Tina's FrontPage News
~~Tina
Clarke, AccessFP - Frontpage Resource Centre
Help! I
Need Some
Where’s the Best Place To Ask for Help?
Before
asking your FrontPage question in a list,
group, club, or forum etc., think about using the
Help menu. It is at the far right end of the menus,
and from it you can search through an index of all
the on-disk help. You can also press F1 to access
it.
You
might like to know about the FrontPage
Online Help files, which are duplicated on the
Microsoft web here.
Microsoft also has a knowledge base of articles
about FrontPage (all versions) here.
You
should also upgrade your help files at Office
XP Update: Additional Help Files
This downloadable file contains the most current
Microsoft Office XP Help files and replaces the
existing Help files available in Office XP.
If you are using a screen reader that doesn't work
with expandable links in Microsoft Office XP online
Help, you can download alternative Help with pre-expanded content Office
XP Add-in: Expanded
Help File
Plus, Office
XP Add-in: Microsoft Document Imaging
Expanded Help File
If you are using a screen reader that doesn't work
with expandable links in the Microsoft Document
Imaging, Microsoft Office XP Small Business,
and/or Microsoft SharePoint Team Services online
Help, you can download alternative Help with pre-expanded content.
If you aren't sure what a specific command or
button does, or if you want to know more about an
option in a dialog box, you can get help through
ScreenTips. ScreenTips show information about
different elements on the screen.
To get help about a specific command or button,
click ‘What's This?’ on the Help menu, and then
click the element you want information about.
To
get help about a dialog box option, click the
question mark in the upper right corner of the
dialog box, and then click the option.
Copy
examples from Help:
If you see an element in a Microsoft FrontPage
Help topic that you'd like to include on one of your
Web pages. For example a form field or a hover
button, you can copy that element from Help and
paste it into a page in Page view. You can then
customize the Help example with your own text,
pictures, labels, etc.
In the Help topic window, select the element that
you want to copy, right-click, and then click Copy
on the pop up dialog
box.
Note:
If the element you want to copy is a non-text element, for example a table, you may need to
begin and end the selection at the text just before
and after the element that you want to copy.
In Page view, open the page to which you want to
copy the element from Help. Position the insertion
point where you want to insert the element, right-click, and then click ‘Paste’ on the pop up dialog
box.
What if you want to find more help about
FrontPage from a third party?
There are also a number of sites that provide
online tutorials
http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/
http://www.trainingtools.com/
http://www.qarbon.com/
more are listed here.
http://accessfp.net/freefrontpagestuff.htm
There are expert sites staffed with
volunteers where you can ask a FrontPage
question for free.
AskMe
Yahoo
Experts
AllExperts
You can find a listing of forums, Newsletters, Tip
lists, E- Lists, Forums, Discussion forums, Chats,
Bulletin Boards, Clubs, Specialist lists and
Magazines, all about FrontPage at:
http://accessfp.net/fplists.htm
How can you help other people
visiting your site with information,
explanations and on the spot help?
When writing your html pages and you find
the need to explain an uncommon or
technical word, you might like to use the
title tag which works like the alt tag on
pictures and pops up with your
explanation inside.
For example
( <A title="What You See Is What You
Get">WYSIWYG</a> )
* EXCLUDE BRACKETS*
Paste the above code in your html view
in the body section, go to preview and
mouseover
‘WYSIWYG’ and you will see
a pop up with the text ‘What You See Is
What You Get’ inside.
You can find more about the title tag here.
The above coding is done with html but you can do
something similar with JavaScript, however please
note that not everyone has JavaScript enabled in
one’s browser.
Visit http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
for some neat JavaScript pop up solutions.
Remember there is usually a solution out there; it’s
just a matter of knowing where to look and who to
ask.
Tina Clarke - Microsoft MVP - FrontPage, is
the Webmaster of AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre
http://accessfp.net/
and http://addonfp.com
She is also an editor of AnyFrontPageBytes Ezine. Subscribe to the ezine
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnyFrontPageBytes and
get FREE FrontPage E-Books upon joining. And don't forget to subscribe to get
Weekly FrontPage Tips. Tina is also an artist and the owner of
http://clarke-abstract-art.com
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