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Thanks, that document is helpful, and I'd completely missed it.

However, I'd still like to be able to apply specific styles with a keystroke command. For example, in Word and Frame I use a lof CTRL+ALT commands for this purpose. CTRL+ALT+B applys BodyText, CTRL+ALT+2 applies Heading2, and so on ...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can we have user definable keystroke commands for applying styles? I have this in Word, and in Frame with Rick Quatro's ShortcutKeys addin. It is driving me up the wall having to apply styles from a list. It slows me down by an order of magnitude. And my wrist is getting sore ...

Is it possible to have Flare display the list of styles without showing the styles as they actually appear. All I want is a nice compact list of styles - I don't need to have my Heading1 styles displayed in 24 point blue Arial in the list. Just the name would be fine, thank you.

This is a ...

I am trying to get my PDF target set up so that the headings used in the front matter appear in the header of the page but not in the TOC. Basically, we use a PrefaceHaading style for sections in the front matter, including the "Contents" heading above the TOC. I would like to include the first ...

Thank you! Don't know how I could have missed trying that.

Keith

I need to place our company logo in a page footer. I want to have it sized to be exactly .5" high. In Word this is simple - I just set the height in the Format Picture dialog box and Word sets the height and adjusts the width to maintain the proper aspect ratio.

Flare doesn't maintain the aspect ...

I live in Canada and dealing with ordering through Lulu with cross-border shipping is a hassle. Is it possible to buy the book as a PDF or other e-book format?

Thanks
Keith

I am trying to get a different format for my tables in the online (WebHelp) and PDF targets. In my WebHelp, I have a table style (Format_A), set up with a header row with a light blue background and rows with alternating white and light grey backgrounds. This seems to be working OK (although it ...

Thanks, Rick! That looks straightforward enough.

Regards
Ketih

In my current WebWorks Help projects, I have a toolbar button that the user can click to open a PDF version of the help. The developers like this because they don't have to add a separate Help menu item for the PDF.

I'd like to set this up in my WebHelp projects. How do I do it?

...the Expand All and Collapse All buttons don't work.
That would depend on what you're expecting them to do. They don't expand and collapse the TOC. What they do is expand all drop-down effects in the currently visible topic, and possibly all togglers, expanding text, and other similar effects in ...

I have fixed the problem I was having with the Previous/Next topic buttons in my project. The project was created by importing a FrameMaker book. According to Madcap support: "The problem is caused by the links in the TOC being to bookmarks. Word and Frame both insert these bookmarks from their own ...

I've fiddled with the monitor setttings and I now have the alternate shading showing up on the 2nd monitor. I need to tweak it a bit more to get the two monitors as close as I can, but fiddling with the gamma settings in the Nvidia control panel seems to do the trick.

Both monitors are set to the ...

Before you do, check the colour depth of the output to the second monitor in the Windows display settings. If it's 16 bits (64 thousand colours or thereabouts) the difference between the shades may not be noticable. You want it to be 24 bits (16.7 million colours) or 32 bits (I don't remember how ...

Well, a couple of problems are solved.

I now have my style sheets updating properly, after setting up my project not to use linking. Changes I make are reflected when I rebuild.

The other issue, with table shading not displaying turns out to be a hardware problem. I have a dual monitor setup and I ...

When I build WebHelp, I always delete the output folder before building. Sometimes browsers (IE in particular) don't pick up the new styles and load everything from the cache. Deleting the output folder before building tricks the browser into thinking it's going to a new site and will load ...

Well, I thought I had it fixed. I went into the Target settings editor and made sure that I had linking back to the source files turned off. But that's not it.

What I am seeing now is that I have settings in my style sheet that are displaying properly if I choose View Compiled Topic, but are not ...

The only other reason, then, that your styles aren't "sticking" is that there are inline styles defined in the topics that are overriding your stylesheet. Open one of the topics in the Internal Text Editor and see if there are inline styles in some of the tags.

By inline styles, do you mean ...

I just have one style sheet - the one created for the project when I did the import.

As for mediums, I am using the default medium for the moment. When I start setting up my print formats, I'll either set up a print medium or create a separate style sheet and link it to the PDF target - I'm not ...

I have been trying to build an initial style sheet from a project that I created by importing a FrameMaker book. I've run into enough problems with the process that it's made me question my sanity, or at least my decision to move to Flare.

I'm finding that changes that I make in the style sheet ...

If you have version 4.x or higher, then you can copy the table and when you click paste you can specify what you want done with the content. I don't have it running at the moment, so I can't remember if it has an option that's close to the convert to text feature in Word. You might lose the spacing ...

Well, I removed the variables from the TOC, and now my WebHelp previous and next buttons work as expected. The project was never in Frame at all.

K

I just tried that and it didn't make any difference. I had two variables in my TOC.

And to add insult to injury, the Expand All and Collapse All ...

I believe this happens when your TOC entry is linked to a bookmark instead of a topic.

I am working with a project which was imported from a FrameMaker book and the TOC was created from the book's structure on import. In this case, do you know if Flare links the TOC via bookmarks? Could that be ...

According to tech support, the bug is that you cannot have a variable within a TOC entry. That solved the problem!

K

So I only have a couple of topics that have variables. But the Previous/Next buttons don't work past the click in any of my topics. So are you saying that having just one variable ...

I am having the same problem with the Previous/Next buttons mentioned by other posters.

I am creating a new project from a short FrameMaker book. The Previous and Next buttons only move forward one topic from the selected topic, then stop. This is not the behaviour I'd expect, nor would my users ...