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Although Frontage is an easy to use GUI tool to create WebPages it has a second dimension: under the disguise of easy to use tool Microsoft created a very powerful, flexible and rather inexpensive (comparing with Dreamweaver) professional HTML editor. And despite much lower price it is iether competitive or beats Dreamweaver is many, if not most aspects of Web Page development.
Important: FP creates several sets of temporary files and after crashes they need to be manually cleaned using FP Cleaner Utility. You need to schedule this operation monthly.
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It is important to understand that FrontPage is a complex professional Web authoring software and it takes years of practice to learn to do certain things efficiently in it.
While there are several good books devoted to FrontPage, no amount of documentation can explain all the interesting/practically useful combinations of facilities that arise (may be sometimes appear inadvertently as a side effects even for the designers of the program). Also the set of features you need and use heavily depends on your particular set of web activities. For example, I never used Frontpage extensions and for me Frontpage is just a powerful HTML editor. Such a powerful editor, that probably no single human can learn all its capabilities ;-) And despite the fact that I use Frontage daily for almost 20 years (starting from early 1997), I still find new tips almost weekly and actually dramatically improved my work habits during the last five years.
Of cause many tips that I discover are not exactly new. Large part of them are those that I already discovered, but forgot ;-). The propblem with such large and complex editor that you never remember everything and things that you do not use often fade into obsolesce. But some tips I am still discovering are really new. Around once a year I discover a tip that is extremely useful in raising my productivity. I just stream "Why I did not know this much earlier; it would save me so much time and effort". And I think I am not alone in this situation. That's why I created this page.
Here we are discussing FrontPage 2003 -- the last version of Frontpage created my Microsoft. This is a pretty well debugged product that is really stable. All Frontpage versions are upward compatible: In most cases new capabilities introduced in earlier versions, say FrontPage 2002, survive in later versions -- Frontpage 2003. You can open a web site created with earlier version with a new version of Frontpage without problems. In most cases the reverse operation also works. This compatibility was also preserved in Microsoft Expression Web: you can open and edit sites created with Frontpage with Microsoft Expression Web and vise versa.
There are several Frontpage customizations that help you to reach maximum productivity (see also Customization
To put recent files and recent sites on the toolbar just drag them from Tool/Customize/Command left pane into the bar. While the “Recent sites” and “Recent files” tare the most useful for you can drag other options.
Enable folder list (you can toggle it on/off with Alt-F1)
If you have complex folder structure and want to put a new page in deeply nested folder it is more convenient to create the new file in the Folder List.
As Frontage does not have favorites you can create list of most used files in level 2folder. naming them for example _fav. Dragging file from folder list into such a file produces a link. You can also generate links automatically by using some kind of script that reads timestamps on the file. Count also can be maintained with a script and favorites can be sorted by this count. If the count is the first field then Unix soft can be used for sorting
There are two hardware peaces that are also important: 24" display (or better two or three) and programmable keyboard with programmable mouse. (see Usage of programmable keyboard and high end mice below)
Like other Office applications, Frontpage has a complex set of Keyboard Shortcuts, which are an important productivity tool. And it makes a lot of sense to spend some time and effort in learning them and create your own cheatsheet, which you can put over the monitor.
The first and the most important thing is to install RandyRants SharpKeys -- the utility that provides GUI for remapping of keys. And then remap CapsLock to Ctrl in Windows registry (yes this is built-in feature of Windows). This is a well known blunder in the design of IBM keyboard that, thanks God, is easily correctable.
| The first and the most important thing is to install RandyRants SharpKeys -- the utility that provides GUI for remapping of keys. And then remap CapsLock to Ctrl in Windows registry (yes this is built-in feature of Windows). This is a well known blunder in the design of IBM keyboard that, thanks God, is easily correctable. |
That makes shortcuts such as Ctrl-F and Ctrl-H much more convenient.
