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Really, what seems would be useful, is if the Publish feature could be set to auto-run when you build (as desired).
I, for one, wouldn't want that. I do a lot of testing on my local computer, especially when I'm setting up a new effect or style change and I don't want my changes to be seen by ...

I, like some others, prefer not to build to my publish location.

Really, what seems would be useful, is if the Publish feature could be set to auto-run when you build (as desired). I'm pretty sure you can do this with command-line compiles (perhaps bbuchko could create a batch file that would ...

How would you set up classes for td and use them with a table formatted using a table stylesheet?
If you format/edit a table using a table stylesheet it will apply it's own td classes to the cells, overwriting anything you've applied manually.

You could set up your own td classes, but you'd need ...

Applying table styles is usually most effective only once you have removed all "inline" formatting. To so do:

- Click inside one of the table cells. A Table bar will appear to the right side of the table.
- Click the Table bar. A shortcut menu pops up.
- From the shortcut menu, click Select. This ...

A couple of things:

1) In response to your primary question, I think the easiest way to do it would be to create a <td> class that adds top and bottom borders. That way, you merely apply the class to all the cells you want to change, and that is much easier than manually editing each border.

2) As ...

Doh, I was hoping to avoid that since I have 9 conditions I'm already applying to separate versions for different roles and customers (I know, I know... I started out with the best reusable-content intentions and it's turning into a quagmire).

Ah well, I'll figure something out. Thanks! These ...

I'm not interested in a point-for-point debate about the merits or flaws of Vista. I'm posting because I hate seeing people give "factual" accounts which are not factual (but rather, based on anecdotes, which is fine -- but at least couch it that way).

I use Vista every day for:
- Online help ...

The problems with Vista have been greatly exaggerated. Greatly. I miss it every time I have to go to work and use XP. Were there some issues with it? Yep, pre-SP1 there were some disk copy issues (and network copy issues, I understand, though I never saw them), and anytime you change major Windows ...

We use Flare primarily for HTML Help, and are looking towards a lot more single-sourcing in the future (right now we use Word to produce print documents).

In a number of small projects, however, we've created single-source WebHelp/PDF documents with Flare. We are also using it to create a ...

I wasn't criticizing your solution, RamonS; a Word document would work just fine if the "hypertextuality" isn't a significant issue. Given that Andy001 was starting with WebHelp, I assumed a narrative document was not how the document was organized, and that perhaps a Word or PDF document would not ...

I understand they could use any htm editor to make the change but, that would cause loss of configuration control of the document.
Can you explain what you mean by "loss of configuration control"? It seems to me that Dreamweaver (or one of countless other products) would serve the need perfectly ...

Unless things have changed with the advent of 2007, I don't believe you can install multiple versions of an Office program. At least, that's what our IT team told me when I asked for 2000 + 2003.

RamonS wrote:Would that be a digital shredder for help files?

I was thinking more along the lines of a great big ray-gun that I could direct at those who have earned my wrath, but I suppose a single-source solution for shredding would be an acceptable compromise.

Hmm...I'd love to see MadCap INCINERATE.

I am going to ask my boss to buy a single-user Flare license for me within hours/days. However, I saw somewhere in these forums that Flare v 4.0 will come out this summer (i.e., it could be any time now). If we buy v 3.1 now, is there a free upgrade to v 4.0 when it comes out, or should I instead ...

Interesting approach! Ah, how I curse the day our development team decided to use keywords to create context-sensitive help (instead of header/alias files like, well, *everyone* else I've ever talked to in the industry).

I know that is the "standard" way of doing context sensitive help, however, there is nothing standard about the way the development team I am working with does this. They read in an XML file and then I assign the keys by knowing the topic url, topic id, and topic title through a custom window. They ...

Don't mind RamonS, mattbnh. He takes personal offense anytime someone uses a Microsoft product.

That's a fantastic idea...I'd love to workshop a bunch of Flare stuff, explore some of its more powerful and complicated features more fully. Of course, I couldn't get to La Jolla anytime soon, but I think it would be really interesting to form somewhat more regional groups...we could do that ...

If a relative reference of any kind in a snippet is not being automatically converted to a relative reference applicable to the target topic, then that sounds like a bug to me. I'd submit that as a bug report (assuming there isn't some solution we are missing).

Perhaps it would be accurate to say that Flare can be used with the DITA philosophy, but that it might lack some nifty tools for managing things in a DITA way? It seems to support the topic-based, chunk-based approach that people talk about in relation to DITA, and it has conditional structuring ...

On my PC it normally just takes a few seconds to finish (even in large projects), but as reported above it sometimes gets stuck and stays there forever (well, several minutes until I lose patience and press Cancel).
It's quite normal for the process to take 30 seconds or so for us in our large ...

I can only assume that it is doing more or less what it claims: creating/updating an index of all your keywords. I'm guessing that's how it populates the Index Explorer. It often pops up for me when I first start the project, and sometimes after I move topics, or I use the Index tools. Honestly, I ...

As I understand things, Silverlight and Flash are fairly similar when it comes to their UI capabilities. I'm no expert in Silverlight, but it seems like you basically have two choices:

1) Invoke something like WebHelp from with the Silverlight UI. This will take the user out of the Silverlight ...

I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but our team (4 of us) doesn't bother with source control at all. We've had very bad experiences with RoboSource Control (which was required for multi-author in RoboHelp), and don't really have the budget to get another source control package unless it is *truly ...