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Importing topics from another HAT has left me a lot of inline formatting. I have tried to highlight a whole topic and select Unformat, but nothing happens. I select a single paragraph and I need multiple selects to remove each type of formatting (bold, italics, etc.). How can I get this done in one ...

Lisa:

Thanks. But can you associate a style with each list type?

Dave

You can select a set of paragraphs and convert them to a list. Can you assign a default style for each list type? Now I have to change the style each time, when a default style could be applicable 50% or more of the time.

Thanks,
Dave Reed

Rachel:

Yea. The radio buttons don't make much sense for external links. I created a Flare support case about it. I hope something comes of it.

Dave

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I am trying to replace WinHelp Context Sensitive Help for a Microsoft Access application built using HelpScribble. With HelpScribble I defined the topic title/identifier and ID, everything then went into the .HLP file. We then entered Access control properties to give the ...

To all:

I must apologize to Kevin. I must be blind today. The body tag does have a value, 10px, for margin-left. That explains what I am seeing. I will keep note of the other suggestions.

Thanks,
Dave

Kevin:

There is no margin-left setting for the body tag.

Thanks,
Dave

To all:

When I have the horizontal ruler displayed, why isn't my left margin at the location I set via the margin-left attribute. I would assume another attribute affects the left margin. It would appear that 0.1 inches is added.

TIA,
Dave

Mattbnh:

I tried changing one of my links to Website. Selected OK. Then I selected Edit hyperlink. It is now a Topic in Project. We are missing something that is forcing all links to be in the project. I will take it MadCap support now. thank you for your help.

Dave

Thanks, doc_guy. Worked perrrfectly.

Dave

I have a series of short paragraphs that I want to change to a bulleted list. When I select the paragraphs, the style "picker" or window only show paragraph styles. How can I get to the unordered styles to do the conversion?

TIA,
Dave Reed

mattbnh:

I started to try your suggestion, but ran into a more basic problem. When I selected Edit Hyperlink, the "Link to:" was set to "Topic in Project". Setting it to "External Topic" or "Website" and saving the topic did not help. When I selected Edit again, it was back to "Topic in Project ...

Peter:

Thanks. I would not have thought to look at the skin.

Dave

Really dumb newbie question.

Where is the Help window frame title for the HTML Help output defined? When I build my HTML output, I get HTML Help as the frame title.

Thanks,
Dave Reed

My external links appear to be defined properly in the topics. But somewhere,somehow Content/ gets prepended to the external kink as seen by Analyzer. Below is one of the errors reported in the broken links report.

Alarm Configuration.htm Content/ Content/Views_Help.chm::/POINT_ANALOG_PM_ALARM_VIEW ...

To all:

I just bought the MadPak after using the trial version of Flare. I installed the Analyzer to find the errors in my projects. In the links area I have resolved all my problems, except all my links to topics in other CHM files. All 3 CHM files will be in the same directory when given to the ...

Kevin:

Sorry for the slow response. I was out yesterday, but I checked my Email. I did not see a notice of your replies. Must have forgotten to check that went I posted the topic.

I have opened the master stylesheet for my project. There is supposed to be an icon to open the attributes. .... I ...

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I have opened the Master stylesheet for a project. I added a new style, but the properties icon is missing so I add attributes to the style. The fact that I could add a style seems to indicate that the stylesheet is not read-only. Any ideas about what could be wrong?

Thanks,
Dave ...

Jenny:

Thank you. You have solved my problems. I would have thought though that if a topic uses a stylesheet, it would be under current links. The origin of this problem is probably that I imported topics in Word into six projects. (Appeared to be necessary, but probably wrong.) I then copied all ...

Andrew:

I tried setting the Master Stylesheet to Styles, but I still could not bring up the Styles window. I set it back to default and topic properties still shows a grayed out stylesheet from my Word import.

Dave

Kevin:

Thanks for your continuing help for this new user.

OK.
The missing style sheet was due to the locations having been changed. I had moved the topics into a main project. The style sheets were then moved to the main project, but the stylesheet locations were not updated for each topic. I ...

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When I open the properties of a topic, the stylesheet property says the entered sylesheet is missing. The stylesheet field is grayed out and the dropdown does not work. First should that dropdown show the stylesheets in the Project, including the master? Secondly how do I correct ...

No. I don't want to replace whole paragraphs. I imported a lot of topics from Word. As a result i got a lot of odd ball styles, like p.help_text. As an example, I would like to replace p.help_text with just p in all my topics. Eventually I would like to drive everything from the master style sheet ...

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Hi. I've just started to use Flare. I want to replace one paragraph tag with another through out the project. Flare's Find/Replace appears to only work with text. Must I work outside of Flare and work directly on the HTML files with a different program?

Thanks,
Dave