It is very important distinguish between vital but non-obvious shortcuts and "junk" shortcuts. Among non-obvious shortcuts that have potential to enhance your productivity I would mention the following (of course this is highly subjective rating):
Those are mostly unique for FrontPage. In order to train yourself to use them printing "cheat-sheets" an putting it over the monitor might be helpful, otherwise you soon forget the shortcut and return to an old way of doing the same staff. Printed cheatsheet serves as your long-term memory and you can gradually polish it. It is important to limit yourself to just one double spaced sheet (say 20 shortcuts). Excessive zeal in using shortcuts in counterproductive. See also Frontpage Tips
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Many Frontpage keystrokes are consistent with other members of Microsoft Office family such as MS Word and Excel so as such they are easier to remember then unique for FrontPage keystrokes. Here Microsoft has done an excellent job in unifying interfaces between components of the Office (generally Office is a masterpiece of Microsoft software; more so then Windows). Among those that matter we can mention:
Optimal keyboard for Frontpage is programmable keyboard. There are several good choices in medium (below $100) price range of keyboards that work well with Frontpage and that I used successfully for a long time:
If you get one of those combinations you can create your own shortcuts using iether
Intellitype macros on Microsoft keyboard
or or any other programmable keyboard (Logitech G510s can also be recommended). Actually for a professional it does not make sense to use Frontpage without programmable keyboard, as Frontpage macros are not very well designed and writing them require good knowledge of VB. It makes sense to dedicate one button on such keyboard to the "macro of the day" which changes depending on the task you are performing. If you do it consistently soon you develop the ability to catch common set of keystrokes in you current day activities very quickly and automate then as the matter of habit. Several other pres set macros are also useful as they allow you to replace frequent operations with a single keystroke. For example
For heavy laptop users, instead of external keyboard programs such as AutoHotkey can be used instead. So instead of using built-in macro capabilities (which, with the exception of Frontpage Search and Replace macros leave much to be designed) you can use Expect style tool, such as AutoHotkey. To train yourself, try to edit documents using FrontPage without macros for a week or two. You will be surprised how much you would learn ;-).
On a typical mouse you do not use more the standard buttons as additional buttons are inconveniently positioned (typically two buttons on the left upper edge of the mouse). But there are several high end multibutton mice that make usage of additional buttons convenient. I strongly recommend you to buy such a mouse and assign additional two shortcuts to those programmable buttons. Selection of the mouse is a highly individual activity and much depends on the size of your hands and the way to hold the mouse. Among those models that I can recommend are:
Like all other Office programs Microsoft Frontpage possesses elaborate and well designed set of hotkeys. The problem is that it is difficult to learn and when you learn them and do not use it you forget efficient hotkey combination in a couple of days and return to "good, old" methods using mouse that you get accustomed before.
Try to work in FrontPage without a mouse for an hour at least one day a week. Just disconnect the mouse and try to perform you regular work. You will re-learn more useful keyboard shortcuts that any cheat sheet can offer ;-)
| Try to work in FrontPage without a mouse for several days. You will learn more useful keyboard shortcuts that any cheat sheet can offer ;-) |
A very powerful tool for any competent Web designer is FrontPage Code Snippets, a mechanism by which you can insert into your HTML predefined static fragments such as reference to style sheet, prolog of the page, epilog of the page, iframes, custom dividing line (<hr> with necessary tags), etc.
You can't assign keyboard shortcuts to Frontpage snippets in Frontpage itself and here is another situation when programmable keyboard is very useful. You can also use Clipboard manager as a supplementary tool. I recommend ArsClip
This Task bar feature has options (at the bottom). By default it appear it you press Ctrl-C twice. It also has icon on Taskbar.
By default it contain you 24 last selections and it is very useful if you need to paste the text again and again.
When you select the Verify Hyperlinks button on the Reports toolbar, the view changes to display external hyperlinks as well as internal, broken hyperlinks. Broken, internal hyperlinks appear with a broken chain link and the text Broken in the Status column.
You can repair the hyperlink itself in the Edit Hyperlink dialog box. In this dialog box, you can choose to change the link in all Web pages or only selected ones. You can also repair a hyperlink by opening the page containing the broken link in Page view. After the link has been fixed, it is removed from Reports view or a green check mark and the text OK appear in the Status column.
Despite my almost ten years experience with FrontPage I periodically find some drastically better ways to perform some common operations in FrontPage, ways that would save me dozens of hours if I knew them before.
And what is more upsetting is that some of those tricks I used to know, but simply forgot and returned to more primitive and worse way of doing this operation. That where this Tips Page came into play :-). It helps me to remember those possibilities, that are so easy to forget.
Notes:
Like all other Office 2003 components FrontPage 2003 is a very reliable product taking into account its complexity. Microsoft was a king of complexity until probably 2007 and only later was buried by the tower of complexity it build (tremendous fiasco of IE 10 and 11; questionable quality of Windows 7, etc). In the past the fact that it manages to debug such monsters of Excel, Ms Word and FrontPage used to tell us something about organization of debugging in Microsoft. No more. Now they deteriorate to the level of Lou Gerstner IBM level (yes, this bankster from American Express, who understood nothing in computers) or worse, when the key power is just power of marketing and financial racket...
Among those that I experienced are:
FP creates several sets of temporary files and after crashes they need to manually cleaned using
FP Cleaner Utility. You
need to schedule this operation at least monthly and also use it after each Frontpage crash.
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Not all of them work but, for example, replacing one tag to another works in design view and is much more convenient this way.
