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@Dave Lee: Nope, XML view. (Is it me, or is that a confusing name? - I always have to check which editor is officially which..) Thanks, guys; it seems clear that there's some unexpected behaviour around. I might just keep an eye on things and recommend that the rest of the team doesn't switch over u...

Thanks, Dan. I know what you mean about the asterisk, and about switching fields too. These were topic files though, so any old change to the text usually works (OK, this was review annotations, spans and conditional tags, but it all changes the XML under hte hood...) I'm signing off for the day now...

I've just spent some time making small changes to a bunch of files, saving them and closing them. I opened one file to make a different change and... previous changes have disappeared. Thought I was going crazy at first, but it looks like Flare has failed to save the changes to about 30% of the file...

I've just spent some time making small changes to a bunch of files, saving them and closing them. I opened one file to make a different change and... previous changes have disappeared. Thought I was going crazy at first, but it looks like Flare has failed to save the changes to about 30% of the file...

Hi George, and thanks for your reply! Your post itself didn't help - the break links dialog was simply not working for me, at all - but one of the comments did. If I convert the document out of compatibility mode, I can suddenly embed all the docs. I can't say I'm pleased with this state of affairs,...

So, I've used Flare extensively in the past at a different company. I introduced it there, found it good, and had few, if any, problems. When I joined my current employer, and found they were authoring Help in native XML on an in-house platform developed over 10 years ago, I agitated for Flare to be...