HTML Help Builder
Text carried over to new topic
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Enter text for a help topic
Click on Topic Links
Copy the topic filename
Switch to another application (I'm doing this to set the HelpKeyword in Visual Studio 2008, Visual Basic). It doesn't seem to be necessary to do anything in the other application.
Switch back to Help Builder.
Click on New Topic, and create a topic (note that Topic Links is the active tab during the new topic creation).
The new topic has the text associated with the previous topic.
With these steps, it's pretty consistent; changing just about anything in this sequence makes the new topic appear properly blank.
