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I must be missing something...
Is there a way to insert table rows without using the menu command: Table>Insert>Rows Above/Rows Below.
To the left of the command, there is an icon suggesting at least a toolbar button somewhere...but I can't find it.
Or, perhaps there is a keyboard shortcut.
Thanks.

Thanks for that.

Does anyone know how to search for question marks on the Search tab in the .chm file.
The string ? searches for 1 character.
The string ?? searches for 2 characters. And so on.
Even the string "???" searches for 3 characters.
How can I search for three question marks?

(As an aside, does anybody ...

Thanks so much for the tips - excellent.

Thanks for that.
So, I guess you can choose between using Bookmarks in a topic or just having separate topics.
But, from what you say, the call from the code is the same. It's just a context number.
The thing is we have these dreadful tooltips programmed into the code - they are either too short and ...

Hi, we know how to implement context sensitive window level help, but does anybody know how to implement context senstitive field level help using Flare. Also, from the programmers side - where can I find out what needs to be added to the C++ code. Any help getting started with this appreciated.

Thanks for the info - now you explain it, it makes sense.
I think in our case, the issue was about performance - how the ongoing scanning affected performance.
As far as I can tell, the integrity of the (four) Analyzer folders was maintained.

Yippee - suggestion number 1 worked very well indeed.

Here's the TOC Properties window:

Solved it. The setting needed to be changed on Project>Project Properties.

I have now set Master Stylesheet to (default) in the Primary target.
But, still, the stylesheet is stuck on the project topics.
Believe it or not, even if I open a project file with the text editor and change the name of the stylesheet in the code (to a dummy name), the link to the stylesheet ...

That could well be it - thanks. I'll check it out.

Very strangely, my stylesheet seems to be stuck. Even if I take the line away from the code, the style remains.
Am I going mad? Is there some setting I am missing?
This screenshot shows the Topic Properties window with the stylesheet set and stuck.

We have a huge help file with plenty of niggly little errors - both in the content and in the formatting. Recently, we ran a day-long workshop to get some of it sorted. So, for a day, we were running Flare as follows:
* 4 users updating the same project at the same time
* Source project on file ...

For one of our products, we publish the release information in a .chm.
Each new release gets a topic. Each topic has about 30 H2s.
At the moment, the Table of Contents just lists the topics.
What I would like to do is list the topics and underneath each topic, its H2s.
Can anyone advise me? What ...

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense.
The original application that allowed this was FrontPage.
And, yes I know, why did we build a help system using FrontPage :-)

If you had this problem, how would you go about fixing it in Flare - what would be your procedure. I have some ideas myself, but ...

When we imported our help system from FrontPage (yes, I know) into Flare - we inherited loads of bookmarks containing spaces. I know that Flare doesn't like that - so we will sort it. One thing that is strange though is that when we preview the page from within Flare, the bookmarks work. It is only ...

That is great - thanks so much.
And then, if I wanted to add the standard text "Note" after the graphic (that is, as part of the style) - how would I do that?

In our inherited help file, all note, tip, and important boxes have been implemented as one row / two column tables - as shown here:

note.png

My question, of course, is how can I implement this as a style.

Requirements:
1) Graphic included followed by space.
2) Background shading
3) Fix the ...

After a bit of fiddling I got it working using your method 2. I needed to add 6 styles in the end - for the various row types and column types. But it worked.

It makes sense - thank you very much for taking the time.

Okay, have confirmed that this is the issue now.
The table with table style is using the main stylesheet as well.
Is there any way to stop it doing so - just for tables of course.

Yes we have plenty of table tags and border attributes in the main stylesheet.

I guess the problem we have is that we are doing a gradual migration. We, unfortunately, have loads of tables that are not connected with a table style - and we are gradually switching them over. So, until everything is ...

Hi,
Yes I have two row patterns set up and Separator is set to None for both.
I looked at the post that you linked to - I am not sure it helps. I will investigate further.
In the mean time, any other help is appreciated.

I can't seem to get my table style to work with no borders on the rows - check out the following screenshots. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is what it looks in the Table Style Editor:

preview_table_editor.png

Here is what it looks like in the preview just before I insert it - so ...