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Hi all,
I wanted to post the response I got from tech support.

Make the TOC containing the topic your "Master" TOC. Then, open the Target you are going to use to generate this TOC, set the TOC in the "Master TOC" in the "General" tab for the Target. Generate the output, the correct Pagelayout ...

Hi Dave,
Checked for a master page layout... it is set to default.

Laura: I am looking at the Print Medium.

Nita: I actually need to apply a different page layout to this item (topic) in the TOC. The docs I'm working with are not all a part of a cohesive book. Some of these items will be a part of a book, while this one topic in question is just a Quick Reference ...

Hi all,
I'm converting docs from FrameMaker to Flare. I'm trying to apply a specific page layout to one of the topics and it just isn't taking. I've applied page layouts in the past and everything has gone smoothly, but this time, the topic and the layout are not working together at all. Help ...

Ramon,
I'm totally with you. Sadly, that's how things work around here. :(

Okay. I just upgraded to Analyzer V3. And the first thing I tried was to open a broken links file by sending it to Flare. It opened in V4.2. So, I drug all previous versions of Analyzer to the Recycle Bin and tried again ...

Ramon: I do not want V4 or V5 around, but when IT has installed my upgrades, they've left the old ones on my PC. Guess it's time to request that they take those off since I don't have permission to Remove programs from my own PC. :x

Lisa: That makes sense. I'll have to see about getting IT to ...

Hi,
I've been using Flare for about a year now, but I just started looking at Analyzer for the first time yesterday. I wanted to use Analyzer to find snippet suggestions and broken links, etc, but I'm having a lot of trouble with it.
I'm currently running Flare V6 and Analyzer V2.2 (want to update ...

Steve: I like your toggle idea. You can never go wrong with a toggle.
Lorraine: Wow! I have your book. Pretty cool to see you respond to one of my posts.

Great! Thanks.

Lisa,
I'm so excited! That worked!
Only one problem: the bullets are showing up in the column to the left of the column where they belong. This isn't a problem for my current table because I'm using the table in a different way than I normally do. However, in a regular table with inside borders ...

Lisa,
Now that I've got the complex selectors in my stylesheet, how do I apply them to text? I've got my cursor in the table, on the text, but when I open the Styles pane, they are not there.

I did add them in the internal text editor and I can see them in my stylesheet editor...

Thanks for the ideas, you two.
ChoccieMuffin: LOL! Makes me wish I had access to British television.

Will do, Steve.
Thanks.

Hi Steve,
I'm referring to the yellow bar that appears under the first word at the beginning of each block of text. You can click on the bar to get what looks like a right-click menu. I wasn't sure what it was called, so I did some poking around and found the name "tag hint bar".

This is the one ...

Hi all,
I just upgraded to Flare v.6. After working for a couple of hours, I wanted to apply a different style to some text and I realized that my tag hint bar is gone.

Is this how version 6 is supposed to work or did something go wrong when IT installed it?

Thanks,

Can someone suggest the best way to put a bulleted list inside a table? I have tried simply using Flare's ul style, but the indent is too drastic for this table. Of course, I don't want to mess with the ul style properties.

I've tried creating a style for this, but when I apply it to text in a ...

Lisa,
I've checked all of these things. I even tried changing the style of the text in the header, but no luck. I guess I'll submit my issue to tech support. Thanks for all of your help.

Lisa,
I just checked body and html styles for the default and print mediums. All background properties show "not set". Help!

CM: I'm looking at it in both the Page Layout Editor and the XML Editor. Same result.
Lisa: I double checked and I do not have a background color defined for the body style. I'm still learning about stylesheets, so I just want to clarify... if I defined a background color, I'd find it in the ...

Hi all,
I'm creating a page layout for PDF output and I have inserted a table with 3 columns into the header. I've typed one word in each column and saved the page layout. I can see the table and the text in the Frame Contents window at the bottom of the Flare window, but I cannot see the table or ...

Riley,
Thanks so much for the template clarification. That's a great idea that I hadn't thought of. I'll look into it!

Hi Riley,
Thank you for the suggestions. I'm not familiar with reusable topics. I thought that creating a page layout was essentially creating a reusable template for topics. Perhaps you know something about Flare that I don't? If so, could you please share more? I'm by no means an expert--I've ...

Hi Cecily,
I apologize for being unclear in my post. I meant to say that I used variables in the master pages in FrameMaker, where I created the original docs. Now that I'm in Flare, you're right, I am working with page layouts.

I don't think that Kafka would be very excited about Help files.

Hi all,
This thread helped me get the look of columns in my new page layout, but I'm stuck now and am not sure if I'll be able to achieve what I want to.

I'm trying to move all of our standard operating procedures from FrameMaker to Flare. In FM, I put text frames in the header and footer on the ...

Hi,
I've created 5 generic classes so that my Typographical Conventions table displays the paragraph styles that users will see in the help. For example, I've got a 'p.note' and I'm using the generic '.note' in the table. The problem that I'm running into is with the output (both PDF and WebHelp ...