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Where does this override come from? The table header in the FrameMaker source file does not have any overrides, both cells use the same paragraph format. (The table header row has a coloured background and white text in FrameMaker if that helps.)

In my experience, FrameMaker can sometimes have ...

See http://weblog.helpware.net/?p=36
My guess is you are getting #2, you'll need to tell people to unblock the CHM

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Greg

Magic eh! That's what I love about Flare, you can easily add targets (and the defaults are also very sensible). You can very quickly demonstrate a variety of print and online formats to impress even the most sceptical of pointy-haired bosses

For me, using Flare 4.1, Frame 8, Acrobat 7, Flare successfully copies across referenced GIFs, maintaining the filenames. My graphics properties in FrameMaker are Scale 75%, 96 DPI

I've had problems similar to you when:
- there is an odd DPI setting (e.g. 300) in FrameMaker. 96 is best for online ...

As a tip, try tweaking your CSS in the final output, rather than within Flare. Use a firefox addon like web developer or firebug to test some of your output HTML files. A useful feature (for web developer, I haven't tried firebug but imagine it is the same) is to edit the CSS on the fly via a split ...

I read something interesting in the help regarding columns and the index. For word or frame output, you can edit the index proxy to get multiple columns to appear. For PDF output, you have to do this via page layouts. So it looks like multiple columns are available for frame/word, but only for the ...

Just got a reply from Madcap, saying that page layouts were designed mainly for PDF and XPS, and not every feature is available for Word and Frame output. That includes columns

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Greg

Just a thought, but could you roll your own glossary? By that, I mean create a separate topic with a list of glossary terms and add it to the TOC. Then in the skin, clear the check box to create an accordian item/TOC entry for the glossary. That would give you more control as you could have multiple ...

Analyzer is your friend. Project>Add Report FIle, and select All unused items.

HTH!

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Greg

I've had success before with FreeUndelete (well free for personal use anyway)
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/index.htm

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Greg

Add a report to the project, select the table: TOC- Primary Target, and click Generate. From there you can open the report in a browser, and save as text, or copy to word etc.

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Greg

Is this the kind of help you mean?
http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... 20Help.htm

The Robohelp glossary tab I think is created using a special DLL file (that your app must install and register), along with Javascript within the CHM. This is not available within Flare.

You can select the glossary "feature" in the skin, this adds the glossary to the TOC 1st level in HTML help ...

Another option is to have two paragraph stlyes, one for the word "Purpose", and one for the following paragraph(s)
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Greg

(error on opening HTM files)
1) From Windows Explorer, folder options > files types > HTM, click Advanced and make sure the "open" string references Ultraedit and has %1 appended to the end.

(program not appearing in Flare's list)
2) The list in Flare is populated from the following location in the ...

Kia ora Jenny, kei te pehea koe?

Open the file in Ultaedit and take a look at the status bar. If it says U8-DOS, it is enoced as UTF-8. If it says U-DOS, then it is UTF-16

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Greg

It works fine for me (Flare 4.1). I defined a new class under "a" in the stylesheet (e.g. DarkGreen), and selected the DarkGreen style when inserting the topic popup.

When building HTML help, Flare creates a new class in ...SkinSupport\MadCap.css called "a.MCPopupSpot_DarkGreen" with my defined ...

If possible, find out what they are developing Flare on at Madcap, and use the same setup. That is probably what Flare will be the most stable on - developers will fix bugs they find on their own PCs first and foremost...

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Greg

Have a read through this from the Ultraedit help, it may help understand what is going on:
Unicode and UTF-8 Support
UltraEdit provides support for Unicode (16-Bit wide character) files, and for UTF-8 files and allows direct editing of Unicode files and UTF-8 files as well as conversion routines ...

Have a look at the "Flare Tables and Styles" demo put out by tech support
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/support.aspx

Note: if you are having problems viewing this, install the GoToMeeting codec http://www.gotomeeting.com/codec

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Greg

Not too sure in this example, but usually a "half selected" check box means the option is controlled on some other level (e.g. another option per topic or via CSS).It is neither enabled, or explcitly disabled.

Sounds like a sensible approach. Another possible way is to use the Javascript method of linking to your help. The developers only need to specify the ID, rather than the full URL. This may give you more options, for example, if the user ends up installing 2 or more applications at the same time ...

OK, so I may be out of line here. If so please whack me over the head with a large stick :) Maybe this is common in software development teams.
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I've spent rather a large amount of time as of late with things that were working suddenly not in later versions. One example is http://forums ...

To help troubleshoot, can you include your CSS code for anything referencing (for example p. or img. ): "box", "title", and "note"

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Greg

You can also have a go at this using CSS. The styles might look like: Cheers
Greg