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here's how the code looks in one of the topics with a messed up table:

<table class="TableStyle_Basic" style=" margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="TableStyle_Basic_Head_0_0_RowSep_ColSep">In this field..</th>
<th class="TableStyle_Basic_Head_0_0 ...

ok.. i pasted the table info from the sample project (with working tables) into the current project (without working tables) - no luck.. didn't change anything.

ok.. so when i look at the main CSS. (Styles.css), under "table", i see this:

table.NOTE
{
font-family: Arial;
background-color: #cccccc;
border-top: double 3pt;
font-size: 9pt;
border-spacing: 0;
padding-left: 0pt;
text-align: left;
}

table
{
background-color: #ffffff;

so i'm wondering ...

try changing one table to use a different table style (I see from your screen shot that you have 4 to choose from - switch to any of the others). If the table width is correct after you do that, then the problem is in your table style.

When i select ANY table in that list of 4, they all show this ...

ok... so i was going along beautifully with tables yesterday.. then something happened and they are all screwed up now... attached is the "Insert Table" dialog... if you look at the "Preview" area.. you'll see some sort of text about "table cell outside table", etc... this is how ALL my tables now ...

nevermind.. i figured this one out on my own.. FOR A CHANGE.... and yes.. i found where to make the margin change with the image associated to a paragraph class.

I know you are all shocked that i figured something out on my own.. ME TOO!

THANKS!

btw... have you found this to be the best way to indent images as well? I have trouble using a paragraph setting for that.

What you need to do is open the topic in a text editor and remove any margin code that you find in the table tag. Now, if this sounds tedious and unnecessary, I'd say you're right. There is no reason that I can think of why they should do it this way, but they do

WOOOHOOO... IT WORKED! THANK YOU ...

I would go to the Table tag in the main stylesheet (not one of the table stylesheets) and adjust the Margin-left attribute.

You can also create classes of the Table tag if you need to use different left margin numbers for different tables. Then you just apply the appropriate class to each table ...

Is there a way to indent tables - other than changing alignment from left to center, etc..?

I've been trying to find a setting and don't see anything that looks like it will do the trick. I looked thru this thread and i see information about spacing and such.. but don't see where the "indenting ...

so i followed the online help about how to have breadcrumbs in my help... it instructed me to create a master page with breadcrumb proxy. when I went to add the master page, the main one available already had the breadcrumb proxy in place... so i kept it, and deleted the default setting of a mini ...

Is it possible to have more than 2 breadcrumbs appear at any one time on a topic? i.e., to show more than just 2 levels... I can only get mine to show 2 levels.. and it would be nice to have "longer" breadcrumbs... but not sure how to do that...

Thanks,

(hope this is easier and less pesty than my ...

btw.. I don't see any extra or extraneous styles within the CSS when i review it... so not sure what the problem is. :-/

The reason you shouldn't use inline styles is that if you decide later to make your note-type paragraphs have blue text instead of red, you'd have to go through every single topic that has that inline style and change them all to say color:blue, whereas with the class declaration, all you have to ...

I'm trying to select a couple of paragraphs of text.. but instead of being a controlled selection, suddenly half the topic is selected...

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS SOFTWARE DOING? my frustration level is at a maximum right now.. I CAN'T SEEM TO DO ANYTHING in it without hassle.

HELP!

I created one.. inserted it.. but now i can't get rid of it.. in fact it doesn't even had the snippet tag associated.. i had this happen the other day and SOMEHOW spent a ton of time and finally somehow got it deleted... but i cannot be spending this time on something so stupid. it's a snipped with ...

i'm about to lose my mind here... it's just one thing after another.. and everything seems so convoluted...

i've been wondering about this for awhile, but have usually found a way around it.. but now it's getting ridiculous...

somehow.. some times when i add text, flare just seems to randomly ...

Hi Lisa,

Thanks... yet AGAIN for your input... you are probably right that i've created something somewhere that is causing problems somewhere else.. i guess i'm not getting the concept of how this XML thing helps the process when stuff like this can happen.. but again.. what do i know? I have a ...

so, i have a screen capture, to which i had to add an arrow cursor.. HOWEVER.. when i save it.. then open it in another application as an image, the cursor isn't there... if I open the image in Capture, voila! the cursor is there.. but i'm trying to bring it into a word document... and it isn't ...

ok... this "make paragraph item" looked like it was going to work nicely... but,it kept the font format of the bullet (bold).. and even tho I applied the non-bold paragraph class that i created for the indented text, it won't remove the bold.. unless i do it locally... also, the spacing issue is not ...

Thanks Lisa.. I'm going to try that now... sounds like that's what you suggest?

as for the 0px question.. i can't get it to go back to "not set"... :-/ so maybe i'll try to change that in the code.. i just wish i didn't have to keep going back to that!

THANKS AGAIN.. AS ALWAYS.

Hi Lisa,

I must be using the second method you mention because I have no idea what "Make Paragraph Item(s)" is or how to use it.

and Kevin.. thanks for the help.. I did look at that link you sent (which included info from Lisa).. but i'm not smart enough to figure out about "spans" and such to be ...

I want to create a paragraph style with a bullet.. so i can have a bullet, then text under it, then another bullet.. with the text under each aligned with the text in the bullet like that shown in the image below.

1) i can't get the paragpraph style to add a bullet - the only way i can get a bullet ...

Another thing that SnagIt does NICELY that Capture does not... capture open menus... I'm finding that really annoying... that i can't just simply go in and open a menu and "snap" a cap of it...

yes.. you can get a menu (i believe thru the "delay" setting) and you can get a cursor to show up.. but ...

so... i'm having trouble distinguishing between the two.. i have created table style(Sheets), but then i go into edit the look of a table... and i'm not sure whether to make the changes in the Table CLASS or Table STYLES.... which does what...

many times i go into make changes and they either get ...