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Thanks Dave,

I am now using the paragraph option which is what I have used before and works more or less. The problem I now have is that on applying my td classes to cell (within a <p> tag) I get the formatting except that it looses the cell border. I am not setting the border in the <td> class ...

Dear Lisa,

Another big thank you for this information, yet again you have saved me time trying to work it out by myself.

Just to check: when you say "a "custom" cell in the table stylesheet" I can only see that this can be done in the Row or Column definition, so I'm unsure how it applies to a ...

Dear Lisa,

Thank you for the input. I have used your solution for situations like captions and pictures. I had hoped for a more generic "keep with next" solution, I don't want to force a page break rather I need to be confident that headings, for example will keep with their content. In Word I use ...

Steve,

Even if no office apps working the problem is there and what is more I work in exactly the same way on my desktop at home and all is ok. I suspect a config conflict but the desktop is supposedly setup the same way as my colleague who doesn't get the problem, but since it'sa work machine I ...

Dear madcaps,

My help project has an on-line element, and some associated pdf output. The user will read the on-line material and may want to print a related pdf and/or print a specific topic. The content has to be fairly carefully structured and presented. So here are my questions:

On-line ...

Dear madcaps,

I have a table styles that uses borders and has internal lines as well. Then I have several td classes to apply, these change text alignment and such like.
The problem I have encountered is that when the td classes are applied the internal for the cell disappear.

Any ideas how I can ...

Hi Steve,

Yes Word is usually running but it happens even if not. And, yes office clipboard is active. No the images should not be too large I have 3 Gb on this machine. The bottom line is it works on an adjacent similar computer but not on mine. It's a nuisance because I have to save the file ...

Dear Lisa,

Yes desktop now ok. We copied the original again and it did get there but almighty slow. It doesn't make any sense that just running a dialogue box shuold take so long. Anyway I am now OK.

Thank you......................... liz

Dear madcaps,

We had to move out Flare project files, which we have done successfully in the past. These files were copied to my "new" desktop, however when going to reset the templates folder using Tools, Manage Templates, New Folder Flare presents the egg timer ad nauseum - even went to lunch and ...

Dear madcaps,

I have this problem when using paste from the clipboard:

Failed to run command 'Paste'
Exception:
The device is not ready


I have conducted several tests:
copying within Flare itself always works
text from applications and internet using copy & paste work
images always fail ...

Hooray! Thank you!

Dear Madcaps,

Yet another dumb question I fear... I have a list and I now need to introduce a paragraph in between to list items the final thing should look like this:
[b]
User 1[/b]
....1. do A
....2. do B

[b]User 2[/b]
....3. do C
....4. do D
....5. do E

[b]User 3[/b]
....6. do F

I have used ...

Dear Madcaps,
It is very useful that if I drag a folder from content exlorer into my Toc it creates the books and topics. However if a content folder has no topics in it instead of creating a book I get Toc topics, unlinked of course since there isn't anything. What I want to do is either find a ...

Dear Madcaps,

Silly question... in the Toc what does the question mark symbol by the topic mean?
And more generally where is a guide on what all the symbols mean?

thank you.................. liz

Thank you, I have tried this but Snippets seem to want to be paragraphs. Since I want to insert this within an existing paragraph I have taken out the <p> tags. This works in the body but produces strange effects in my bullete See Also list which is a drop-down. Mind you this may be the preview ...

Dera Madcaps,

I am often linking to a file so the code is "<a href="../Resources/Linked Files/ConfigurationControlSheet.xlsx">Configuration Control Sheet.</a>".
Rather than do it every time can tgis bea variable? I couldn't see how... or perhaps thaere is another way?

Thank you ...

Dear Mapcaps,

I have a powerpoint presentation which is the basis of something I want to include in a Flare project. I think I need to use Mimic but am unsure. This is what I need:

I have a complex diagram that will build up over several pages (frames)
each "page" will add more and sometime ...

Dear Bruce,

I am a business analyst and like you have worked with many projects using many methodolgies but essentially producing the same stuff, or at least similarly structured information. I am interested in how you used relationship tables since I haven't ventured into this area, but reading ...

Dear Shulif,

I have never found a Flare function to do this. However you could add a class to the <span> tag and/or the <p> tag and use the text-transform property (in the Font group), the values are:
none No capitalization. The text renders as it is. This is default
capitalize Transforms the ...

Dear Madcaps,

I know several ways of doing this but would lilke some advice on the best apprach.

I have a table to which I have applied one of my table styles. I have columns like this:
one column with the left hand heading
severa1 columns with "ticks or crosses
two columns wth other text in ...

The project resides on C:
May be MS patches I haven't tried on the other machine yet. However I can't believe that I am the only person have applied them and using Flare

Hi Lisa,

The point is that I have been using paste since 2009. I have the latest version in which, until last week, paste always worked. I have two machines and paste works on one but not the other. So somewhere there must be something now stopping it but I don't know where to look and what to ...

I now have another slightly different problem. On pasting from the clipboard i get:
Failed to run command 'Paste'
Exception:
The device is not ready

I have conducted several tests:
copying within Flare itself always works
text from applications and internet using copy & paste work
images ...

no wonder I couldn't find it! thank you

Dear madcaps,

I want to split an existing table into two tables. what would be the best way of doing this?

Thank you.................... liz