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Check your stylesheet, too, and make sure you didn't set a width or height value on the <img> tag.

You can import multiple Word docs into one project. You can either select multiple Word files and import them using one MS Word import file, or you can create an import file for each Word file. It doesn't matter if you import the Word files immediately after creating the project or if you create the ...

Does your project reside on your local computer or on a network shared drive? If it's on a network drive then network traffic may be slowing you down. And if you're running a program like Photoshop where you can specify the amount of RAM is claims, then you may need to lower the default amount.

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You should try to only use <strong> or <em> tags for ad hoc formatting, where you just want a particular word to have emphasis.
Now if only there were a way to change the b and i icons in the Flare toolbar so that they generate strong and em tags, respectively, instead of b and i , which aren't ...

A DIV is a container tag, but it's really flexible. It can contain multiple tags (<p>, <ul>, <blockquote>, etc.), but because they're in the DIV tag then they're in effect grouped. So if you move the DIV, everything inside it is moved, too, instead of having to move each one individually.

In ...

Interesting. I wonder why it had a problem with that style. Unless it's set to a level 1 instead of body text or something like that.

Anyway, FYI... In Flare, if you want the same effect, you should be able to specify a margin-top and margin-bottom property to the <table> tag to get the same ...

When I import my Word document no errors are presented, but no topics are created for anything that follows the first table encountered.
Do you have headers separating the content in the document?

Header1
Normal (text)
{table}
Header1
Header2
Normal (text)

Or do you not have headers separating ...

I agree with Dave's suggestion. If you have Word 2007, then you can create a PDF directly from within Flare. If you have Word 2003, then you'll have to output from Flare as a Word file and then convert the Word file to a PDF. You can also generate WebHelp or HTML Help from the same source files.

I've gotten that message before, too, but I can't remember what causes it. When you try to indent, are you selecting text or do you just have the cursor flashing on the line with nothing selected? If you have selected text, then you may have inadvertently grabbed the end tag of the previous line ...

Well, technically, Flare does recognize the display: none property -- in online output. Word doesn't use display settings like that. I believe you could set text to be hidden, but that's not a CSS element. It's similar to a CSS element (display: none), but it's not actually a CSS element. I haven't ...

My intent was to shut off areas of the topic pages that look good in the HTML Help viewer but don't make any sense in a document that will be a series of pages.
For this situation, you probably want to use conditional tags. For instance, I sometimes put graphics in a topic with two different ...

A better solution would be to create print-only versions of the styles. Or create online-only and print-only styles instead of using the \"default\" style. If you create online-only then it goes into one \"medium\" in the stylesheet, and if you create print-only then it goes into another \"medium ...

If you are using the Indent and Outdent icons to move items in a list, will items in the second layer of a list still be on an li tag?
Enclosed by an <li> tag, yes. See how the innermost <li> tags are inside a <ul> tag which is inside an <li> tag.

<ul>
<li>List 1, line 1</li>
<li>List 1, line ...

If you're not accessing the XML files from within Flare (and therefore it won't try to add its own schema code to the top of the page), then try creating a folder inside the Resources folder. I don't think the Resources folder is processed the same way that the topic files are processed. As a test ...

Maybe you need to add the MadCap xmlns tag to the beginning of the XML file???

Try resetting your window layout. I think that brings the Start Page back. If it does, then close Flare and reopen it. If the error occurs again, then reset the window layout, close the Start Page tab, shut down Flare and restart it. It should open without trying to open the Start Page.

Haven't tried this (and I don't have Flare running to test it), but try setting the color on the <ul> tag to red and set the color on the <li> tag to black. Since <ul> versus <ol> specifies whether you're using a bullet versus a number, then the bullet style should be pulled from the <ul> tag and ...

I haven't played with the feature yet, but I remember reading about some new feature for setting up print styles for tables. You'll have to look in the Flare help for more info. That might help a bit. I have a feeling, though, that when you set up the print version, you'll have to specify an inch ...

Putting the colors in the stylesheet is fine (I also recommend it), but you're forgetting the part where you have to set the colors in the stylesheet. You have to click on the field to bring up the color chips, and this is what nsemple would like to populate with custom colors. So even if nsemple's ...

It kind of depends on how big the image is in relation to the text. If it's a relatively small icon, then you can do it by creating a custom <li> style and setting it to use an image for the bullet. When you're ready to use it in a topic, click on the list icon to go into a list, then click on the ...

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I had to make sure that the p class had all necessary formats (such as page-break-before) by adding it using the internal text editor. The Style Editor (default view of the stylesheet) does not list these kinds of format settings for a p class.
Actually, it does. If you have "Assorted Relevant ...

Oooh, I love finding new tricks.

mwmartz, this might do something of what you want, but you'll have to play with it a bit and test it thoroughly, since I just did a quick test of WebHelp output. I should also mention that this worked in Firefox but not IE6. I don't have IE7 installed, so I can't ...

I've haven't tried yet, but can one search for and replace every occurence of a style (sigh)?
There are some who've had luck with this in some cases, but I don't think it'll work that easily in your situation. If your list came over as p.list, for example, then you could do a global find-and ...

But again, that's going to apply the style inline to that tag in that topic and not make it available to the other topics. At least, not without opening a topic, copying the style, opening the topic you want to apply it to, then applying it to the appropriate spot, then saving the topic, then ...