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Importing a Word Document

Follow the steps below to import a Word Document into a HelpConsole project:

1. Open the document in MS Word that you want to import into your HelpConsole project.

2. Click the 'Office button' and then click 'Save As'


3. Browse to the 'Import' folder within your project folder. For example if your project is named 'myproject' then the path will be c:\program files\helpconsole 2008\myproject\import\


4. for 'Save as type', select "Web Page, Filtered (*.htm, *.html)"

5. Click the 'Save' button

6. You may see a confirmation prompt. Click 'Yes'


7. Important: Close MS Word. If the document remains open in MS Word, an error will occur during the import process, because the document is locked.

8. Open your help project in HelpConsole. If your project is named 'MyProject' then you can open the project with the url "localhost/helpconsole2010/myproject"

9. Click 'Login'. Enter your username and password to login.

10. You should see a flashing 'Import' icon on the 'contents' toolbar. Click this icon to import the files.


11. After the import is complete, the page(s) will be added to the bottom of the contents, and can then be dragged to any location within your table of contents.

See also
Importing HTML Pages
Importing a Robohelp Project