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It's great to hear my advice helped somebody, even if it took 7 years

I have been using various versions of Flare for a decade and have never seen this happen on projects already in Flare as HTML topics.

I have seen a bug where, when importing from some sources, spaces that are located between two differently formatted elements (like <b>Word</b> <i>Word</i>) get lost ...

When I have seen this happen it means Word is displaying a dialog box, but it is hidden behind other windows.

Would popup links work? Make the mega-topic simply a list of popup links, which each display another topic within a popup that appears over that main topic. Users would only be able to see one at a time.

The other possibility is indeed using snippets. In this case you'd have the individual topics ...

Since it shows the software build number, which isn't part of the Flare source, it's likely that this is in a "Help About" box generated by the software and is not part of the Flare help project. The problem needs to be fixed in the software, not in the Flare source.

See viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18878

I'm using 2022 r3 on Windows 10 and I am not seeing this issue. PNG, GIF, and JPG images all have Snagit editor and whatever else I have set on my computer for those types under Open Linked File With.

The CSS for topics doesn't apply to the tripane skin because the topic is inside a frame of the skin and the css only applies within that frame. To apply CSS to the skin you have to link your stylesheet into the skin via the custom javascript of the skin as described here: https://forums ...

There is in general no need to do this, as the HTML project will follow the links to the sub-TOCs and insert them where they are referenced.

If the problem is that you are seeing Level1, etc. in the help TOC and you don't want that, instead having the first item in the Level1 TOC to be at the same ...

If it's HTML5, it just opens in whatever browser the URL loads in. The size and position are coming from either browser settings or the way your application creates the browser window to load the help into.

This sounds strange. You're talking about the TOC that appears on a page in your PDF output, right?

We primarily make help, but I've set up for my team a package of files that can be dropped into a project to make a PDF, because we need those too. It includes a TOC like this:
printtoc.png
where ...

And to follow up on what robdocsmith said, if you are using the indent buttons which are next to the list button in the Home tab of the Flare ribbon, you should get this structure. Make a bulleted list, type one or more bullets, and when you get to where you need an indented bullet, pressing indent ...

If you put a bookmark inside the toggled section, and link to the bookmark, it should open the toggled section when you follow the link.

See https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... oolbar.htm

This is almost always caused by mismatched capitalization. Somewhere you've referenced something by typing in a name manually and you typed it with different capitalization than is used in the file name. This works in Windows because the file system is not case sensitive, but it won't work anywhere ...

Check the b or span tag which is making those elements at the start of those lines bold.

You need to combine two features:
A template page (called a master page in older versions). See https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2021r3/Content/Flare/Template-Pages/Template-Pages.htm
A custom date/time variable. Select On File Save in the update field as described in the help. You can also ...

These two options do very different things, and I don't think they interact in the way you are worried about.
Do not use "Content" folder in output determines the structure of the files in the output
If this is off, then the output contains a folder named Content and all your content (from the ...

When you use a variable as an attribute, rather than as document text, you need to use the [%=...%] format. You've probably seen this in your TOC as [%=System.LinkedTitle%] when you let it reference the linked topic's title, but you can use the same format to reference a variable as an HTML ...

If Flare could copy a table of data from an outside application into a table within a topic neatly it would be nice, but I find it usually just pastes as text. So I usually try to get it as an HTML page first, with some workaround like paste just the data I want into a new Excel sheet, save that ...

It's important to note that the second poster in this thread, rogersm, has a very different request in wanting the search to search all the projects, compared with the first poster, oceanclub, who just wants to link together three separate outputs with a landing page.

Oceanclub wants three separate ...

It's certainly doable, but it takes a few pieces.
In the skin, in the Toolbar tab, in the Custom JavaScript to include in Toolbar page, add this:
$('<link>')
.appendTo($('head'))
.attr({type : 'text/css', rel : 'stylesheet'})
.attr('href', 'Content/skin.css');

In your Content folder, create skin ...

I haven't experienced trainers using Flare, and the single-sourcing within Flare is really meant for sharing within a Flare project with multiple outputs.

It's also possible to use imports in Flare to share material between different Flare projects, possibly including Word documents, but I've never ...

I don't know about that, but you can right-click the thumbnail in the Flare editor and click Open Link to see the full size image. That's what I do!

This issue seems to be resolved with Flare 2021 r3. This one is signed and installs without interruption on my computer.