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They changed the title of my original post so I thought I'd try it again: I Know that my web sites will work on windows 10 but:I run a website I started in 1996, 385 pages and built with old school html and (when it came out) MS Front Page. I've modified many pages of these old pages to be w3c compliant using good old html. It is super hot in the search engines and works excellent in all browsers and on all mobile devices. Front Page 2003 is like putting on a comfortable pair of shoes. Yes, I've tried Dream Weaver and all the other "options" but it doesn't do a very good job with the original code, in fact some of the modifications and programs I have tried have been a disaster. SO I'm currently running windows 7 with the xp package to support Microsoft Front Page Version 2003. My server guys have no issues with the MS Front Page Extensions and it is very fast and stable. What do you think the chances are of running MS Front Page 2003 on Windows 10? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Original Title: FrontPage 2003
Though MS does indeed say that FP is not compatible (MS says that versions of Office older that Office 2007 are incompatible with Win10.) , that does not mean that it will not install and run. You might be happily surprised. In my experience MS tends to discourage the use of older programs even if they will run.
Although FrontPage was not evaluated, Andre Da Costa found that core programs of Office such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Publisher back through Office 2000 work just fine on Windows 10.
Reference: A look at running older versions of Microsoft Office on Windows 10: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-win_upgrade/a-look-at-running-older-versions-of-microsoft/6faf72ea-254a-4c8e-9982-2c36cdb1936c
With that said if you are dependent upon FPSE then you might start looking for an alternative to FP. MS quit support of the server extensions many years ago and the number of web hosts that offer them are becoming few and far between.
Eventually you should plan on them not being available and should start looking to migrate your sites to another program. Better now before it is too late.
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Most software created for previous versions of Windows run well in Windows 10, but you might have some older apps that don't work well or even at all with the new operating system. You can try to fix any issues you have running these older desktop programs in Windows 10 by changing their compatibility mode settings.
Windows has a built-in tool called Program Compatibility Troubleshooter that could automatically fix any compatibility problems for you. If the troubleshooter can't fix the problem, you can manually make an app run in compatibility mode, which will run the app using the settings from an earlier version of Windows. You can have the troubleshooter automatically search for apps that could have issues in Windows 10 or manually run the troubleshooter on a specific app. Here's how to do both.
How to Use Windows' Program Compatibility Troubleshooter1. In the taskbar search box, enter "run programs", then click "Run programs made for previous versions of Windows."
2. Click Next and the troubleshooter will try to detect potential issues with your apps.
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3. Select the app that's having issues in the next window and click Next.
4. Select a troubleshooting option: use the recommended compatibility setting or choose compatibility settings yourself.
If you choose to use the recommended settings, the troubleshooter will test the app using a previous version of Windows so you can see if that resolves the issue.
If you choose the choose to troubleshoot the app, the troubleshooter will ask you which problems you're experiencing. Depending on your selection, the troubleshooter will offer tests and suggestions to resolve the problem, such as testing the display settings for the app.
5. Click the Test the program button and then click Next.
You can then either choose to save the settings for the app, try different settings, or report the problem to Microsoft and view help articles online.
You'll have to run the troubleshooter for each app you're having compatibility problems with.
MORE: Windows 10 Settings You Should Change Right Away
How to Run an App in Compatibility ModeAlternatively, you can go into a app's properties to change its compatibility mode settings. With compatibility mode, you can force an app to use settings from an earlier version of Windows -- helpful if you know the app ran well in, say, Windows 7 or Vista. You can also change the display and color settings for the app.
1. Right-click on an app and select Properties. You can do this from the app's shortcut or by navigating in File Browser to the EXE file.
2. Select the Compatibility tab, then check the box next to "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
3. S elect the version of Windows to use for your app's settings in the dropdown box.
4. Hit Apply , then run your app and see if this fixed your issues.
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I have been a happy user of FrontPage. Bought 2007 Expression Web and it worked fine with my Windows XP Professional.
I have not used it all since 2008 and want your recommendations what to do as I want to start using Expression Web again making changes to my different Web Pages.
I want to use my new laptop today with windows 8.1, that I will upgrade to Windows 10 in the near future.I read about all the problems Windows 8,1 has occurred and I want to be free from that that's why I would be very pleased to get your professional recommendations what to do.
- Will the free Expression Web (4) work on windows 10?
- Can I then work with my webpages from 2008?
- If not, what program can be used to work with my web pages?
- Or, do I have to start up my old XP machine again?
Thankful for your advise
Hans Trim Wednesday
1) Open FrontPage. Open the desired file from there.
2) Right-click the desired HTML file. Then click "Edit". On my machine, it automatically loads FrontPage with that HTML file.
I did nothing special for either method to get them to work as stated.
