MS FrontPage 2000 Tutorial 

 Editing Pages in FrontPage 2000

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For this section, switch to the "Page View" in FrontPage by clicking the "Page" icon on the views menu at the left side of the window.

Standard toolbar

Formatting toolbar:

Toolbars give you quick access to actions you will use often in the FP Editor. There are several toolbars available, which may be visible as needed, in any combination.

To reveal toolbars:

1. Click VIEW on the pull-down menu
2. Select the toolbar you want to reveal
   A checkmark will appear next to the names of toolbars that are turned on.

OR

Right-click anywhere on the available toolbars to see a pop-up list of all toolbars.

Usually, you will want to have these toolbars showing: Standard, Formatting, and Status Bar. The others are used less frequently, but may be turned on as needed.

Customizing Toolbars

You can customize the icons on your toolbar to make them more efficient for you by eliminating ones that you don't use ever or very often.  Each tool bar has a down-arrow at the far right that allows you to turn off or on every icon.

Just click the down-arrow and take the check off any item that you do not want to appear on your toolbar.

 

Format Marks

    Like the "Reveal Codes" function in word processors, you can turn on "Format Marks" in the FP Editor so you can see exactly where you have placed paragraph and line breaks. To reveal format marks click VIEW à FORMAT MARKS

Undo

    By far the most important keystroke you can learn is Ctrl-Z, which is UNDO. It will undo backwards up to the last 20 commands. Alternatively, you can undo by clicking EDIT à UNDO or by clicking the Undo icon on the Standard Toolbar.

Spellchecker

   FrontPage 2000 now has on-the-fly spell checking that will use red underlining to show you misspelled words.  It shares the custom dictionary with your other Office applications.  You can also choose the spellcheck icon on the toolbar to force a spell check of the entire document, or a specific highlighted word or section.

You will need to have the "Formatting" toolbar turned on for this section.

On the Formatting toolbar, you will see several icons for formatting text that are similar to those found in Word Perfect or other word processors. You can change the font face and size, style (bold, italic, underline), and alignment and color of text.

• Highlight the section of text you wish to format
• Click the icon for the desired formatting style

See the Keyboard Shortcuts reference sheet at the end of this manual for formatting shortcuts.

Tips:

• Use italic text sparingly, as it can be difficult to read on low resolution or small monitors.
• If you change the font face, be aware that it will only display on the user's browser if they have that particular font installed on their computer. Otherwise, it will display as the default font for their browser. Some fonts that are commonly installed on most computers: Times New Roman (usually the default font), courier, Arial, helv.

Note! If you apply some formatting such as italics, font color or a new font and find you don't like it, you can quickly return the text to its default appearance by highlighting the section of text and hitting CTRL-SPACEBAR

The Format Painter

If you format one section of text and get it looking just the way you want, you can use the format painter to copy the formatting attributes of that section and apply them to any other section of text.

Use the Format Painter button on the Standard toolbar to copy the formatting of selected text and apply the same formatting to other text.

The mouse pointer changes to the format paintbrush when the Format Painter is active.

If you double-click the Format Painter button, you will keep the Format Painter active until you click it again or press [ESC].

 

Horizontal Line

Horizontal lines are commonly used as dividers in Web pages. To add a horizontal line to your page, click Insert à Horizontal Line.

Right clicking on the line will open the properties for it, where you can change the width and thickness. Beware that changing the color of the line will only work in Internet Explorer, not in Netscape.

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