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. The exception to this is when you use Drag & Drop to insert the contents of an RTF file into the current topic (see further below in this 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 Floating license version of Help+Manual you can load topics from other projects directly provided the projects are saved in uncompressed XML format. Then you just select them in the /Topics folder of the other project.

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

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.

If you drag an RTF file into the Help+Manual editor window the contents of the file will be inserted directly at the drop position as formatted text.

This currently only works with RTF files and image files, which are inserted directly as images. All other file types are inserted as file links when you drop them.