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ok... here's what the problem seemed to be... i had created a whole chunk of text... formatted it with headings, paragraphs.. all my tags, etc... then selected it and converted it to drop-down... all my formats held.. all was well.

BUT... when i went to ADD more chunks to that section, I couldn't ...

Is there any chance you can upload your stylesheet here? It's possible that the mc-hidden or display properties may have been changed to make the headings disappear.

You can upload the file using the "Upload Attachment" option below the text-box when posting a new reply.


Hi Ryan...

yep... me ...

So verify that the heading tags are defined in the stylesheet file associated with that topic and that the XML Editor isn't set to show a custom medium. Those are the only ways I can think of why the heading tags wouldn't be appearing. THIS WAS A GREAT IDEA... as i've had issues with this in the ...

Yep.. i tried left clicking without highlighting.. same result as before.. still all p tags only.

and i DO have heading tags as shown in my attachment.. i just can't get to them from that area of the topic!

thanks tho for trying...

OK.. i'm SURE there has to be an easy way to do this... and i just haven't figured it out for some reason...

I know how to change text with a paragraph tag/class to another paragraph tag/class...

but there are times when i can't get the "tag" to switch.. in that sometimes i have something with a ...

that's a great idea! THANKS!

I'm not sure how prevalent the problems are in IE 7.. only noticed a few things so far.. and mostly minor enough that we can live with it for now.. unfortunately, we are sorta stuck with IE7 for our product... Firefox won't be an option for our clients...

As for the ruler.. I was actually working ...

We have been noticing a few issues when viewing projects in IE... some of the formatting doesn't show up, etc... whereas it does in Firefox (e.g., rulers)...

Has anyone else noticed this sort of issue between the two browsers?

Just curious/wondering...

Just thought I'd pass on the result of all this... couldn't get the jump to work the way i needed it to... so I contacted Tech Support... and Alvaro (great guy) helped us figure it out.. and it turns out that any time youw ant to do something like this, it requires a "call" in the script.. so the ...

THAT DID IT.. THANKS!

Originally, any time i did something in Flare that caused a message to come up, it appeared at the bottom of the screen.. out of the way... annoying but at least out of the way for the time being... I apparently did something.. so now the dang messages window comes up in the Explorer pane... and i ...

So.. we are trying to test our online help project before it gets too far... we need to see how it is going to work and look in our Web application... so before the Developers look at it, I need to test it inside the project.. which I did according the online help instructions below... HOWEVER ...

OK... as a final chapter (hopefully) in THIS particular table saga... i thought i'd post the final resolution that had to be reached by MadCap Support... an awesome gentleman there asked to send him a copy of my project to see if he could see what was causing the problem(s)... that wasy late Friday ...

no.. i haven't even been able to figure out how to get my master page to properly apply to my project (the breadcrumb issue i posted the other day)... and i've built the project MANY dozens of times since creating THAT page... and i haven't touched it in a few days now..

i wish it were something ...

well.. that's SORT of what i thought originally... but with my inability to fix the link or find the problem in the code... i thought it MUST be something more i did.. and those were the only things i could think of that i've changed in the files... i just can't figure this out..

btw... thanks for ...

yep... i'm looking at the topic that uses these styles the most (i think it's the only one that has most of these styles).. and i have another topic that uses the INVISIBLE style.. so i'll look at that.. I keep thinking it has to do with TableStyles vs TableClass vs Cell Content Style vs Cell Class ...

i have looked and looked.. and i just can't figure out where the links are missing... see attached caps from the Style.css - which shows the styles that appear as missing... perhaps/probably i did something wrong when creating these... but if so.. how do i relink them.. i'm just not getting this ...

OK.. I ran Analyzer.. and it just shows those same 5 errors... fixed 3 of the errors which were just plain broken links from one topic to another. but I still have the TableStyles errors.. 2 of them.. and have no clue how to fix those broken links... when i double click on them, they take me to the ...

Have not moved ANYTHING... so yep... that's where my project is... which is why i thought the errors were so weird!

I've never used Analyzer.. really forgot it was there and never really knew what it was for.. i'm giving it a go right now... so we shall see..

thanks!

yes... I've used all those styles and style sheets.. but i haven't deleted ANYTHING.. if anything I've been keeping copies for backingup...

when i look at my content explorer in my Resources>TableStyles folder... all those styles are right there...

and i only have the one Style.css stylesheet ...

OK.. I'm back... AGAIN...

And now, some how, I've got missing source files and table styles - but i'm not sure how this happened... and not sure how to fix it...

When I look for the sources and tables it says it's missing... I see them there... I'm not sure how to reset the links.. I reapply them ...

doy! EXCELLENT IDEA.. i've backed up all the others.. but not that one! lol

thanks! AAAGGGAAAIINNN!

Just a quick follow up...

Looks like I successfully (knock on wood) copied over all my working p and h styles/classes from the old css to the replacement... i didn't copy over ANY table stuff... I figured I'd just recreate those as I didn't want to bring in ANYTHING that might recreate the problem ...

I sorta cheated and went ahead and started pretty much what you suggested... but haven't backed up the replacement.. which i shall now do.. IMMEDIATELY!

fortunately, I don't have TOOO many classes to add... maybe 10 or so.. so shouldn't be a problem

THANKS SOOOO SOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!

apparently... you are still a genius!

so I did a "save as" of the "bad" CSS from Notepad... renamed it and put it in a folder outside the project... then i copied the Stylesheet.css file (without opening it.. just copied the file, and pasted it into my screwed up project)... so now the tables look ...