Newbie question about using this forum

[Sarianna]

Hi all,

I'm a new user of Flare, and this forum appears to contain a lot of useful information on issues that are not always clear to me from Flare's help itself. However, I haven't figured out a way to search the forum for longer phrases - is there any possible way to do this?

For example, I'm trying to find out if there's a thread on how to set a style for the next paragraph following another style (which was easy in Word). Flare has a help page named "setting a next style", but since those instructions did not work for me, I tried to search the forum for "setting a next style". All I get is "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: next setting style a." I can't figure out how to make the search feature understand that I want these words in that particular order, not just randomly scattered within the text. Enclosing the phrase in quotes does not seem to work, nor does adding + signs to the words. This is getting rather frustrating, since a lot the issues I try to search for naturally consist of combinations of words common to Flare. Any helpful hints?

Thanks,
Sarianna

[NorthEast]

The forum search isn't that good.

I produced a search plugin, which is a quick way to do a Google search of the forums.
See: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 682#p85682

[ccardimon]

The forum search is the only thing about Flare that is really bad. The forums rock. Flare rocks. The forum search, not so much.

[Sarianna]

Thank you Dave, the plugin does exactly what I wanted!

This forum is really great, but just browsing through the topics looking for what I need often gets me sidetracked into reading about other interesting things and I forget what it was I actually came looking for . There's so much to learn about Flare.

Sarianna

[ccardimon]

I've been using Flare for years, and there is still lots to learn about Flare.