Word Output displaying CSS

[WebHelpppp]

In my stylesheet I have a paragraph style that uses a text prefix of "Review:" in the color red:

p.Review
{
font-style: italic;
mc-conditions: 'Default.Review';
background: #E9CBD0;
mc-auto-number-format:'{color red}Review: {/color}';
}

Problem is with the Word output, it displays as follows:
{color red}Review: {/color}

Is there any way to fix this for Word?

Also, is there a way to have Conditionally text to display in a different color in the output without have to create and apply a style?

[sarrantsvt]

Well, that's annoying! I can think of two workarounds until MadCap fixes it:
You can search for {color red}Review: {/color} in Word and replace it with Review: in red.
Or, you can output the PDF and then convert the PDF to Word.

[Nita Beck]

In my stylesheet I have a paragraph style that uses a text prefix of "Review:" in the color red:

p.Review
{
font-style: italic;
mc-conditions: 'Default.Review';
background: #E9CBD0;
mc-auto-number-format:'{color red}Review: {/color}';
}

Problem is with the Word output, it displays as follows:
{color red}Review: {/color}

Is there any way to fix this for Word?

Also, is there a way to have Conditionally text to display in a different color in the output without have to create and apply a style?

I only have a few moments... This is a known shortcoming of Flare's Word output. Instead of using the {color red} code in the mc-auto-number-format attrbute, you could set up a span class, call it something like span.ReviewColor and then add to p.Review this attribute:

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mc-auto-number-class: ReviewColor;

That should do it.

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p.Review
{
	font-style: italic;
	mc-conditions: 'Default.Review';
	background: #E9CBD0;
	mc-auto-number-format:'Review: ';
	mc-auto-number-class: ReviewColor;
}

span.ReviewColor
{
	color: red;
}

[WebHelpppp]

Thanks, that works.

Now I have an additional related problem, I have a condition and a paragraph style called TWNote. Online it Excludes from the build, no problem, but in the PDF or Word it still displays. Fortunately I caught it before it went out. Anyway to stop it? It's so quick to apply the paragraph style vs the condition, I hope I don't have to redo all of the paragraphs.

p.TWNote
{
mc-conditions: 'Default.TWNote';
background: #E9CBD0;
}

I have found that if I apply the conditional code first and then apply the paragraph style it doesn't display in the PDF or Word output, I had really hoped it would work just like the online help.

[Nita Beck]

So have you configured your PDF target to exclude the TWNote condition? I would think that would solve the issue, yes?

p.s. In future, rather than bringing up a new issue in a post not originally about that issue, I suggest you start a new post. Not a problem right now for this post. Just for future reference. Thanks!

[WebHelpppp]

After troubleshooting I found the problem was in my stylesheet. I had moved the print styles to a separate stylesheet but I didn't remove @media print and the brackets { } around the code. After deleting @media print and the brackets TWNote no longer displays in print output. Yea!

I'll take your advise and create a new post next time.