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Subject:RE: global replace with RoboHelp? From:"Glenn Maxey" <glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:34:56 -0600
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> From: Sean Hower [mailto:hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:36 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: global replace with RoboHelp?
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> The change in the online help involves changing topic titles,
> and headings, and replacing every instance of information
> related to the street program so that it talks only about the
> railway program. It's essentially a global replace job.
> My question is, is there an EASY way to do this? A global
> replace in Word changes topic titles and IDs, which of course
> breaks all the links throughout the entire help system. Does
> RoboHelp have some sort of utility that carries out global changes?
RTF is the source for the help files. RoboHelp can re-import from the
HPJ and RTF files.
You can do your Search/Replace in Word on the RTF files. Obviously, a
global S/R will get you in trouble. However, you can refine your search
by taking into consideration formatting.
For example, is it double underlined? is it underlined? is it hidden
text? is it of some style (footnote or otherwise)?
Even if you can't refine the search, it still isn't so bad individually
looking at each occurrence of the item to be replaced. You'll want to do
this for the footnotes in any event so that you change only the topic
title ($ footnotes) and keywords (k footnotes) but not any context IDs
(# footnotes).
Glenn Maxey
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
Tel. +1 303.223.5164
Fax. +1 303.223.5275
glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com
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