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... and judging by the comments, the natives aren't happy about it....
The trainer part of my CV tells me most people don't like change - some of us can make a living out of it. :wink:

I've avoided adding my thoughts until now, because I like the ribbon. I find Office 07 far better to use.

I'm ...

Have you tried the keywordlink section in the stylesheet? If you open the stylesheet editor in simple mode you should see any class etc that has a red colour.

That isn't what you need to do, the keywordLink style is for the keyword link help control.

Changing the index hover colour is very ...

Have you tried the keywordlink section in the stylesheet? If you open the stylesheet editor in simple mode you should see any class etc that has a red colour.

LTinker68 wrote:Rumor is, there's an Easter egg, too. It's an animation of the paddles whacking the heck out of a kadov tag.

...I'd like to see that....

Copy and paste anyway and fix the formatting in the Flare topic (for small amounts of text).
I normally use this method - it allows me to apply the format I need as well as paragraph breaks, soft returns, lists, etc.

It's much the same as pasting in Word and using Paste Special -> Unformatted ...

KevinDAmery wrote:...I'm leaving them in until someone who controls my pay cheque makes a really *really* big stink over it....

I couldn't agree more - it's a usability thing for me.

LTinker68 wrote:

SteveS wrote:You need before and after pseudo elements:

I thought it was tied into them somehow, but I couldn't remember how.

Had the Lie/ Bos Cascading Style Sheets - Designing for the Web book open in front of me at the time...

Kevin,
Tried it, but no dice. Thanks for the response. The search continues. My web guy here says he has never seen such an animal, but I swear that I've run across it, just can't remember where (and not necessarily in Flare).

-Matt

You need before and after pseudo elements:
p.note:before ...

LTinker, you win the stuffed teddy bear again. Thanks, this worked.

Matt
Just in case there's a consolation prize...

I'm doing something similar for comment topics:
comment.JPG
I then apply a conditional tag (called, funnily enough, "comment") that gets excluded from everything except my ...

And make sure you get .NET 2.0 in that Boot Camp partition. Vista came with .NET 3.0, which I believe works with Flare. I can't remember if XP came with .NET, but if it did, it was probably .NET 1.0. Flare requires .NET 2.0. So you may not have had the correct version of .NET and that's why Flare ...

Do you have access to the Blaze beta? I haven't had time to play with it, but I think this is exactly the sort of thing that Blaze and Flare 4 should be able to do. Could be worth looking, at least.

That was my thought - the columns feature should be great.

But in the meantime we have to work ...

Why not create an empty image with just a border?

Use that as your "notes" area. You may have to play with your style sheet to get it to work, but it should work in principle.

HTH

I hear ya..i guess we're at the same stage...i am just beginning to start generating and tooling around with the templates again after stabilizing the content.

If your content is stable, copy the project and play around with the copy. I found when I first started doing the formatting I got in all ...

I'd make sure you have the latest .net drivers - you may even have to uninstall and reinstall to be sure.

As RamonS said, you can rum Mimic on the virtual machine. I do that (more with Capture) so I can catch windows within the virtual machine - if you run Mimic/ Capture on the main PC it doesn't ...

tomjohnson1492 wrote:I want this feature too. Just putting my voice in here.

Although Madcap support actively monitor these forums, you should enter bugs and enhancements at: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

Welcome, Pat.

We won't give you too hard a time.

Yet.

Hi Scott,

Just in case - welcome to the forums.

You have 2 options for single file distribution - printed (pdf/Word) or "compiled" html (chm).

DotNet help does have an internal directory structure.

I've created a series of instructional blogs about using masterpages.

http://stevesalter.net/WordPress/

Pity no-one liked the original pink theme...

Several options:

Use the "quick character" option to see if the formula componets are there.

Create an image containing the formula.

Use <pre>formula</pre> to preserve the formatting and "build" the formula manually.

Use alt codes - http://www.coloryourprofyle.com/phade/alt.html is one of many ...

I'd think very carefully about using source control. Most people who are forced to use it find it can be frustrating. It may be because they're forced to use it, or it may be that some source control systems are made by programmers for programmers.

If you are only using it for back up, and not ...

Hi Vinnie,

Welcome to the forums.

Unfortunately you've hit the nail on the head - import it all to Flare and build, or build all your projects to word and combine in Word.

I don't know the layout of your projects, but given Word's (sometimes) erratic behaviour, I'd look to see if you can do it in ...

Hi Orit,

Welcome to the forums.

I find a lot of the time that exceptions are caused by the dotNet framework - a reboot can sometimes work wonders.

I also make a habit of deleting previous content whenever i build. You can do this using the Project -> Clean Project Output menu commands.

I've had ...

On Monday I deleted all my Flare registry entries (wonderful coincidence, that)...

Yes, the startup dialog is for interface language which you can opt out of. Choices are English, French, German, and Japanese.

You can re-enable the dialog via tools -> options -> general and choose the show select ...

....that's it for things I can think of.

Maybe SQL Express isn't running.

Right Click Computer on the start menu (if you double click it will open windows explorer) and select manage . Expand Services and Applications and select Services . Make sure the Extended tab is selected on the right pane - and because MS is a right pain they've ...