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Uhm, many of us are less blessed and live in the PC world. Did you come across a tool that does the same task on a Windoze system?

...and it should be quite easy to implement those into Flash output. At least YouTube uses Flash video and I use it since years on my own web site and I must say, given the size of the files it is just awesome quality, especially when it has to get delivered via the web.

Congrats from me as well. Those were the days when we were 1000 posts young.

YEAH!!! MadCap X-Edit Express will be a great thing, especially when it is even easier to use than Word. Yes, it has to be on the level of Notepad and not be more complicated than Wordpad at the most. Many times subject matter experts are neither tech writers nor do they know much 'about computers ...

I recommend treating documentation in no way different than software code. In fact, it is the same as code. The language used is even more complex than any of the programming languages, but various functions and modules are created that then get compiled to executable output. With that said I think ...

Dwag, good that you have a solution now, but believe me, you really do want to look at Master Pages. It is amazing what you can do with that feature.

What do you mean with "less busy"? You can add that link to a master page and set all topics to use that master page, which will then have the result that Flare slaps the hyperlink into every topic upon compile. Can't get any easier than that.

That would apply to running Flare, but if I understand correctly the installer dies unexpectedly, so .NET shouldn't be the issue. Since Flare uses the dreadful MSI files it may be worthwhile to see what is up with the Microsoft Installer runtime. If MadCap would just use a plain simple installer ...

Exactly...since it isn't really that difficult to make better products than Adobe and Microsoft. Getting as good as a legal team like MS might be the tricky part.

Welcome to the club and good to see that Mimic gets an expert to drive the project forward.

...everytime I see Microsoft's ticker symbol I have to think of the word "misfit".

Hi Deecey, welcome to the forums! I cannot give answres to most of your questions (I'm never extensively used Frame), but there was a discussion a few days ago that might give you some ideas in regards to your third question. See here: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... =10&t=5600

Not even when adding the script into the onLoad event? That would show the topic in the topic pane and as soon as the topic page is loaded in the frame the script gets executed, which then should show the pop-up. Not that I ever tried that....

XP is still offered, for example at TigerDirect for 139$. See http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2571830&Sku=M17-7503

Would have been nice if the MadCap product designers had some more foresight (and really, not that much foresight was needed) and chose a ...

Wouldn't it be beneficial to wed those two features together? Or at least give an option to do so?

I haven't looked at Analyzer for a while, but I was also under the impression that this feature works the way you expect it. I also figured that this is one of the reasons for using a database. I guess it may be worthwhile the fine print as I doubt that the documentation states that it will generate ...

In any case, I highly recommend the upgrade to XP. It seems that Microsoft got a handle on all the driver and stability issues in XP that exist in Vista. Also, Microsoft did a great job in improving XP performance, it is about 1/3rd faster than Vista.

Welcome to the forums and thanks for the helpful post!

Can you post a header that is in one of the files (or more)? I'd be interested what is in there that breaks Flare.

Your best bet is to get in contact with MadCap support and send them the file over to see what makes Flare to keel over. Maybe it is something that can be changed in the Word document without changing the ultimate result.

.....or use File Explorer and have the functionality available today.

And you are just blatantly wrong with that demand. It does not only make much sense, it is counter to any software design principles ever conceived.

IE creates tons of temporary internet files for you, but does it ever delete them? Once a file is deleted it is gone, obviously. So adding an annoyance factor to deletions is actually a good thing. When designing applications one has to make sure that deletions are an act of full intent.
Besides ...

Kevin stated that McDonald's was successfully sued.

And besides that, the help does state this:
Recent Files Dialog

Use this dialog to remove files from the list of recently opened files. This allows you to keep the list shorter and more manageable.

Note: When you use this feature, the file is ...

Those toothpick instructions lack as well then, doesn't say you are not supposed to swallow them.

The only application I ever came across that lets you do that is Notepad. Other than that, file locks are life savers and exist for good reason. Can't just pull the rug under an application's feet and assume it is all working out OK. I bet you can't delete the executable file of an application that ...