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Many thanks for your replies. I've been reading up on both methods.
My ProjectA is my major project and outputs the Webhelp for the company's product: ProjectB is much smaller and outputs PDF for some installation documents. ProjectA has the information that I want to share with ProjectB.
We are ...

I have ProjectA and ProjectB. I want ProjectsA and B to share Pagelayouts, Stylesheets and Tablestyles, so that there is only one copy (a Master set) of these files.
My output is to WebHelp, PDF and, sometimes, Word.
What is the best way to achieve this?

I have an Appendix page that I want to have the following configuration:
. Portrait header - the number and name of the appendix.
. Main content will be a table in landscape. This table may wrap to following pages.
I work with A4 page layouts.
How will I achieve this?

Thank you very much for your help.

The problem was that it was a local call I had to ask Support and the following information solved the problem:

'If the call is a local call, the call should be different. I tested the follwoing

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("IExplore.exe", "file:///C:/Help ...

Hi, I have a winforms application (C#), which previous used .chm files for the help system.
To open these we use to use the following technique.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(<path to file>).

We are now about to swap over to using webhelp, where I attempted to do the same thing.
System ...

I have the solution.
In the stylesheet I had the MadCap | dropDownBody:
border-left = solid 20px
border-left-color = #ffffff

When I set:
border-left = solid 20px #ffffff it fixed the problem.
Seems a bit tenuous but it works.
Many thanks to Laura and Lisa for your help.

Checked all the div classes that I have and non have any background colour set.
Thanks

Laura, thanks. No, I have discovered it is on all my drop-down text areas, so it isn't related to the two headings that I have for some of those areas. This means that it must be something that I have done to my stylesheet.

All the drop-down text areas are indented. It is this indented area that is ...

Because I output to both WebHelp to PDF I have set some of the drop-down text areas in some of the topics with the:
. Drop-down header with a WebHelp condition.
. Below this is a line with the same header content but with a PDF condition.
I want some, but not all drop-down headers in the project ...

Thanks, Laura. Shall give your suggestions a try.

I rarely output to Word, sometimes to PDF and most often to WebHelp.Output to PDF and WebHelp look the way I want it, but not so with Word.
In particular the:
. Bullets alignment is all wrong.
. Second and other lines of a number list are not aligned with the first line.
. Spacing between all the ...

Thanks, Lisa, I have it working! Yes, the document titles do remain at the same vertical level. Thanks!

Lisa, sorry, but I reread your solution and I am lost as how to associate the variable with the decoration frame on the page layout.
Can you help please?
Thanks
Erika

Thanks, Lisa. Sounds like a solution. I will give it a try.

My output is to PDF. I have a pagelayout for the cover page. The layout has a decoration frame that contains a number of titles for the different documents that I produce. Each title is in defined with the same font and font size. The number of characters in a title can vary a little, so I have ...

Many thanks. I shall post a request

I have a WebHelp project. Many of the topics have many hyperlinks. If I build some of the topics to a PDF output, I get lots of warning messages because of the hyperlinks. Each warning states that the topic may not be included in the output. The topics that I have in my TOC are there. I do not ...

Thanks for your help. I am only working at the css file level and it seems that dropDownHotSpot is what I was looking for - the header for my drop-down text responds to changes to this style.
Thanks

Sorry, I have forgotten which defines the format of the header to a section of drop-down text. It doesn't seem to be MC|dropDownHead in the stylesheet.
Or am I doing something wrong?
Erika

Thanks all. I'm totally convinced, like Margaret, that I am VERY happy with my bullets the way that they are!

Many thanks for your responses.
Using the same font family and font size, if my output is:

. WebHelp (previous attachment). The bullet circle is very small and the square is very prominent.
. PDF (attached). All disc, circle and square are about the same size and are the look that I am after.

So ...

How can I define the size of the bullets in a list. With reference to the attached, when I apply three levels to a list - disc, circle and square - the circle is always VERY small and the square rather large.

Size wise, the sequence seems to go: square (largest), disc and circle (smallest).

I ...

Thank you, Dave. Yes, I am working with WebHelp. I shall put in an enhancement report for this - it looks stupid as it is.
I see that Flare help adds includes a tick, which is a big improvement.

I have followed all the steps in the Flare Online help to configure concept links. When I build my project each See Also link in a topic references itself. For example, I have TopicA referencing TopicB. After the build I view TopicA. The See Also lists both TopicA and TopicB. Likewise, TopicB lists ...

Many thanks, Laura for your help.