Good luck! Saturday, December 17, 2016 7:36 PM Reply | Quote
So you can keep FP, but I would suggest the free Expressions Web 4. Just install and point it to your HD's web folder. Using this specific FTP program also has a Cache ability. Once you upload your site, you can turn on the Cache and it will remember the web site files and folders. After the initial upload and after making changes, it checks the WS then the HD, then only copies those files that have changed on your HD. I have a 53K file site and Expressions Web 4 and this program has been working for many, many years without any problem. Sunday, April 01, 2018 6:10 PM Reply | Quote
EW has built-in FTP publishing. It won't publish files that you don't tell it to publish, and it does not publish _vti files. There is no need to recommend a different FTP program. There is also no need to answer old threads that already have an answer, as this one does.
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There is also option of opening a file in a new window
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Using G-510s Logitech keyboard or any other programmable keyboard you can define macros
- Define macro Ctrl-F; Ctrl-H assign it to a single key, and use it instead of regular Ctrl-H
- Ctrl-F; Ctrl-K, This way you can avoid pressing control for those frequent operations.
- You can prefix those operations with Ctrl-S to ensure the file is saved.
- Ctrl-PgDown; Ctrl-PgDown -- switch from design view to the code view can be redefined into
Ctrl-S; Ctrl-PgDown; Ctrl-PgDownThis trick also works well with
Logitech G600 Gaming Mouse -- using left split button
Logitech Marathon Mouse M705 -- using bottom right button
Logitech Wireless Performance Mouse MX -- using bottom right button
if you assign Ctrl-F, Ctrl-H and Ctrl-K to special buttons.
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Generally you can program auto closing of tag for any type of fragments in which you can find end by search. for example to enclose table into <center> tags you need the following
type <center>
Ctrl-F3
Type </table
Enter
Ctrl-F3 # change focus to code view
End # get to the end of </table> tag
Enter # get new line
Type </center>
Ctrl-F3 # change focus back to find dialog
Esc # close find dialog
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Actually you can write a script that coverts set of search and replace operating into a single macro. Input parameter is set of stored search and replace operations and result is the text of macro.
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Default are not optimal so you need to customize it to your liking. For example both opening and closing blockquote tag should IMHO be on a separate line.
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' {</:w#>}' -> '\1 '
For example string
<b>word </b> with space in a wrong place for closing tarwill be converted to
<b>word</b> with space in a wrong place for closing tar
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Convenient for troubleshooting, especially when you have one tag missing and try to find where "mess" starts
Kind of code view without full details.
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Copying HTML fragment from IE into Frontpage is a very dangerous operation, as Frontpage take too much from the original page and as a result often hangs. As there is no auto save mode you lose all your work if other pages were opened and you edited them. Sometimes several hours of your work are lost just because of one wrong paste operation.
So if you edits several open pages and want to past a fragment into one of them you better use Edit/Paste special option...
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This is a very important tip. This "My Recent Document" option actually can be viewed as "poor man favorites" substitute.
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It make sense to use Frontpage with this particular mouse. While it is commonly used for authocad and image editors nothing prevent s using it with editors such as Frontpage.
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This is possible because switch cycles and code view is two step from design exactly like design is two steps from codeview.
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Actually size can easy be doubled that make them more convinient for both files and Recent Selections.
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My Recent Documents in Windows 7 list not only files but folders too and is more convient and contain more entries then Frontpage File/Recent files list.
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In this case only link will be pasted. You can also drag a file or folder from Folder list to the page -- same effect.
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Using G-510s Logitech keyboard or any other programmable keyboard you can define macros
- Define macro Ctrl-S; Ctrl-H assign it to a key, and use it instead of regular Ctrl-H
- Ctrl-S; Ctrl-K, and use it instead of regular Ctrl-K
- Ctrl-PgDown; Ctrl-PgDown -- switch from design view to the code view can be redefined into
Ctrl-S; Ctrl-PgDown; Ctrl-PgDown
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18 G-keys allow to put all major shortcuts that requires use of modified like Ctrl into single click macro keys.
M-keys can be used to switch to shortcut for specific submenu, for example M2 can be used for Ctrl-H submenu shortcuts and stored searches.
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if you have a large Web site and put a new page that you just created somewhere (sometimes with Frontpage Folder list help ;-) and can't find it now, you can get Reports/New files and see where it is located.
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Along with regular paste operation Frontpage has "Paste special" operation (Edit/Paste special) which can remove all style from the fragment.
For regular "paste operation" the possibility to remove all styles also exists in special menu box that appears after each paste operation. On clicking it displays two items:
- Keep source formatting
- Keep text only
They give the possibility iether to preserve or remove original styles.
BTW the tendency of Frontpage to copy stylesheets from the source on any paste operation from a WebPage in "Keep source formatting" mode is pretty annoying, but I do not know how to switch it off other then stop using regular paste mode.
