Change To Topic Description Hasn't Taken Effect

Problem

I created a topic and named it "Welcome" in the Description. After publishing, I decided that I didn't want to have "Welcome" as a heading, so I changed the Description attribute of the topic on the General tab. This is what now appears in the list of topics in my Library. However, when I publish, I still get the heading "Welcome" in all of my format types - the change hasn't taken effect, even though it looks as if it has when you look at the Description value of the topic.

Reason

The description on the General tab can be different from the Heading on the Document, WinHelp, and HTML tabs. The Title in your published documents comes from those Headings. This makes it easier to identify topics when you're working with them in Author-it, and allows you to use different Headings for different formats.

Solution

To copy the changed name to all tabs, choose the [...] button next to the Description field on the General tab.

Alternatively, choose the synchronize all headings and descriptions option in the Topic Editor: