TIP 1: Simply the way
There is a simple way to create bookmarks and named anchors - simply select the text you wish to transform into a bookmark, then holding down the RIGHT mouse button, drag it to wherever you want the link generated. Then, when released, select 'Link Here' from the pop-up menu. Other choices on the menu are 'move here' 'copy here' and cancel.

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TIP 2: Altering the image sizes
If you simply resize images, FrontPage does not alter the file size. To make the file smaller too, you should select the 'Resample' icon in the Image toolbar after you have resized it.

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TIP 3: Compatibility
If you find an icon to be greyed out its 'usually' because of the way the settings for compatibility are configured, to make sure this is not the problem do the following.  Go to Tools | Page Options | Compatibility Tab | set all boxes to custom and tick everything. Click ok and say yes when it asks to refresh your web.

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TIP 4: Editing a Shared Border  
At some point you may want to access the html of a shared border, in order to do this the first time, do the following: 

• First make sure you have the hidden folders box ticked.  Tools | Web settings | Advanced Tab | Make sure the 'Show documents in hidden directories' box is ticked. Press ok.
• You will be asked to refresh the web.
• Go to the Folders View and you will see a folder called _borders. Ddouble click to open and then you can click on the borders .htm files that you have in your web. There will be the border pages that you have enabled on your web through Format | shared borders so if you only enabled the left border the left.htm file will only be available to bring up.
• You can then edit like a normal page. If you want the others to be available you must enable them through Format | Shared Border and ticking the appropriate pages, then press ok. You must then save a page in your site that has them enabled and refresh the web to bring them up.

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TIP 5: Recalculate hyperlinks
After editing your web, and before publishing ALWAYS go to Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks and when asked to refresh say yes. Why? Your FrontPage TOC (Table of Contents) and Search Bots need this to happen in order to note new links and delete references to deleted files. It also helps with publishing your site, as FrontPage does not have any conflicts to resolve and so takes less time to publish.  Once a week open up the web live on the server and recalculate hyperlinks there as well.

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TIP 6: Getting rid of unwanted Graphics

• Go to 'Hyperlinks View' if 'Folder List' is not open go to 'View' and click the 'Folder List' icon. 
  Note: All graphics should be saved in the Images folder.
• Double click the Images folder to open it and start with the first graphic.  Select it and on the right you will see either blue lines leading from the graphic or none at all. If it has blue lines then it's linked to something on your website if there are none then it's truly an orphan graphic and not being used.
• If you want to save the graphics for use at a later time, just open up another instance of FrontPage and drag the file over the icon of the other FrontPage application in the status bar at the bottom of your screen, it will open up and you can just drop it into a website you made earlier.  I do this and call mine storehouse. You then need to delete the graphic in the web you're checking. You can check if it's a graphic you want to keep by double clicking the graphic in the right hand pane and your image editor should bring up the graphic for your preview.
• If you don't want to keep it just right click and choose delete.
• Work your way down the list of graphics. When you have finished, go to Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks as your web needs to know where everything is now.

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TIP 7: Drag that link
A quick way to insert a link into FrontPage is to position your cursor over the Internet explorer icon in the address bar and drag the icon using either your left or right mouse button and hover over your FrontPage Application Icon in the status bar of your monitor, after a few seconds FrontPage will pop up and you can then release the link. Using the right mouse button, a dialog box will pop up asking you to 'Create Hyperlink’. Using the left button, just deposit it. The link is then created and the text is used from the title of the page you dragged the hyperlink from.

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TIP 8: That link out there! (for v2k/02 only)
If you want to link to an external site within the navigation bar this is what you do.

Go to Navigation View right click on the view select 'New Top Page' or select the page you want to use.
Right click on the 'New Top Page' and select 'External Hyperlink' Input the URL you wish to use, Click OK.  For a work around for FP98 see  http://accessfp.net/tip3.htm Tip 7

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TIP 9: End it!
Position your cursor at the text you want to highlight. Press SHIFT and END, then the text is highlighted. Plus if you continue to press shift and press the down arrow key subsequent text is also highlighted.