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This Task bar feature has options (at the bottom). By default it appear it you press Ctrl-C twice. It also has icon on Taskbar.
FrontPage By default it contain you 24 last selections and it is very useful if you need to paste the text again and again.
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For example is you want to put a slash for local links (assuming that only type http:// of external links is present)
<a href="http -> <aaa href="http
<a href=" -> <a href="/
<a href="// -> a href="/
<aaa href="http -> <a href="http
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If you open two instances of Frontpage (same site or two different sites) you can copy files from folder list of one to another. That's great for reorg of your web site.
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Frontpage automatically deletes leading blanks if you select the search string in the text and press Ctrl-F. You need to reinsert them manually before search
The same is true for replace
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I recently inherited a large website with thousands of images that were spread across dozens of folders throughout the website. Unfortunately, this website was created by several developers, so there were a large number of duplicate images scattered throughout the website.
It would have taken me several days to remove all of the duplicates and edit all of the HTML in the web pages, so this seemed like a task that was better suited for automation in FrontPage 2003.
The following VBA macro for FrontPage 2003 will locate every image in a website, and it will move all images to the website's root-level "images" folder if they are not already located in that folder:
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Set Windows XP compatibility mode for Frontpage icon. It does not help to restore correct behavior of selection in folder list, but generally provides some minor improvement in behavior.
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You need to schedule to run this utility once a month via Windows scheduler as this is a persistent problem.
A must from cleaning temporary Frontpage files after crash and periodically to prevent Frontpage "freezing" and you changes lost
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Editors forum at WebmasterWorld
The proliferation of rich interactive web applications across the cloud and mobile devices continues to create new opportunities for creative design and development. As these technologies evolve, Microsoft is committed to providing best-in-class tools for building modern applications. In support of these industry trends Microsoft is consolidating our lead design and development offerings - Expression and Visual Studio - to offer all of our customers a unified solution that brings together the best of Web and modern development patterns.
- Blend will continue to ship as a standalone tool with Visual Studio 2012, as part of a consolidated designer/developer offering. Blend for Visual Studio 2012 provides a rich design-centric environment for building Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. In addition to that, WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow support is available today as a preview and will be released in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.
- Expression Studio 4 Ultimate and Expression Studio 4 Web Professional are no longer available for sale. For customers who previously purchased these products, all components within Ultimate and Web Professional will be supported through their support lifecycle.
- Expression Design 4 and Expression Web 4 are now available for download at no charge. Technical support will not be available for these free versions.
- Expression Encoder 4 Pro will be available for purchase through 2013. Expression Encoder 4 remains available for download at no charge.
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By default this menu invokes with default option Wrap tag, which is probably the most useful option. But there are two other in the down menu:
- Insert HTML: Insert HTML while working in Design view
1.In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design Button image. 2.Place the insertion point where you want to insert HTML code. 3.Press CTRL+Q and click Insert HTML. 4.In the Quick Tag Editor, type the HTML that you want.
- Edit tag
See also Top tips for FrontPage - Frontpage - Office.com
To display the Quick Tag Editor in Code view, press CTRL+Q.
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Show all (Ctrl-*) or click on the paragraph mark button in the standard toolbar
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Attempt to change the whole site fails for large sites.
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Looks like this operation changed from Windows XP where you can press control and mark as many files as necessary.
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In many cases this is unnecessary and could be unchecked.
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A collapsible list lets you hide sublists under a so-called parent item so that the sublists
display only when the parent is clicked.To create a collapsible list:
- Create an outline list.
- Place your cursor on one of the parent items in the list.
- Right-click and select List Properties from the pop-up menu.
- Turn on the Enable Collapsible Outlines checkbox.
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Within an existing list, select the item(s) you want to move to a sublevel.
- To move items down a level, click the Increase Indent button on the Formatting toolbar twice.
- To move items up a level, click the Decrease Indent button.
- To align an item with bulleted text but remove its bullet, click the Increase Indent button once
- You can continue to move items farther up or down the hierarchy by clicking the Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons successive times.
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Besides the font type, size, and color, and word wrap, the other attributes you may want to change in order to make your code more readable are spaces and line breaks. The Code Formatting tab of the Page Options dialog box contains such controls:
Allow Line Breaks Within Tags Tells FrontPage to break lines, even if the break occurs within a tag, which might make code difficult to read. On the other hand, it means you won't have to scroll horizontally in order to read all of a page's code.
Tab Size And Indent Controls how much code is indented. Indenting makes it easier to read the attributes and values that follow a command.
Right Margin Specifies how much the code is indented from the right. A narrow column of code enables you to see other panes within the Front Page window, or other windows such as Web browsers.
