As one of those experiencing problems, I'm creating this thread in an attempt:
- Capture the various categories of problems other Flare 6 users are experiencing, particularly with Word targets that end up being viewed in Word 2007
- Enumerate any circumventions to those problems that will enable those of us compelled to create Word (2007) targets to muddle through
For me the essential problem (so far) is both ordered and unordered lists: Horizontal alignments are too far left, so that bullets or numbers aren't visible.
This alignment problem is exacerbated because during export Flare creates several semi-equivalent named styles that all manifest the same problem.
When viewing larger Word targets in Word 2007, I've noticed that lists drop their bullets or numbers. That is to say that if I use Word 2007's styles tool to customize the style, both bullets and numbers are identified as None. I then need to apply bullets or numbers to the deficient list items.
CIRCUMVENTION:
In the Word target output document, I manually tweak the incorrectly aligned list styles, then created a Word 2007 template. Applying the template helps clean up most (but sadly not all) messes.
ADDITIONAL NOTE:
To be fair, it must be noted Word 2007 documents are also not perfectly compatible with, say, Word 2003. For example, perfectly placed graphics in a Word 2007 DOCX file are incorrectly aligned when opened in Word 2003. If Microsoft can't make two of its products exchange files without formatting errors, it's probably not fair to expect a third-party vendor to be able to do so…
I encourage others to summarize their Word 2007 problems in this thread. Perhaps the list can eventually be passed on to Madcap as a sort of Word Problems task list…
Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley
