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Out of curiosity, why footnotes? Why not pop-up text or something along those lines? If it's a print output issue, there is a setting in targets to convert text pop-ups (or expanding text) to footnotes.

In other words, pretend the ribbon isn't there and build your own toolbar? (sorta like you would in Office 2003?)
Sort of. It depends on what you do with Word, I suppose. I just leave the stuff in the Home tab there, and then start adding the features that I had to often hunt-n-peck through tabs ...

The best way to mitigate the ribbon hunt-n-peck (I had the same issue) is to add all of your most commonly-used tools to the Shortcut bar. They are much easier to access that way -- even with very simple keyboard shortcuts. On the bad side, the icons are very small and often hard to recognize, but ...

Simplest way I know is to put the cursor in the table cell and press Enter. That will add <p> tags to both lines in the cell. Then just backspace to remove the extra line, and the <p> tag stays. Then you can select any style <p> you want.

Just to emphasize, the instructions in the linked KB article are only applicable to Flare v1. Any more recent version of Flare has a dialog under File > Recent Projects > Manage Recent Projects that enables you to remove projects from the Recent Projects list.

Sounds like RoboHelp and Flare ? :)
I assume you meant that ironically -- while there are a couple of issues that Flare handles significantly worse than RoboHelp did (ease of getting to exactly the topic you need in your project, both to open it, and to link to it, for example), I find that, in ...

forfear wrote:PS. To remove inline styles in the Table quickly, on the Text Formatting toolbar, clickthe Unformat command.

I think I love you. I didn't even realize that button was there, and it appears to perfectly solve my problem. Thanks forfear!

Our main Flare project is about 6000 topics. The hardest thing about managing that many topics in Flare is that it's difficult to change things on a broad scale. And since this is a conversion from RH, it's got inline-styled tables everywhere...ugh. We're trying to slowly replace them with Table ...

The ribbon can't be turned off.

As for my evaluation of the ribbon:

It's a mixed bag. Some thing I really like -- for example, I think "operationalizing" icons (i.e., instead of clicking a single button to do a single thing, have the button's form better follow its use), and making the buttons ...

While it's not really their intended use, you could use conditional tags to do this. Create conditional tags for each of empty, partly complete, and complete (you can choose whatever color you want for them), and then assign them to topics as you desire. Just remember to include them (or, rather, do ...

Looks like they are really going the route of full CMS solution. Should be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Oh, and the v4 Master Project Linking stuff sure sounds sexy; hope it lives up to its potential!

For it to be paging during normal "typing" type use, you'd have to either have very little RAM (less than 1GB), or a very large topic/project. I'd be surprised if that were the problem.

How long does it freeze? How often? I assume if you'd divined a pattern, you would have mentioned that, so I'm ...

You know, I can't believe I've never noticed that.

The reason you'd want to use spans instead of b, u, and i tags goes further into the push for XML standards: content and style are completely separated. There are entire books on this subject, but the general idea is that you can take the same single content file and only change the style ...

When I build our primary project in Flare on my home machine (dual-core 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM), its memory usage rockets into the 1-1.5 GB range (that's 1000-1500 megabytes). It's never seemed to cause any slowness (though the build process itself is very slow -- nearly twice as long as it took RoboHelp ...

Is Flare aware of the /3GB switch? If the app isn't aware, I'm pretty sure it's limited to 2GB.

I didn't have many problems with RoboHelp crashing. Flare crashes much more often than RH did, in my experience. But the crashes really have very little effect on my work.

The RoboSource Control server, on the other hand, drove me insane. I created a template in our IT case logging software just so ...

The problem will only get worse as your project grows larger. RAM is most likely to be holding you back. Unless your drive is ridiculously fragmented, it's unlikely to be a problem.

You guys all have such wonderful systems for production work. :shock: I'm stuck between an oldish Terminal Server ...