Tags This box lets you apply line break settings to individual tags. Breaking a line of code after a tag doesn't affect the contents of the Web page, but it helps you locate a particular segment of the page's code more quickly. For instance, breaking the line after the <script> and </script> tags lets you quickly see all of the code contained between them.
One of the most powerful controls on the Code Formatting tab enables you to base the formatting of all the code that FrontPage presents by basing it on the formatting of the current page. Once you have adjusted the code so that it looks the way you want it to, click the Base On Current page button to make the same settings apply to current pages as well. Such consistency enables you to instruct your co-workers to look for the same elements-"look for the green comments within the HTML code," for instance.
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By default HTML code in code view is not wrapped: it extends off the screen to the right. You have to scroll to view it. You can change this by activating word wrap: choose Tools, Page Options, and then click the General tab. Check the box next to Word Wrap, then click OK. The General tab also lets you de-activate line numbers, the selection margin to the immediate left of the lines of code, and automatic indenting of scripts or HTML, so that new lines in the Code pane are aligned with the line above.
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The problem can be solved using search and replace with regular expressions for this purpose.
Regular expressions like:
width\=\"\[0-9]+\"
do the trick of removing (replacement should be empty).
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CONTROL WEB PAGE DEFAULT SETTINGS
As users of Microsoft Word are probably aware, every time you create a new document, Word bases that document on a template called Normal.dot. This template includes such information as the default font Word uses and the standard margins for pages. What you may not be aware of, however, is that Microsoft FrontPage uses a similar template whenever you create a new HTML document. By modifying this template, you can control many of the default settings on your HTML pages. In this article, you can see where FrontPage stores its template and how you can edit it:
Activity Shortcut Keys Create a hyperlink
CTRL+K
Display HTML tags
CTRL+/
Create an AutoThumbnail of the selected picture
CTRL+T
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To link an external style sheet to a page, select the Format/Style Sheet Links menu. The Link Style Sheet dialog box will list your currently available style sheets. If there aren't any style sheets in the list, you can click the Add button to reference a file from anywhere in your current site, your hard drive, or the Internet. After you've added one or more sheets to the list, select the ones you would like to link and click OK.
You can also choose to link your style sheets to a few pages or all the pages in your site.
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You can change the title of the page in the folder view. In the Folders view, click on a page or file to select it, then click its title. An edit box will appear that allows you to type in a new title for the page. This same procedure also lets you alter the file's name and comments. In addition, while the edit box is still activated, you can use the Ctrl-arrow keys to move the box around to edit another file's attributes.
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One of the best new features of FrontPage 2000 is the Visual Basic for Applications Macro Editor. Macros can be a great help in applying a number of repetitive tasks. The only problem is that after you create a macro you have to go through a series of menus just to access it, which defeats the purpose of the shortcut. Expanding a bit on the previous tip, FrontPage will let you create your own custom macro button.
Select Tools/Customize and click the Commands tab. Click the Macros category and then drag and drop either the Custom Menu Item command to a menu or the Custom Button command to a toolbar. Right-click the command. On the pop-up menu type in a new name for the command, then select Assign Macro. Choose a macro from the Macro dialog box, and you've got your new macro button. You also can change the icon for the button by right-clicking it and selecting either Change Button Image or Edit Button Image. Change Button Image displays a selection of 48 pre-made icons from which you can choose. If you don't like any of those, the Edit Button Image function will let you actually create one of your own.
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FrontPage 2000 now includes support for the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language, which has become so popular because of its widespread use in Microsoft Office. With VBA, you can automate tasks, manipulate different aspects of your Web project within the VBA programming environment, and create your own commands. As an example, here's how to add a Save All command to FrontPage that will allow you to save every open page in a project with just one click.
First, start the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) by selecting the Tools/Macro/Visual Basic Editor menu. Insert a new module by selecting the Insert/Module menu. In the Properties window (located on the left side of the VBE window), change the name of the module to SaveAll. Now, in the module code window that opened up when you inserted a new module.
To add the new command to the File menu in FrontPage, choose Tools/Customize to open the Customize dialog box. Under the Command tab, select Macros from the Categories list. Drag the Custom Menu Item item from the Commands list onto the FrontPage File menu and drop it beneath the Save command. Next, click the Modify Selection button in the Customize dialog box, and a context menu will appear. Type Save All in the Name field and then select Assign Macro. In the Macro dialog box, select the Save_All macro and click OK. Close the Customize dialog box, and your new Save All command appears in the FrontPage File menu.
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When creating a hyperlink, FrontPage shows you a list of all the folders and pages in the current site. You can bet to specific bookmark by highlighting the page you want to link and clicking on bookmarks option in the menu.
Download details Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0
The Office HTML Filter is a tool you can use to remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as HTML.
