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Hi Madeline - since @Steve mentioned me I thought I should chime in with some suggestions. I am a Word/Flare user from way back (showing my age here - I have used both products since their first versions). The advantage of importing Word content over cutting and pasting is that it gets content in an...

Try including the following code into the macro from before. I have added the sub-headings before the main "h6" otherwise they will all be converted to Heading 6 in Word. Selection.Find.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("h6.heading7") Selection.Find.Replacement.Style = ActiveDocument...

I will see if I can make a quick adjustment. I think I left the macro plain early on as I can't easily assume what the names of the sub-styles will be.

What styles does your Flare output have? I'm guessing it has the default styles like "h1", "h2", and so on. To get them to work smoothly with Word documents, these need to the be Word default headings of "Heading 1", and so on. I usually do a find/replace to make these ...

Width settings can be set in the skin. Are you using a Top Nav skin? You need to look under Styles > Global section and check the main page size. You probably need to look at the width of the header as well. If you are using a tri-pane skin, check the Size tab - there is a checkbox to use the browse...

I know that Word can use above/below in cross references but I've not tried them. If you tell me the format of your Flare cross ref I could test it out for you (I usually use hyperlinks rather than cross refs and so don't have one set up to try). Also, it shouldn't make any difference that you use m...

Currently you can't specify that manual page breaks should be ignored, so it might be worth putting in a feature request. In the mean time, you can use this Word macro to remove manual page breaks. When we import, we make a copy of the document first and run a few macros to make it more import frien...

1. Is there a quick way in the XML Editor to create the Div element? I did this manually in the Text Editor by modifying the HTML. Then, I went back to the XML Editor and applied the Div.InternalOnly style by using the right-click menu on the Div structure bar. I'd love to be able to stay in the XM...

You can't blame Flare for this one - it is a setting at the Word application level, not at the document level that Flare creates. Several settings can trigger what shows. Index entries are created as hidden text fields. If you have Hidden Text checked in the options then they will always show up. If...

Look in the skin editor in the "UI Text" tab. The default has:
"Your search for {query} returned {total_results} result(s).

Agree about file names.

You might want to read this help page on Optimizing Search which talks about file names.
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ontent.htm

My tip is to leave the "output" in the Target set to the default, and then Publish to the correct location once it is verified as complete. This successfully keeps the source topics separate from the final output, and lets you test as you go. We had a problem in the past where one writer w...

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Thanks for this - interesting stuff.

The extra styles with the underscore are usually created when a paragraph has some extra styling in it that was added on the fly, such as italic, or indenting the para. If you have styled just some individual words, then you are more likely to get a span tag. To avoid this, have specific styles set ...

ghillerson wrote:I've decided to wait, and I'm thankful that messages posted here warned me; ...

We are waiting as well - thanks everyone for all your posts about the problems.

If you have headings, like "Name of Project" that you don't want to be in the TOC, you need to create a heading style like "h1.NotInTOC" and set the madcap property "mc-heading-level" to 0. Restarting the numbering so that page 1 starts after the TOC is a bit more trick...

Is it possible to rename TOC as Table of content? -- This topic has already been surfaced earlier on forum but I did not get satisfactory result. Are you using an automatically generated TOC? If so, this thread - https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=27679 - on the forums expla...

This could be related to the way DIVs are handled in Word. Flare now puts DIVs into a single cell table. If there is too much text in a single cell table it won't display properly in Word if you have any paragraphs with settings such as keep with next or keep lines together. Things I would try if it...

There is an option in the Import > Options tab where you can set approximate filename length. Default is 24, which might be too short for you. Try testing that with larger numbers.

I have observed the same thing - don't know for sure but can have a guess at the answer. If, for example, you split a document at Heading 1, then if you have a page break after a heading 1 it will use the text for the file name. If the manual page break comes near the start of the document before an...

My first reaction was that Print/web layout was a Word setting so change it there, but on re-reading do you mean that when you generate output, it is not displayed properly in Word? Can you clarify? Are you giving the target a specific Word file name - by setting the extension to doc or docx? That m...

Yes, Flare v2017 still imports all files into the same folder.

Here is an idea - have you tried just copying and editing the import text file and replacing the Word file name? I am sure we could create a macro to do this sort of thing.

I can't help with changing that default text but just thought I'd comment that I hadn't noticed it before. When I create a toggler I usually select existing text to become the hotspot, and that gets put into the default position. Maybe you can type "More ..." in the topic first and then cr...

One possibility.
Is the page break on a heading that is inside a table?
In Word, page breaks will only be applied if they are in the first column of a table and not in a middle column (can be in any row).
(I don't know why, it's just a Word thing, and so would not be restricted to Flare 2017).

GregStenhouse wrote:You may want to look into a tool such as "FAR - Find And Replace"

I have also used the FAR tool for this and am very happy, though it does cost money - well worth it in my opinion.
http://www.helpwaregroup.com/products/far