved in DOCX format.
Initially use the default.wsf (Word Settings File) and browse to the document to be imported. As soon as you have selected the document, in the bottom right corner of the window you will see Adobe RoboHelp 2019 quickly reads it so that you can proceed with the other settings.
Select the CSS file to be used for mapping and select the style to be used as the break point if you want separate topics based on a style.
Set the Topic Name Pattern if you want something other than the default.
In most cases the settings below will work best.
Your settings here will depend on your end objective.
If you want to retain the appearance of the Word document, set it to Import Word Style. You can click the Mapped Style dropdown to see the Word Style and you can change the mapping to another style.
If you want the topic to look like any other topic, select Discard Style.
See Mapping below.
Word documents retain many styles
that are not used in the document, especially documents that have been
worked on by many people. Previously all the style would have appeared
here for mapping. In Adobe RoboHelp 2019
only the styles in use will appear.
Your settings here will depend on your end objective.
If you want to retain the appearance of the Word document, set it to Import Word Style. You can click the Mapped Style dropdown to see the Word Style and you can change the mapping to another style.
If you want the topic to look like any other topic, select Discard Style.
See Mapping below.
Word documents retain many styles
that are not used in the document, especially documents that have been
worked on by many people. Previously all the style would have appeared
here for mapping. In Adobe RoboHelp 2019
only the styles in use will appear.
Here you will be able select a RoboHelp table style to be applied.
Your settings here will depend on your end objective.
If you want to retain the appearance of the Word document, set it to Import Word Style. You can click the Mapped Style dropdown to see the Word Style and you can change the mapping to another style.
If you want the topic to look like any other topic, select Discard Style.
See Mapping below.
Word documents retain many styles
that are not used in the document, especially documents that have been
worked on by many people. Previously all the style would have appeared
here for mapping. In Adobe RoboHelp 2019
only the styles in use will appear.
Before you click Import, if you have made any changes to the defaults, click Save Preset to avoid having to make those changes again. Next time you import, the last WSF file saved will appear but you can choose any other configuration you have saved.
If you choose Discard Style as described earlier, Adobe RoboHelp 2019 will attempt to map the styles in the Word document to styles that are in the CSS you selected in the General settings.
The styles it can map will be in the topic(s) created and be much cleaner than previous versions of Adobe RoboHelp.
If all the styles can be mapped a CSS,
the CSS you used for mapping will be applied to the topic(s) and shown
in the topic properties.
Going forward any changes to your CSS would then be applied to the
imported topic(s) in the same way as all other topics.
If any styles cannot be mapped because
they are unique to the Word document, then in topic properties you
will see the CSS you used for mapping and a second CSS file
Going forward, the styles in your main CSS can be changed and
will apply to the imported topic(s). The styles in the second
CSS will need to be changed where they no longer work with your
main CSS. You could paste them into the end of your main CSS and no
longer have a link to the second CSS.
Note that in both cases, if you selected Import Inline Styles, they
will be written into
Simply right click in the Contents Panel and select Link Word Document
and browse to any DOCX file or files, you can link to more than one DOCX
file at a time.
A folder will be shown in the Contents Panel with the name of the linked
document. Right click the folder, select Generate HTML and your topic
will be created.
Right click the folder, select Generate HTML and your topic will be created.
With every release of FrameMaker, the output has gone through many improvements and using FrameMaker to create the output directly is recommended.
Creating an output from Adobe RoboHelp 2019 will be added later.