Verify and Repair Broken Hyperlinks FrontPage includes a tool that allows you to verify the hyperlinks used in a web. These hyperlinks include links to other pages in the current web and pages in other webs, as well as links to the components of a Web page, such as graphic and sound files.
Optimize HTML option works not only in code view but also from Tools/Optimize HTML. You can also to grag it to it to a toolbar.You verify hyperlinks in Reports view. When you select the Verify Hyperlinks button on the Reports toolbar, the view changes to display external hyperlinks as well as internal, broken hyperlinks. Broken, internal hyperlinks appear with a broken chain link and the text Broken in the Status column.
You can repair the hyperlink itself in the Edit Hyperlink dialog box. In this dialog box, you can choose to change the link in all Web pages or only selected ones. You can also repair a hyperlink by opening the page containing the broken link in Page view. After the link has been fixed, it is removed from Reports view or a green check mark and the text OK appear in the Status column.
Folder List accepts multiple selection: You can select multiple files in the filer list by pressing Ctrl while clicking on each of them. After that certain operating can be performed on a group (opening, search, cut&paste, deletion, etc).
Blocking short menu: Initially, FrontPage's short menus only display the standard commands, and, as you work, the program automatically adds the commands you use most often. If you don't like this automatic customization, you can turn it off by selecting Tools/Customize, clicking the Options tab, and deselecting Menus Show Recently Used Commands First.
Navigation Tip. After invoking of bookmarks screen (Ctrl-G) you can click on any bookmark: that's equivalent to using goto operation.
Single space line - Press the Shift+Enter keys simultaneously at the end of your text for a single spaced line break.
Make a Hyperlink Open in a New Window - In hyperlink properties, click on the little pencil (target frame) and choose 'new window' from the common targets which will insert the '_blank' target setting in your page.
Find and Replace has been enhanced in Microsoft FrontPage 2003, and now includes regular expressions.
You can search one document or a group of documents or all the files in your web without opening each individual page to quickly find and replace content or even HTML.
To search multiple files you need to select only those that you want to analyse. You can also tab between Find and Replace.
To use the enhanced Find and Replace in a page or across your entire Web site, open a new or existing page or Web site in FrontPage 2003 and do the following:
- On the Edit menu, select Find or Replace.
- In Find where:, select where to search by clicking Current page, Selected page(s) or All Pages.
- To find and replace content, click the Replace tab, enter your text in Find what:, and Replace with: and click Replace All or Replace.
Tip To search Selected page(s) multiple select more than one Web page or file to search. In Folder List view, press the control key and left-click (CTRL+Left-click) on each file to select it. Then open the Find or Replace dialog to search only on the selected files. Make sure you select Selected page(s) under Find where: before doing a replace.
For more information about the Find and Replace, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.
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FrontPage provides a nice way to find and replace text within all the pages in a Web site. This is a great feature for changing the name of a product or some other text that might be found on many pages in a site, but what about the underlying source code?
You can find and replace HTML in all the pages in a site or in a selected group of pages. To limit your global changes to a group of pages, first go to the Folders view and select the pages you want. After that, the procedure is the same for processing all the pages in a site. Select the Edit/Replace menu to bring up the Replace dialog box. Type the code you want to find and then the replacement code. Under Search Options, choose either All Pages or Selected Pages. Be sure to also select the Find In HTML option. Click the Find In Web button to find every occurrence of the code you're looking for. Then click the Replace All button, and every instance of your code will be replaced.
You can use this technique to change anything in the underlying source code of a page, including tags, attributes, values, comments, and scripts. It's also very helpful for changing email addresses or any other hyperlinks.
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TIP #7: CORRECTING LINKS OF AN IMPORTED WEB TO REFER TO THE URL RATHER THAN A NETWORK DRIVE
After you Import a web, edit your pages, and republish the web to the Web Server mapped as a network drive, you may find that your hyperlinks point to the network drive as opposed to the appropriate URL.
For example, you may find that your links look similar to Y://folder_name rather than to a URL such as http://www.ee.psu.edu/acadaff/ (for Electrical Engineering's academic web pages) or http://www.ie.psu.edu/courses (for Industrial Engineering's course web pages) or http://www.engr.psu.edu/www/trg (for our training pages).
This is a problem since visito rs who aren't mapped to the network drive will get a "Page not found" notice when they follow your links.
To correct this, select the 'Edit' menu and then choose 'Replace'. In the Find text box, enter 'file:///Y://trg/' (substituting Y: for the letter of the network drive and the appropriate directory). Using the Electrical Engineering example above, you would enter 'file:///Y://acadaff/'. For the Industrial Engineering example, you would enter 'file:///Y://courses/'.
