Heading for Word

[Greg]

When I produce Word output, my headings (which also have numbers) do not appear in the navigation pane.

How can I get it to appear there?

Also, if I add a section in Word, the numbering doesn't change. Is this a related issue?

Thanks

[wclass]

This is a known issue - Flare does not map any styles to standard Word ones. There are several options, both requiring post-processing in Word:

• Do a Find/Replace and change your Hn styles to Heading N styles (H1 to Heading 1, H2 to Heading 2, etc). Here is a link to a conversation where I supplied a macro to do this: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a
• Change the "outline level" of the H1, H2 etc styles to have a number rather than be set to body text - they'll show up in the navigation pane then. Once again, a link to a macro:http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 10&t=14891

[Greg]

This is a known issue - Flare does not map any styles to standard Word ones. There are several options, both requiring post-processing in Word:

• Do a Find/Replace and change your Hn styles to Heading N styles (H1 to Heading 1, H2 to Heading 2, etc). Here is a link to a conversation where I supplied a macro to do this: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a
• Change the "outline level" of the H1, H2 etc styles to have a number rather than be set to body text - they'll show up in the navigation pane then. Once again, a link to a macro:http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 10&t=14891

Thanks for the links. The macros work and get the headings to appear in the navigation pane.

The problem that still remains is that the automatic numbering for the headings still don't work. Any solutions out there for this?

Thanks.

[wclass]

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Also, if I add a section in Word, the numbering doesn't change. Is this a related issue?

When Flare generates Word with numbered headings, it hard codes the numbers. Are you trying to add sections into Word once you have generated from Flare? If you are the numbers won't change.
When I need to create a Word document for review or further editing, I will generate from Flare without auto-numbering, and then apply an existing Word template that uses the more standard Word headings with numbers.

[GaryUK]

Yaaay - Flare 12 now maps the Flare headings to the Word headings, so you get a navigation panel. I used to get embarrassed telling people, "Here's your word version. Just don't expect a navigation panel." Not any more!

Now we just need them to get dropdown text to respect page-break-before in printed output.

[djrussell]

@GaryUK, Hi Gary. You mentioned that we can now map Flare 12 headings to Word headings when building Word output...where is that setting ? I've looked and looked and can't find it. This is an awesome new feature for sure - no more post changes in the Word output file

[djrussell]

@GaryUK...never mind my earlier question about where the setting is - I finally noticed that Flare 12 handles this automatically, it's not a user setting

[TeSol]

How do you generate without Auto numbering?
I've looked for that option everywhere...somehow, not able to find it.

Please tell me how to do this. I use Flare 10.

Regards,
TeSol

[GaryUK]

TeSol, it creates the Word navigation panel automatically when you generate the output, but you have to have Flare 12. Mine does it without numbered paragraphs, if that's what you mean.

[TeSol]

Thanks Gary. Since I'm still on Flare 10, guess I will have to live with what is available until I upgrade.