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While using the MadCap printed documentation, I really loved the style for the Chapter titles. I attempted to add something similar to my documentation (varied enough obviously so I'm not a total thief. :lol: ) I used a Span approach, and it looked fine until I generated the content. Instead of the ...

The SPAN class I made with all its attributes appear in the pdf TOC (bookmark) instead of the H1 (Chapter) header. Driving me nuts! What do I do?

I want an image to cover my title page. I want to be able to say, "Just cover the whole page." without moving my cursor around like a jerk until I almost/sort of have the image right. I have attempted to add the image as a background on a Title page, and it shows like, 3/4s of the image in a frame ...

Another WTF? moment courtesy of MadCap--

I am working with page layouts, hit F2 in a frame to edit text, when I get the attached error message. So what do I do? Create a new page layout. Go to hit F2. I get the same message. Heeeeeeeeeelp.

Well, I can't build my pdf because I keep getting this "Operation Failed" error (see attached). Does anyone know what this is and how I can workaround it? Right now my documentation is sitting in limbo.

I need to edit my hyperlink link in the TOC. I want it to be a different color when someone has clicked upon it and is reading the hyperlink's topic, to remind them where they are in the help. WHere do I do this on the CSS or the skin or whatever?

Thank you for the advice. I do plan on using proxies, but this was a very quick documentation, and not knowing MadCap the way I should, I did (what I thought) was the easy way out. I do plan on using proxies in the future after I have learned more about them, how they work, and how I can modify them.

When a mouse hovers over the topics in my TOC, the color turns red. How can I change this color? Also, when a topic is selected, the background turns white with the font remaining white, disallowing viewers to see which topic they are viewing. How can I change the background and/or font color after ...

I removed the breadcrumb proxy from the Master page, but all it did was remove the top breadcrumb. I still have related topic breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page....

Thank you for your help. I will try it.

I was having super horrible issues with Breadcrumbs and formatting, so I decided just to create my own using hyperlinks. But now when I am publishing, the breadcrumbs are showing up, and I don't want them to! They look jacked. What can I do?

I just don't get it. I have an assigned page for the title page in the page layout, and it is assigned in the Properties as well. The page layout itself has our company graphic and title on it. The title page is the first page when I print it, but then, for no reason, there is a blank page between ...

How do I make a two column list, where I have been in one column, but for this one list, I want to have two columns, but then go back to the initial one column?

Sometimes I need to put in a conditional tags for one sentence, and then another conditional tag for the consecutive sentence, both of them obviously in the same paragraph? I can't figure out how to do it. I image you have to do it opening the topic as html doc, but after attempting to add it that ...

I have been using Flare for three years, have bought all their versions, and it keeps improving except for one thing: I keep my Spell Checker on. But it doesn't always work. If I have just misspelled a word, Flare doesn't see to pick up on it under I have either a. scrolled to another page within ...

This is always a problem for me -- The title page. What I used to do, is a have a seperate topic for my title page with nothing in it, than assign it to the FRONT page on the page layouts. But that caused extra pages to occur. Than I assigned the FRONT page to the Copyright topic (which historically ...

Hi. I am building web-based help. I do not want the screen with them left panel to open when the user intitially opens the help. By left panel, I mean the TOC and the Index and the chapters and all of that stuff. How can I get rid of it? Thanks!

If I have my chapter numbers set to "Increment Number" but they continue to appear all as Chapter One, what the heck could be the problem?

I am building web help. I recently removed high level topics from the web help. When I build them on my local, the web help does not display these topics. When I go to the published site, however, they still appear. It is only the link to them--selecting the heading leads to an error. But I can't ...

Thank you for your quick response. I did as you suggested. When I build the project, the "Table of Contents" appears. However, when I publish to the website, it remains "TOC". Do you know the reason for that, and what I can do fix this issue?

I am using the default skin on Madcap for Webhelp. I can't figure out how to change the name "TOC" on the top bar and in the General section. My company has a report called "TOC" and we feel it will be confusing to have TOC, so I would like to change the name to "Table of Contents." Any suggestions ...

You said that the pdf needed to be copied to the project file. The pdf is generated in the project using a target. Is that good enough, to have it in the output, or does it need to be in another place in the project? Right now, when I click to add a hyperlink, I have no way (or rather, I see no way ...

Thank you for your reply. What do I use to link it? Hyperlink? Cross reference?

I have Web Help which I publish. I want to be able to embed a pdf document on the page for people to be able to click and download. How can I do this? I know it is a stupid question, but I've never done it before. Thanks!