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The results pane can be found under the menu option: Edit > Find and Replace > and the results 1 and 2 are at the bottom of the list.

Something extra to check ...
You can have timing problems if the index mode is turned on. And I have heard the concept entry mode causes similar problems. There are flags on the menu at:
Tools > Options > WYSIWYG panel, that let you get a warning if either of these modes is turned on,
or you can ...

First up, the "... topic excluded..." messages are really warnings, not errors, so you can ignore them and your project will work if you have purposely excluded the information.

But if there are too many errors it can be annoying. How many targets do you need? There are a few choices.

If you just ...

You can use it to assign a heading level, but I have to admit I have not tried that in a real project. I think the idea is you can set your H1 to be like a section heading, then you would set H2 to have level 1 and so on down the list. Anything with level 1 is listed in the TOC as para style TOC 1 ...

You can set the "mc-heading-level" in the style sheet to 0 for those styles that you don't want to be included in the output TOC.

When Flare generates headings with auto-numbering into Word, it actually hard codes the number, which is a pity. This means that the whole line including the number is picked up in the running header.

There is a work-around, but it needs some post-processing. I often generate Word documents without ...

tana asked
I have a question about the process you use...


The automatic number generation happens at the developers end. Any time a new screen is added, a unique ID is generated and added to the .H file. This file contains the identifiers and map numbers, plus a generated comment using the ...

If you have "phantom" alias entries, you can remove them manually.
Open the alias file in a text editor.
Find the line with a phantom entry.
Delete the line - you need to take out the whole "map" entry fro "<MAP name..." up to the closing " />"

As for header files to developers, you can add in ...

Autonumbering - one more view

The thing that confused me for a while was what is a label and what is a counter. When I sorted that I got stuff to work. Here is my scenario:

I want heading levels 1-3 to have numbers (1., 1.1, 1.1.1)
I don't have any special sections or chapters or volumes, or ...

Look in Tools > Options > WYSIWYG tab. There is a "Mode warnings ..." frame - I have cleared all these options and have not had an Index problem for quite some time.

What version of Flare are you using? For the CSS issue, there was a problem in v3.1 with CHMs and stylesheets that caused the default sheet to be attached for projects that had worked in earlier versions. You need to apply the patch and clear the checkbox on the Target Advanced tab.

Have a look at ...

Also have a look at the options on the "Printed Output" tab of your target. Is "Inject headings for unlinked books" set? If it is, clear it and try again. This option is really only useful when used in conjunction with the setting to use the TOC depth to create heading levels.

It's not clear exactly what headers you are clicking on. Maybe we can work out what you want with a few possible suggestions ...

If you mean you want the topic title or file name to show at the top of each page, you can add variables to your master page - select "Insert > Variable ..." and have a ...

How are your headers and footers set up, as paragraphs or tables? The default print master page puts them into tables, which is harder to move in Word margins. I've created a paragraph class (p.header - you might need left and right) and made the margin-left property a negative number (-2cm in my ...

What RH does is put in an inline style with a left margin value - for example:

<p style="margin-left: 40px;">abc</p>

This translates as-is into Flare when you import. When you press tab in Flare the first option is to insert a blockquote, which is probably cleaner html.

It is initially ...

That could be the problem - here is a similar thread from last year.

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... ml+display

I think Kevin commented on this in another thread. Yes, when importing from RH, the images stay in the same place they were in RH. An images folder in Resources is only created when you import from Word, but you can create this manually. I don't see this as a problem, and no, you did nothing wrong ...

You can do this automatically. You can add a file to an existing project using "Import > Add Word document..." instead of creating a whole new project.

On the "New Topic Styles" tab, select Heading 1 to be the place to break new topics.

On the "Options" tab, clear the split long topics and Avoid ...

If we can vote on this, I'd choose to import from RH where I could, and add a smaller Word file later, rather than all from Word.

My reasons? Styles!

Bullets and Numbered lists, and table styles don't transfer from Word as well as I'd like (most end up as a p.something). Lists within lists are ...

If it's CHMs you are using this sounds more like a problem with display for which there is now a patch. What version are you using? The following patch is for v3:

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_csh.htm#PATF3103

There are also a few threads about this in the HTML section of this forum.

If ...

Was this problem ever solved? Is there a patch?

I haven't heard of a patch. I have re-imported successfully when I select every topic to be overwritten (would be time consuming for big projects), or when I first delete all the existing topics, and they get regenerated. At this stage I don't do ...

I can chime in but not be very helpful. We imported many RH version X5 projects into Flare, with hundreds of tables, with no major problems. (our column widths were 20/80%, not 30/70 :-))

I had a quick look at the code - the RH topics had the column measurements at the table level AND in each <td ...

For reference, it has something to do with the scripts RH used to do pop-ups, and how "windows" in RH are converted to skins in Flare. Removing the reference to the script from the code solved the problem for us - has the same affect as copy/paste to a new topic.

These files all appear to contain the script "ehlpdhtm.js". Will I damage the project by removing this script from the topics?

You can remove this file, and references to it without causing damage. It was generated by RH and contains scripts for dynamic html - like pop-ups and rollovers etc ...

I think I can repeat the “errors” – it’s all in how you insert the hyperlink.

What works as expected:
If you select text , then drag and drop, or choose Insert hyperlink, then the dialog is displayed with the selected text in the “Link Text” box. Quick link works here, but skips the ...