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TIP 10: Spaced out!
We know that to obtain single spacing while writing content one presses enter while holding down the shift key (Shift + Enter). However what happens if you want to reformat text already written?
 

• Highlight what you want to become single-spaced or click ‘Select All’ from the ‘Edit’ menu if you want the entire document to be that way.
• Click on ‘Format’, then ‘Paragraph’
• Change the Spacing ‘Before’ and Spacing ‘After’ to zeros.
• Click on ‘Line Spacing’, then ‘Single’.
• Click OK.
• To make this work you must make the spacing before and after a zero. You can also make it a 1, which will bring it slightly further apart.

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TIP 11: Missing your Menu Bar?
Close down FrontPage. Search your hard drive for the file cmdUI.prf.  When you find it, delete it and then bring up FrontPage 2000/02  and all should then be well.

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TIP 12: FrontPage Hang
If FrontPage hangs it could be because the file has gone beyond 32,768 lines of code. There is a limit to the size of files that can open for editing, and if you go over this magic number FrontPage will 'hang' so try to keep your file size down. You can always open the file in notepad to delete some of the code if this happens.

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TIP 13: You may need to spell check a page in another language how do you do that?
Right click on a page and select ‘Page Properties’.  Go to the ‘Language’ tab and select the language of your choice from the 'Mark Current Document As' dropdown list. This informs FP which language you have selected for example German.  Now when you spell check by Tools | Spelling, FP will then prompt you to install the German proofing tools. For this you will need your CD, once this has been installed it will spell check the document against the German dictionary.

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TIP 14: Most times themes are contained in a zip file when you download them. Here is what you need to do once you download the file:

• Open the zip file
• Unzip all the files (using a program such as Winzip, which can be found at http://www.winzip.com)
  
  Note: unzip each theme to a separate folder and make sure that the name of the folder is the name of the .elm file.  Below are the two paths for fp98 and fp2k.
  
  FrontPage 98 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Front Page\Themes\*\
  
  FrontPage 2000/02 - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Themes\*\
  *(Insert name of folder for theme here)
• Open Microsoft FrontPage
• For FrontPage 98 - Apply the theme by going to the themes view and selecting it.  For FrontPage 2000/02 - Apply the theme by going to the Format menu and selecting 'Theme'.

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TIP 15: Keeping your code clean
If you want to make sure your code is not changed in any way the best way to 'keep' your code is to use the html markup box. - Usually used for scripts

Depending on what version of FrontPage you're using, the place to find it is different.

FrontPage Express - Insert menu | HTML Markup

FrontPage 98 - Click the 'View Menu' and select the 'Advanced Toolbar' on there you will find the icon 'Insert HTML’ or you can go to the 'Insert Menu' and click 'FrontPage Component' and click 'Insert html'.

FrontPage 2000 - Insert Menu | Advanced | Html.

FrontPage 2002 - Insert Menu | Web Component | click 'Advanced Controls' (in the left hand pane) and then 'HTML' icon (in the right hand pane) click Finish.

• First position your cursor where you want it to appear in normal view. Next insert your script or code that you don't wish to be changed into the box that pops up and press OK.
• When you have done this, unless you have the 'show/hide' icon (shaped like a backwards P - to make it appear, press the icon or use the keyboard. Control + Shift + *) depressed you won't see the little yellow markers. (Small yellow box with <?> written on them). To access the code again just double click this box and the mark-up box will pop open and you can edit the code. Using the 'show/hide' icon will also show you paragraph marks and other formatting marks (similar to F12 in WordPerfect)

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TIP 16: Save changes in Navigation view
When you make changes to your web's navigation structure in Navigation view - for example, adding or deleting a page from the structure, or creating a new page - those changes are saved automatically when you switch to another view, such as ‘Page View’. However, you can save changes at any time to prevent losing work.
To save changes without switching views, right-click on the view background, and then click ‘Apply Changes’ on the shortcut menu.

