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Thanks for all your help LTinker68.

This is the first time I have used the table styles as well. I had too many issues with tables in versions prior to 4.0, that I avoided table styles until now.

From the information you gave me, I was able to figure out that Flare picks up past settings on the ...

Ok, Thanks a lot. This worked. But it seems as though I have to make the changes to the code for the table in the internal text editor.

For example, in the TableStyle Editor, the table margins box lists the left, right, top, and bottom margins for the table. I changed the left margin to 31 pt, that ...

I set it using the table style sheet editor.

Here is some of the code that appears for a table when I insert it based on the table style:

<table style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;caption-side: top;border-spacing: 0px 0px;margin-left: 31pt;margin-right: auto;">
<col style="width: 50 ...

When I do that, I lose the indentation for the table.

We have Flare 4.0 and are creating WebHelp output

We've created indented tables and want to keep the "auto fit to window" setting intact so that when users resize the output window, the text in the table wraps rather than disappearing from view.

Unfortunately, this is not happening as it should ...

It worked!

Thank you Doc_guy!!!!

I reread your email and realized you wanted me to place the code directly in the css for the Help project, not in Flare's tablestyle css or in the actual code that appears for the table inside a topic.

I merely stuck the line you provided at the bottom of my ...

I can't get it to work (using IE 6). Not sure if I am putting the code you recommend in the correct location. Can you tell me where I should embed it in the following code so that I can make sure I am not messing things up on my end. (The code I have comes from inserting a table using a Flare table ...

Do you mean that table heading rows will only repeat if you are using printed doc output such as Word or FrameMaker? They won't repeat if a user prints the topic from within online help (WebHelp or HTML Help)?

Printing directly from the WebHelp output. (Someone is viewing the online Help and decides to print the topic that they are reading.)

Looking into this further, Flare says that "When a table requires multiple pages in output, the header row is repeated by default at the top of each page. Each <thead> tag must have at least one <tr> tag within it, which is used to represent a single row."

Our tables are set up this way, but the ...

We are creating WebHelp output in Flare 4.0.

Can someone tell me whether it is possible to have the heading rows of a table repeat when a user prints a topic from WebHelp and the table breaks across a page? And if so, how you do it.

We have the table row properties set up so that table rows ...

Thanks for all the info Pete. It resulted in a jog to my memory. Many years ago at another company, we worked in vain, trying these fixes with an icon strip. Unfortunately, we could never get them to work because of all the issues with abosolute/relative paths and so on. Guess those issues all still ...

Well, that stinks. I've submitted enhancement requests for both items.

Do you know whether the default TOC icons for the compiled HTML Help are stored in a location somewhere that I could just replace with my own icons?

I am creating WebHelp. Why is this functionality limited to only compiled HTML Help? Is there a way to edit the code somehow to get the lines between entries in the TOC to appear?

Also, on a side note, you can change the icons that appear in the TOC for Webhelp, but I do not see anywhere where you ...

I am experiencing the same thing in Flare version 4.0. My skin is set up with "Plus/minus squares" and "Lines from root" both checked for the TOC, but they do not appear in the generated WebHelp output.

Does anyone know why?

(Note that the location in the skin where I checked these items is in the ...

I am modifying a skin (Flare version 4.0). When I enter text for a toolbar button label, and then generate the Help, the label appears on top of the toolbar icon. For example, the label "Print" overlays the Print toolbar icon that I have rather than beneath the icon.

I would like it to appear ...

Just to keep folks updated...

I now have Flare version 4.0.

I can't believe it - this functionality has still NOT been added to the product for this release!

Kevin,

Is there a way to indent a table from the interface using Flare 3.1? (rather than from the code)?

For example, I would like to select a table, right-click, and then click Table Properties from the shortcut menu. From the Table Properties dialog box that appears, I'd like to be able to set ...

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the info. The bug I submitted yesterday (case #5419) resulted in Madcap's tech support department submitting the defect as a suggestive feature for future Flare versions. They were able to reproduce the bug and said:

"When you create a class that is not tied to any particular ...

Yes. Thanks. I logged a bug for this yesterday.

Ok -- Found them...

You have to make sure that you click the "Advanced View" toolbar icon in addition to "Show All Styles". Then you can expand the Generic Classes in the tree view.

These styles do not appear in the "Simplified View" that displays styles in a table format with properties in table ...

They don't appear for me in the stylesheet editor. There are some generic styles at the top of the styles listed in Flare's Stylesheet Editor(like BODY), but that is it. Did you select something other than "Show All Styles" in order to display them?

(I've saved the stylesheet with the new styles in ...

A quick test of your suggestion looks like it works. You still have to toggle the Bullet List icon in the toolbar to see the various lists, but a style defined without a "p" or an "li" before the period will appear in both lists. Thanks for the tip.

I'm not sure if there are any gotchas going this ...

Hi Lisa,

I have not tested it, but the following statement is made in the Madcap Flare Knowledgebase article Flare > XML Editor > XML1016-F - Use Custom Bullet Image :

Please Note: Custom bullet images will not be exported to Microsoft Word or FrameMaker.

That's why we had previously used customized graphic images for the bullet symbols. (The bullet circles were various colors.) But now that I'm reading a lot about graphic images that are used as bulllet symbols not being converted when you go from Flare to Word or Framemaker, we're looking at using ...