RoboHelp: Editing the GLO

You can easily create a Glossary in RoboHelp by clicking the Glossary tab, adding your Glossary term and definition.

But what if you’ve created a perfectly good glossary in Word and want to use it in RoboHelp? While Word does not allow you to directly import a Word document into RoboHelp, all is not lost. Here is how you convert your Word document into a RoboHelp glossary.

1. Open the Word document.
2. Type NAME= (case sensitive) in front of every word you expect to use as a glossary term.
3. Ensure the glossary definition appears on the very next paragraph (the definition cannot be more than one paragraph)
4. Copy the entire document to the clipboard
5. Navigate to your RoboHelp project and open the .GLO file with NotePad (or some other text editor- -the GLO file is the file RoboHelp uses to maintain the RoboHelp glossary)
6. Paste the glossary text you copied from Word into the GLO file
7. Save and close the GLO file
8. Back in RoboHelp, go the Glossary tab and behold that the terms and definitions to pasted into the GLO file appear on the Glossary