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TIP 17 What's in a rename?
If, for any reason, you need to change the name of a file or folder on your Web site, FrontPage will automatically update all the file's associated hyperlinks. You can rename a file in several ways, but it's easiest to follow these steps:

•  In the Folders, All Files, or Navigation View, click the filename to select it and then right click and choose 'rename'.  A box appears around the filename, and the filename is highlighted.
• Type a new name.  Make sure to keep the same three-letter extension so that the Explorer knows what kind of file you're renaming, though you can change this as well, make sure it is one that FrontPage supports. e.g:  .htm, .asp, etc.
• Click slightly away from the box. If the file contains associated links, the ‘Rename’ dialog box appears, asking if you'd like to update the links to reflect the new name.
• Click Yes.  The dialog box will close and FrontPage automatically updates the links

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TIP 18: Jumping the line
When you use code validators they give you the line number to fix the code, in FrontPage 97/98 you had to cut and paste to notepad with wrap turned off and count down to the correct line number. Now in FrontPage 2000 and 2002 you can go to the line number on the html tab in page view.

• Right-click anywhere in the HTML page
• Then click Go To on the shortcut menu.
• Type the number of the line you want to go to in the Enter Line Number box.
  Click OK.

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TIP 19: How to check your backgrounds are configured and how to configure them.

• In Internet Explorer go to Tools | Internet Options | Colors.  Untick the Use windows colours and choose a colour for the background that no one would use, like spruce pink.  Click ok twice and refresh the page to your site you will see what I mean. I use this method to check my own pages you would be surprised at how many 'big' sites don't have theirs configured.  Try looking at http://www.yahoo.com/
• To configure your background in FrontPage.
  • Right click on the background of a page
  • Choose Page properties
  • Go to the background tab
  • Go to 'Colour's’ | 'background' and choose your background colour
  • While you are there change the hyperlink colours from automatic as well to the colour of your choice and the text too. Press Ok.
  • Remember to use the same link colours throughout your site so you won't confuse visitors.

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TIP 20: How to Open your site live and publish from the server to your hard drive.

• Make sure you have FrontPage extensions enabled on your host.
• Open up FrontPage and close down any webs you have open
• To Open the site live, choose File | Open Web.  On the pop up box click 'Web Folders' on the left hand menu and Insert the url of the site you wish to open in box marked ‘Web Name’
  E.g.: http://www.accessfp.net/
• Click Open.
• A box will appear asking for your username and password. Insert these and press OK.
• In FrontPage, click on the navigation view so you know when the site will have finished loading.
• The site will load.
• Once it is fully loaded you may publish to your hard drive.
• File | Publish.  Insert the location on your hard drive you wish to publish to or make an empty web beforehand in preparation.
• When the site has finished publishing close the live site and open the one on your hard drive for editing.

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TIP 21: Want to hide a folder/page from the FrontPage search and TOC Bots?
Insert a underscore _ before the folder/page name.  e.g.: _myfile.htm  or _myfolder/  You may want access to the folder so be sure the hidden folders box is ticked.  (Underscored pages are viewable in the navigation regardless of the hidden folders box being checked.)  Tools | Web settings | Advanced Tab.  Make sure the 'Show hidden files and folders’ box is ticked. Press ok. You will be asked to refresh the web. Go to the Folders View where you will find your new folder.

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TIP 22: Thumbnail button
My thumbnail button was greyed out and I could not get it to work. All I had to do was have a LARGE graphic selected, then the thumbnail button (under tools) becomes active, if your graphic has already been reduced it remains greyed out.
To make a thumbnail.

• Select the image.
• On the Pictures toolbar, choose Auto Thumbnail.

FrontPage creates the thumbnail image, inserts it in place of the larger image, and creates a hyperlink to the full-sized image from the thumbnail image.

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TIP 23: If you wish to configure a page of the larger picture of a thumbnail do this.

