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I did take care of the problem of making the styles show up in the Navigation Pane. I used wclass' macro and simply added those styles to it ;) Thanks again Margaret!!

But I still wonder if Flare can be set to use a specific Word template for output?

For those who want to know more about the Word ...

It seems there should be something within Flare that tells it what Word template to use on my PC. All of my Word output comes up as "Compatibility View." I would like the output to be in the current Word version (2013) with a file extension of ".docx" and use the settings I configured in my Normal ...

For the longest time I could not use the cut/copy/paste commands in Flare. I wasn't sure it was just Flare because I seemed to remember it happening in another application but usually it was happening in Flare. Very frustrating. I'm in Windows 8 too so between cussing out MS and Madcap (sorry guys ...

Terrific Nita! That was just what I was looking for. And yes, I'm "that" KJ :)

Amazing how I can waste so much time trying to find something that should have been so easy. But try to search for something like that 8) "New Topic" isn't quite what I want. "Mark as New" didn't even find it. Oh well. I ...

Nita,

I'm so busy I haven't even had time to check back since I posted that! Thanks for saying Hi! Yes, I met you and you encouraged me to look for or start a user group in my area. I haven't even had time to look for any users in the area. :oops: But I will, honest.

I'm from East Petersburg in ...

This is hard to find in a search so forgive me if it's been answered before.

I know years ago we could mark our new topics with an icon in the TOC. That made it easy for the end users to find new topics but they were still in their normal TOC location so the context was easy to see.

I believe we ...

I haven't been to the forums for a while so I just saw this post. Madworld was great! And I asked for you! I said someone named Margaret from Australia really helped me with my Word output TOCs!! I wanted to thank you in person ;) You really should try to come next year!!!

First, the sessions were ...

Does anyone know anything about this question? I have the same problem. If one trajectory is incorrect and I fix it, a different trajectory also changes and I start playing "whack-a-mole" trying to fix everything!! It's driving me crazy! Mimic v6.0.0

Thanks

I had a similar question that was answered at the Roadshow ;) I knew you could apply a condition to a single word yet the only way I knew to apply a condition tag was to right-click the "blocks" and select the conditions option. Here's what you need to do:

Select the text you want to tag with a ...

Mike Hamilton covered this in the Roadshow I attended on 5/10/2012 in Philly. Unfortunately I can't remember how it is done. There is a lot of information in those Roadshows! Anyway, there is an answer to this and I will post it as soon as I find it unless someone else can answer it now

Margaret,

Thank you again. It's magic!

KJ

Margaret - You are a genius! I used your code on a raw Word output file from Flare and it worked perfectly. Much easier than my method :lol:

On a similar topic I wonder if you might know how to change the shading of a heading now that it's in Word? This issue happens whether I use your method or ...

***Note that this topic is about Word output FROM Flare not Word import TO Flare.***

Apologies to those who already know this answer but since I couldn't find it when I was looking I thought I would post my solution. Please let me know if you have a better answer! I'm a newbie!

My problem had to ...

Thank you Dave. I didn't see that "Font" control in the Heading for the table stylesheet. I guess I'm looking at too many different things.

One more question (for now anyway.) I have separators set for the rows and the columns as well as the Header and Footer in the TableStyle.css. I also set an ...

Why does Flare change my Topic Stylesheet to the table stylesheet I use in the topic? I thought the table stylesheets are applied only to the tables and the rest of the topic uses the topic stylesheet. (I'm having trouble getting my tables to look right and I figure this all has something to do with ...

THANK YOU MARGARET!

Your solution worked!

KJ

Let me say first of all that I'm still learning Flare so I hope everyone will be patient with me ;)

I'm importing a word document as a new topic. My project already uses a Master stylesheet but it seems that no matter what I select when I do the import Flare creates a new stylesheet and applies it ...

Margaret! I hope that works - I can't imagine why it won't if you've done it before. Thank you so much!

Thanks for your help! I have a feeling that what I want to do isn't available. For anyone who is curious I attached a screenshot of a Word document example that shows the output with some embedded PDFs. They are spec sheets from other companies that I have to include in the document I produce. Just ...

Thank you Lisa! Now, how do I make it happen :)
Some background:
This document isn't a help document. My output is plain old Word. I'm trying to use Flare as a content management system since so many of our documents for customers are similar. This particular Word doc (output) will just outline our ...

Does anyone know if this is possible in Flare 7? I want to add some extra files to the Flare project and allow users to see them as icons (Word, PDF, Excel) in the ".doc" file. We do that now in Word documents and it's a customer request I understand it is easier to create Web help and create links ...

I found the problem. I was looking at the styles in the Default medium and I had to look at them in the Print medium. There they were! And then I could only change the imported style after I changed the Flare-provided h2 style. But I think it's okay now!

Heading 1 is bold, all caps, has a border and fill. It outputs correctly.
Heading 2 is bold, small caps, no border and no fill. It outputs as bold, italic, with a border and a background color that is a different color than Heading 1.

Neither of these formats is in the template for the output Word ...

Lisa, that worked! I used one space and it looks much better.

I didn't realize multiple spaces were rendered differently.

Thanks!

KJ

Thanks Laura! I should have mentioned that I tried to do it in Word and couldn't fix it there either :oops:

In my Word doc I placed a section break before the first true topic and I managed to suppress footers in the first section, but the extra page in the total page count is what really concerns ...