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Okay, I'm a year-and-a-half late with this, but just in case someone else finds this thread while trying to solve the same problem...
The answer is to edit the MadCap|slideshow style, and configure Block > text-align: to "left".

Good rules to live by.

My experience is that there's lots of information on the style part of CSS and not nearly enough on the cascading part.
I can hack my way through adjusting styles when I need to, but I'm always tripping over just where the tags are, or should be, applied.

Just add to your style sheet. The result is that you'll see only the final slide in the show, no matter what.

Took me three hours to track down that mistake. <sigh> Now if I could only remember *why* I added that tag to my style sheet...

Two guesses: The file is open in some editor that has a lock on it. Someone changed permissions on that folder.

A bit late replying, but maybe better late than never.
The editor seems to pull information from the topic for its display. Inside the two files Alias and Header, you've basically got a name, an ID and a link to the topic & optional bookmark.

Not quite sure what you're trying to do, but it sounds ...

Look in the docs for "Automatically Generate Identifiers for All Topics".

Seems to depend on the HTML behind those images. In my project, (Side-Nav, minimal extra formatting) I can copy a page over to Word and all of my images arrive with the text.
Just now, experimenting with the local weather forecasting site, I find that some images are copied with the bulk of the text ...

Google analytics? Not exactly what you're asking for, but close enough to make it work.
There are a couple of threads here that describe how to go about it.

I'd start by comparing both the topic properties and the TOC entry's properties to those of a well-behaved topic.

XML namespace definitions. Although those look badly broken. the "sof" part has been removed from madcapsoftware. Maybe a search and replace that got out of hand?

It's usually easier to manage the links as a TOC than to build a page that contains, essentially, a hand-drawn table of contents.
Another good option might be to use a RelTable.

Be careful about putting the same link into a TOC twice. Tends to be rather disorienting to the reader. If necessary, a ...

How is a static date different from any other phrase, and why can't you use a variable?

But anyway, the solution lies in typing both versions, and wrapping them in conditions. It would look like This DateThat date in your project, but only one version would be used for either target.

Possibly a bit out of scope for the forum, but I'm wondering... How do you handle images? I can see three options. Are there more?
a) Recreate in the target language.
b) Overlay with text that can be translated. (possibly using Capture)
c) Cut the number of images drastically.

I'm leaning toward c ...

Is it a matter of telling Lingo or telling your translator?
In either case, the answer probably involves wrapping the term in a span that you create to say "Don't translate what's in here!"

Assuming that you are hiring a translator rather than doing machine translation,
And assuming that you have a friendly translator, using a tool compatible with Flare.
Then your guess is correct. Wrap an agreed-upon span around the part that shouldn't be translated.

Compiles, but the search won't act on it. Punctuation characters in the search field will either cause an error or be ignored.
<sigh>
Good suggestion though.

Not sure that I understand the use case (You want to omit topics that have changes, thereby leaving gaps in the document?).

But that's beside the point of the question, which is purely technical in nature.
Yes you can flag an entire topic with a conditional. It's just a modifier in the first line ...

Similar thoughts, but I'm not sure whether to count that as a feature or bug. None of us can predict what words a customer will use when searching for something, and it's extremely likely that they will use a similar word rather than the specific one you put in the phrase.

My work-around is to ...

I wondered whether I could create a micro content phrase that was just a punctuation character. Experimented with a "+".

Nope. "Build failed". Oh well. It was worth a try. Still hoping for a day when those of us writing an API can have search results that find the page of operators.

I seem to have introduced a red herring into the discussion by (mistakenly) typing "HTML Help" when I meant the various HTML5 outputs such as Top Nav, Side Nav, and such.
Sorry about that.

The warning in step 5 is a feature, not a bug. If you want to edit text displayed for the micro content result, but also have a link, you do it a different way (which is to type the text, and include a link.)

Not sure what the trouble is with 6. I've been doing exactly that all afternoon. Haven't ...

I'm liking the micro-content thing so far. But, I'm already thinking of ways to improve it.

For example, the automatic id that you get when you use "Create Micro Content" from the Home ribbon. I'd like a way to provide a relevant term for the id, rather than it just being "microcontent1 ...

HTML help targets support CSH. I've been using it for years.

Your developers will have to change the call they make in response to an F1 press, but it's just a couple lines of code.
And, my memory may be blurry, but I recall that my switch from DotNet to HTML help really wasn't difficult. Mostly a ...

I use snippets more often than variables. You can edit those offline too. Just be careful to create it as a text snippet, not a block snippet.

I'd put the entire hyperlink and text into the snippet though, not just part.

Like a preview on a shopping site? "click or hover for more detail..." ?

You'll have to provide your own .css wizardry for those. Which isn't too awfully difficult to do. Gotta be libraries out there.