In the Replace text box, enter 'http://www.engr.psu.edu/www/trg/ (substituting the URL to your web space given to you by your web master). In the Electrical Engineering example, you would enter http://www.ee.psu.edu/acadaff/ . For the Industrial Engineering example, you would enter 'http://www.ie.psu.edu/courses/'.
This action will replace all links pointing to the network drive to URLs and therefore, allow your links to be followed by all visitors, regardless if they are mapped to the network drive or not.
TIP #8: EDITING HYPERLINKS WHEN SPELL CHECKER HAS IDENTIFIED TEXT AS MISSPELLED (All Versions)
If your hyperlink text triggers the spell-checker the text will get a red squiggly line under it and when you right mouse click on the link, you'll see spell checking options but not the hyperlink options.
To edit the hyperlink, highlight the hyperlink text and press Ctrl + K. This will open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box and you can edit your hyperlink.
TIP #10: REDUCING THE SIZE OF GRAPHICS IN YOUR WEB (All Versions)
Tip #13 - Adding Keywords to Your FrontPage Web Pages (All Versions)Here are four ways you can reduce the size of graphics in your web and consequently, decrease the download time of your web pages:
1. Cropping the Graphic
- In Normal View, click on the graphic to select it and from the Pictures toolbar (View menu, Toolbars, Pictures), select the Crop icon. A "Crop box" will appear on your selected graphic.
- Drag the handles of the crop box to include the area of the graphic that you want to keep.
- Click on the Crop icon from the Pictures toolbar to remove the areas that are outside the crop box.
2. Resize the Graphic Proportionally
- In Normal View, click on the graphic to select it and place your cursor on one of the four resize handles that appear in the corners of your graphic.
- Drag one of the resize handles inward.
- From the Pictures toolbar (View menu, Toolbars, Pictures), select the Resample icon. This will reduce the size of the file/web page.
3. Create a Thumbnail for your Graphic - A thumbnail is a smaller version of the graphic that a user can click on to see a full sized version of the graphic.
- In Normal View, click on the graphic to select it and from the Pictures toolbar (View menu, Toolbars, Pictures), select the Auto Thumbnail icon. You will see your graphic change to a thumbnail.
- Save your page and select the Preview tab.
- In preview, click on the thumbnail and a full sized version of your graphic will display.
4. For GIF Images, you can use a graphics editing program to reduce the number of colors in the graphic. If you reduce the number of colors from 256 to 32 (or even 16), often the reduction in the number of colors is unnoticeable but the size of the file is greatly reduced. Also, you can set your graphics program to store GIF graphics in an interlaced format and this allows visitors to see a blurry version of the image while it is still downloading.
Tip #16 - Inserting an Existing Web Site into FrontPage You can import an existing web site into FrontPage, make edits and then republish the web site to your web server. To import an existing web site, follow these steps:To make your web pages more accessible to search engines, you can add Keywords to your pages.
Here's how:
1. From the File menu, select Properties and then click on the Custom tab.
2. Under the User Variables section (second half), click the Add button.
3. In the Name box, type "keywords".
4. In the Value box, type the index keywords for your web pages separating each keyword with a comma.
5. Click Ok and Save your page.
- From the File menu, select Import.
- Choose Import Web Site Wizard.
- You can specify a location for the imported web site under the "Specify the location of the new web:" text box or you can click Browse and browse to the location for the imported web site.
- Click the Open button.
- Click Ok.
- The Import Web Wizard asks you to specify the current location of the web site you wish to import. You can enter the URL of the web site and then click Next.
- If you want to limit the imported web site, you can by specifying to limit it by pages, disk space or limit it to text and image files. If you do not wish to limit the imported web site, make sure all these check boxes are cleared and then click Next.
- At the final screen of the Import Web Site wizard, click the Finish button.
Tip #17 - Using the Find and Replace Feature to Search and Replace HTML Code in Web Pages
When you work with web pages in HTML view, you are only working with a representation of the actual HTML code for the page (not the actual HTML code as it appears when the page is saved to the file system). For this reason, it is not recommended that you use the Find and Replace to perform bulk, HTML code editing because you may not find all the web pages that contain the code/tag for which you are searching. To work around this, search for a tag without the closing tag indicator, such as <body rather than <body>.
Tip #20 - Using Page Templates and Web Site Wizards (Versions 2002 and above)
Page Templates
You can use Page Templates to quickly and easily create web pages. You can make changes to your created pages based on page templates to suit your purposes. Here's how to create a page based on a page template:
- From the File menu, select New
- In the Task Pane, choose 'More Page Templates'.
- From the Page Templates dialog box that appears, select a page template depending on the type of page you wish to create. Your choices include Normal page, Bibliography, Photo Gallery, Search page, Guest Book, etc.
Note: For additional templates (including those for other MS Office programs), please visit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/templates/default.aspx.
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