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Ah, yes, well One of these days I'll learn to look where I am before I post....

Carry on, just a guy making a fool of himself, nothing to see here.....

Which option would people who don't use Frame because they produce online documentation exclusively use? In my case, I have no idea if Frame 8 is good or bad, because it's not in the right category of tools to fit my needs. If I did more print docs, I'd probably be looking at it more closely. It's a...

I would create a snippet of an empty table for each type, then insert it, convert it to text (so that you can put unique content in it), then add the callout text.

I'm beginning to see why they declined to accept Word's XML as a standard

Steve, does it look like there's anything in there you could do a find / replace or some sort of XSLT on to get standard formatting?

Which is why I asked about Word 2007. Didn't MS hide some XML in there somewhere? Or is it, in practice, just a ribbon on the same old, same old? :shock: Couldn't tell ya, as I haven't got Word 2007 to work with yet. I know MS talked about it being XML based, but as far as how they implemented it.....

It is a little surprising. In my case the Word imports I did were of draft TOC documents, so for the most part I was just dealing with headings and preliminary body text, with the intent of doing the main authoring in Flare. If you have more robust Word documentation your needs will be more elaborat...

Darn. I guess it could be related to the fact that Word isn't a structured format the way HTML or XML are. For example, the only thing that really connects the elements of a list together are the visual cues of indentation and numbers / bullets. There's nothing like an OL tag wrapping everything ins...

If you import the files, do the lists disappear? If so, I'd call that a bug....

At our office, they're talking about using VMWare to get rid of multiple machines at people's desks. A body could run both a Windows AND a Linux session on the one machine, simultaneously. Clear a lot of cubicle real-estate, cut down noise, and reduce the number of heat-emitters. At least, that's t...

No, Word handles Ctrl-Y as a repeat command. I have requested this for Flare because I'd use it quite a bit (as I do in Word). That's funny, in my copy of Word 2003 it sez right in the Edit menu that Ctrl+Y is redo. Plus I just did this test: - type the word "great" - hit Ctrl+Z = "g...

I think it's just Excel that does that. Other applications (including Word, FWIW) use Ctrl+Y as \"Redo,\" which is also what Flare does. What I would like in Flare is a way to assign keyboard shortcuts to styles or classes. This would let you do what you're asking about here, but also woul...

Hey, Bruce, just a quick observation. I found that if I clicked \"Big Picture\" in the text, I got a full frameset, but if I clicked \"The Big Picture\" from the menu I only got the process diagram. Is that by design?

Ok, I guess we have a different way of working. I haven't run a specific spell check pass in years, to be honest (pre-dating my work in Flare by a long way). However, I also won't let anything out without copy and content editing it--and that's when I also check for the red lines. As far as grammar ...

I typically work with Spell Check While Typing turned on (it's in the Tools menu just above the Spell Check feature). I've found it works pretty well. That way when I do an edit for content / punctuation / etc. I can visually look for spelling errors as well. That does not help when you are working...

I typically work with Spell Check While Typing turned on (it's in the Tools menu just above the Spell Check feature). I've found it works pretty well. That way when I do an edit for content / punctuation / etc. I can visually look for spelling errors as well.

Are your images inside the <ol> tags? When I use images in that way I close off the list, insert an image, and then start a new list (with the numbering continued from the previous list). Working this way seemed to give me the greatest control when exporting to Word. I normally insert the image int...

It's possible the images are taking on the list formatting in Word, which adds a left indent.

The other thing you can do is go into Index Entry mode. When in this mode, anything you type is automatically made into an index entry instead of standard text. Also, it remembers what you have in the index already, so if you have already entered a word you can type 2 or 3 letters and then select fr...

I know a few people on the list are using Tortoise SVN with Flare. I'm not sure how similar CVS is to SVN, but it's possible some of the techniques they used may be helpful. Specifically, SVN adds a tracking folder (called .SVN) into every folder it manages, which sounds similar to the problem you'r...

RamonS wrote:Word is broken in that area in at least all versions up to 2k3. I wonder if they finally fixed it in Office 2007.

M$ only fixes bugs when it helps them grow market share. The rest of the time they spend on "features" like GUIs with glass 3D effects.

Basically, I'm running the same hardware as our developers use. Well, you are a developer! Just because you do not crank out object-oriented code and stored procedures doesn't mean that your work can be done with less resources. Exactly the rationale I used when they asked me what kind of system I ...

The PC has a Celeron processor (2.4 ghz) and 512 mb of RAM. Not to get picky, but that's hardly what I'd call an up-to-date PC (to quote your first post). 2.4 GHz Celerons came out over 3 years ago. For production work I'd consider that an antique. And I would definitely recommend more than 512 MB ...

Not necessarily.... - Set your Content Explorer to cover 1/2 the screen (you'll want the real estate for this) - Turn on the \"Show Files\" option (second icon from the left) - Open the folder you need - Select the top file, hold Shift, then select the bottom file. If necessary, you can sc...

Are you applying the condition to just the folder? or are you also including the contained topic files? You might want to try setting the condition for the files directly to see if that has an effect.