Productivity Tip

Also see the powerful Snippets function with which you can reuse topics and topic content saved in external files.

1.Select the Table of Contents section in the Project Explorer and click on any topic. The imported data will be inserted at the end of the TOC. You can move the imported topics later.

2.Select Import in the File menu.

3.Select the format you want to import, then follow the instructions displayed.

See Settings for importing data for details on settings for individual formats.

You can also import external data directly into individual topics. Note that you should always create a new topic to do this because importing the data overwrites the current topic.

1.Create a new empty topic or select a topic that you want to overwrite.

2.Select File > Load Topic from File in Project > Manage Topics and select the file you want to load. You can import HTML, RTF, RVF, TXT files and Help & Manual XML topic files.

If you have the Professional or Server version of Help & Manual you can load topics from other projects directly provided the projects are saved in uncompressed XML format.

For full details on this function see Exporting and importing topics in the Creating and Editing Topics section.

Copying and pasting between projects:

You can also cut, copy and paste topics directly between projects in the Project Explorer. Just open both projects in the Explorer and then use the Clipboard functions in the Ribbon to cut, copy and paste entire topics and chapters between the Table of Contents sections of the projects. See Moving, cutting and pasting topics for full details.