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I'm assuming you're talking about just items in the Content Explorer and not things in the Project Organizer?

Here's something you could try.

Add a condition, "Bedford", to your project, and apply it to all your topics. (That should also take care of images, as they'll be dealt with when you ...

For some reason I couldn't send a PM to you, so could you try sending one to me and perhaps I'll be able to reply? I'd like to join the Slack community. Thanks.

My Preview window has disappeared, as has my Builds window, and the tip suggested by Psider didn't work. I've restarted my machine and I still can't see either of these.

Any suggestions how to get the windows back?

Not sure what's going on here, but a default first step if Flare is misbehaving is to close your project and quit Flare, delete the \Analyzer folder and then re-open your project. Flare then re-generates the \Analyzer folder, cleaning up any oddities that might have crept in.

Give that a go and see ...

You could do a two-step process.

Before you start, make a backup of your project.

1. In your condition tag set (I'm imagining it's called "Conditions"), change "ABBlueprint" to "XYBlueprint".
(I can't remember, but I think you can't have spaces in a condition, so I've changed your example ...

Bad news - I don't think it's possible.

Central as a review portal just doesn't work for us, so we now generate Word outputs and send those to reviewers.

I think Madcap are (or at least were ) intending to rework the review feature of Central but I don't know if they are actually doing it

Sorry ...

If you're using the trial version with a view to buying, then I suggest speaking directly to Madcap. They're going to want to make a sale here, so if this is a showstopper for you buying it, they're going to work very hard to find you a solution so they can make a sale.

Give them a call, they're ...

Have you looked in the help? Try these topics as starter points. I'm assuming you're talking about printed output, because heading numbers don't make sense for online outputs.

https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2022/Content/Flare/Tutorials/Autonumbers-Tutorial/Creating-Autonumbering-Chapter ...

I tried hiding some divs that had classes, and they weren't hidden either. Why is this so difficult?

Hello back to you - I've read your responses over the years.

And this reply is also to help test whether your email address is indeed defunkt.

I'm assuming you're running Flare on a Mac using a Windows VM, so this suggestion might not be appropriate, so I'll make a suggestion pretending you're just using Windows.

In Windows File Explorer, set your default program for editing png, bmp etc to whatever you generally use. That ought to poke ...

Sure. For example:
Create a new (empty) list item (potentially with one empty paragraph) at the spot where you want to split the list.
Put the text cursor on that new list item.
Press Shift+Tab.

That's brilliant, and so simple! Would have saved hours and hours over my years playing in Flare ...

Looks good, thanks!

Don't suppose you have a way to split a list? Currently I copy the whole list and paste it below, then delete the END of the list from the first list, and delete the START of the list from the copy of the list. Tedious and error-prone, I wish there were a command to "split list ...

A couple of other things I'd want to consider.

1. For your own protection, I'd think about adding something to the page layout you use for your PDF that says something along the lines of "This PDF may not contain the most up-to-date information and is not controlled. For best results see the online ...

Whenever I open a topic, the "Show indicators for content expand and collapse" option is set to "ON" (it's the eyeball with an arrow on the toolbar at the bottom of the XML editor, as in the screenshot). I find this really irritating and end up collapsing content by mistake and then turning this ...

Not hard.

Create a new medium in your stylesheet that contains the differences from the default
If you don't already have a page layout you want to use, create a new one.
Create a new target for your new doc.
Create a new TOC to contain only those topics you want in your cut down doc.

Think that's ...

I had a problem with Flare not liking nested dropdowns. I have a default style with the arrow on the left, but wanted a lower-level dropdown to nest, with the arrow on the right. Flare noped out on me on that one. I was able to change the border and font size for the nested dropdowns, but when I ...

Happy new year!

I suggest you do your search and replace outside of Flare using a different tool. I use FAR HTML for that kind of thing. You can load all of your topics from all of your projects into FAR, and do your 20 searches. Would that help?

The only thing I can think to try is to shorten the filename, as you might be coming across the 256 character limit. I could be way off, but it'd be worth trying.

I was looking for something else, and saw a loader icon here: C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare 18\Flare.app\Resources\SkinPreview\Skins\Default\Stylesheets\Images\MCSlider_loader.gif, also loading-32px.gif and loading.gif are in there.

So I suspect if you change one of these to some ...

It might be a caching issue - can you get whoever "owns" the QA environment to clear the cache and try again.

Why do you want to have more than one H1 in a single topic?

Alternatively, it might be that the topic is in the TOC more than once, and if you got to it through a search then poor old Flare doesn't know which of the instances you mean so it doesn't know what to put in the breadcrumbs.

If that's the case, I suggest you create a snippet from the content of ...

It's not just between variables and snippets, it's between two things that are formatted. For example I have lots of instances where I have "Click [Option] [Icon]", where [Option] is the name of a button, formatted with a span, and [Icon] is an image. In the Code Editor this looks like this:

click ...

I can be no help with fonts, but I was intrigued by your car alarm fob hack - you know I'm going to have to go outside to try it!