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Ah. I have felt the wrath of Microsoft .net Framework and the frustration of outputting to Microsoft Word - I will chalk this up to a similar conflict.

Thanks!

Hi Nita!

Thanks - this is proving to be quite useful (progress!). I've rooted out some of the links, and hopefully will be able to root out the others.

Do you have any idea why this is happening? We're hoping to keep it from happening again in the future. : /

Thanks,

Hi MadCappers!

Help.

MadCap 9 - errors on output to Word.

Also checked using 10 (same project, different machine, files are source-controlled with TFS)- similar errors, but not as many.

It seems to be trying to link a table style to the incorrect location and is throwing errors about this on ...

Thanks for the input. :)

I wasn't trying to do right pages, and I didn't exactly end up finding a resolution either (at least that explains why). One of our resident geniuses created a macro (in Word) based on of the tags we're using to insert appropriate breaks and that's how that issue got fixed ...

Hi All:

I've been playing with Window Layouts, and I'm glad there's a Save feature, but I'm having trouble understanding the logic behind the window layouts.

Is there a way I can set up my windows as I want them and then ensure that when I open new files they default to the window section that I ...

Hi all:

I am using Flare v 9 and have Word output. I tried with a PDF target, and the mini-TOC is also not displaying.

However, when I try with .chm output, the mini-TOC is "printed", and I can follow the links to the listed topics.

Nothing in the literature I can find (http://webhelp ...

Thanks, everyone. :)

I'm still trying to work through your suggestion, Tsiaris, but I'm not sure I described my issue terribly well.

I have test cases:

Test Case 1: Really Cool Test Case
Test Case 2: Super Cool Test Case
Test Case 3: Best Test Case Ever
Test Case 4: Awesome Test Case

And I have ...

Hi All:

I'm trying to figure out the logic about applying Chapter breaks (And, more importantly, the applied page layout) in a TOC. Should it occur before or after the topic it's applied to? And will anything override it? I'm having trouble getting a particular page layout to show up properly in ...

Hi All:

I'm working in Flare 9 and my output is to Microsoft Word.

I have h2 content set in my running heads, and also in my TOC (created via TOC proxy).

This content is fine in the running head, but in the TOC I want to add "Test Case <autonumber>:". I've found the p.TOC2 style, but if I alter ...

Check out the numbering guide: http://docs.madcapsoftware.com/FlareV10/FlareAutoNumbersGuide.pdf

It take some mental gymnastics, but it sounds like you may need to create different heading 2 styles if you have two different desired numbering outputs for your heading 2s. Look at the "Chapter" and ...

Makes sense. Probably won't work for me, but I appreciate the answer.

Awesome! Thank you so much!

Hi All:

I was able to create a book mark in a Snippet without any difficulty. The snippet is in a topic, and there is a second topic where I want to use the cross-reference. I can locate the desired bookmark within the topic that holds the Snippet, but when it populates in the second topic, I get ...

Hi All:

If possible, we'd like to avoid the whole "merge" scenario and have one author working on a file at a time (particularly with styles.css, etc.). Is there a setting somewhere that will force MadCap to prevent (or at least warn) the second author from checking out a file if the first author ...

(Relatively) easy fix—every single one of my conditions was set to Exclude (and there are a lot of conditions).

I know how to quickly check all condition boxes (click the word Exclude or Include), but does anyone know how to quickly uncheck all conditions? (That would be a handy piece of ...

Update: It seems to be something in the target. (A different target output the TOC properly.)
Will let you know if I figure it out (and suggestions are welcome).

This is weird. : /

I've been using Snippets and Conditions to take advantage of topic-level Snippet Conditions. I haven't had any problems so far.

Today, I renamed an existing for-future-use condition and added conditionalized content to a few existing snippets. On output to Word (and PDF) the ...

I guess it's good to know I'm alone? LOL.

I will try your other suggestions when I get back to that part of the project.

Thanks!

Hi Jason — thanks for the help.

I didn't want to apply the page layouts within a topic, I was hoping to do it at a chapter level. I was hoping to not have a super-long list of templates and be able to bury my choices into one layout grouping. I thought it might be possible because I can add ...

Hi Lydia, thanks for helping out.

I checked, and they are TOCs (Flare did that automatically, I presume).
I do have some of the TOCs in a folder in the TOCs folder. I don't know if maybe the distance would make a difference?

Hi All:

I'm sure this is an easy one, but I can't figure it out.

I can create document layouts with multiple pages, and I can even adjust the properties for each page (give them names, etc.). What I don't understand is how to apply them.

Do I have to create individual page layouts and apply in ...

Hi All! (Back again.)

It sounds like a strange question, but let me explain.

Flare Version 9; output Microsoft Word.

To keep my topics in order, I've created (lets say) 5 TOCs with (lets say) 5 topics. I've created my Master TOC and dragged these 5 TOCs into it. If I update my lower-level TOC (uh ...

Hello:

I'm wondering if there's a way to export the html of the entire project so it can be searched using Notepad etc.

I ran into this error http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13918 and was able to resolve things, but I wasn't able to search the code as suggested in the thread ...

LOL. I think I really figured it out this time... (it happened again).

I had a sub-TOC in my MasterTOC. The conditions worked properly after I deleted and readded the sub-TOC to the main TOC. Mildly painful, but not nearly as bad as conditioning everything via Snippet-filled topics.

It happened with another Target. I think it's that I had one condition in the set Included, but none Excluded. Instead of including everything it excluded everything. When I Excluded the other conditions in that particular list (not quite all of them, but it's possible the last two are no longer ...