• Select the thumbnail you wish to link from. On the Insert menu, choose hyperlink, or click the hyperlink Icon.
• Click on "Create a page and link to the new page", (For FrontPage 2000, this is the white page icon on the far right of the Create hyperlink box – For FrontPage 2002 choose ‘Create New Document’ from the menu on the left of the ‘Hyperlink’ Dialog Box.)
• A dialog box comes up "New", with Normal page as the default; normally you would use this, so click ok. (For FrontPage 2002, you have the choice of naming the new document. E.g. "myphoto.htm")
• a) In FrontPage 2002 the file is then saved to your hard drive and you return to the page with the graphic you selected, still highlighted. Again, on the ‘Insert’ menu, choose hyperlink, or click the hyperlink Icon. Scroll down the list of files till you come to the one you just made i.e. "myphoto.htm" select it then press ok.
  b) For FrontPage 2000 you have to save the page and you need to name it. (if you ticked ‘Just add web task’ when choosing the template (3) the page will asked to be named and saved and then close and you will have to go look in the folders view to open it again.)
• Open the file "myphoto.htm" (if you're using shared borders it is best to delete the shared borders for this page only) and insert your large graphic. You can add text, configure the background, centre the graphic anything you want. Save the page, and when you have published the page you should be able to click on the thumbnail and it will take you to this file.

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TIP 24: Getting rid of a background in Themes
If you dislike the background in the theme of your choice you don't have to remake the whole theme, just get rid of the background instead.

• Right-click anywhere on your page and choose Theme from the pop-up menu that appears.
• In the Choose Theme dialog box, uncheck the Background Image box. You get a preview of what your page looks like without the background pattern.
• If you like what you see, click OK. If you don't like what you see, you can always click the Background Image again.

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TIP 25: Alt Text Change

• Right-click the image and choose Image Properties. The ‘Image Properties’ dialog box appears, (In FrontPage 2000 with the name and size of the image file appearing in the Text box, in the Alternative Representations section).
• Insert your descriptive text into the Text Box.
• Click OK.

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TIP 26: Close to Word
If you working closely with Microsoft Word, or other Office programs, don't simply drag the text into FrontPage - it carries over the formatting, which is a pain to get rid of. To tidy it up, press Ctrl-space or Ctrl-Shift-Z, or Format | Remove Formatting which removes all previous formatting. You can also paste the content into Notepad first, then cut and paste to FrontPage. Alternately Microsoft has a Add-on that will also do the job. http://office.microsoft.com/Assistance/2000/
wMultiplePeeler.aspx

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TIP 27: Easier tables
If you need to display data on a web page, but don't want the hassle of manually typing it into tables, there is an easier way. Simply paste the data (from a Word document, say) into the page, then select it, then select Table from the Table Menu then "convert text to table".  You can do this in reverse as well. "Table", "convert table to text". In the dialog box that appears, specify what delimiting character was used to separate the data (probably a comma, tab, or paragraph mark) and click OK. FrontPage will format the data as an HTML table.  FrontPage "remembers" where the tabs appeared in tab-delimited data-even though HTML doesn't recognize tabs. However, you should convert your text immediately. If you close and reopen the document, FrontPage will "forget" where the tabs were and consider them spaces instead.

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TIP 28: Specify fonts
To specify ideal viewing fonts, view the page in HTML. Select the text you want to view and choose the font (such as Arial) then position the cursor to the right of the font name that has just appeared. You add extra fonts simply by typing them in, separated by a comma. Or you can select the text you wish to add extra fonts too, then right click choose Font and insert the extra fonts inserting a comma between each, press ok.

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TIP 29: Finding the file
To find a file in the navigation View, click the file in the folder list and right click choose ‘Find in navigation’ and the file will be highlighted in the ‘Navigation View’.

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TIP 30: How to unlink
In FrontPage 2000, select the hyperlink and click the unlink icon. If it is not available go to Tools | Customize.  In the left hand pane choose Edit and in the right hand pane scroll down till you find unlink. Drag it to the menu bar above.
In FrontPage 2002 select the hyperlink, right click and choose Hyperlink Properties, in the Hyperlink Dialog Box click the ‘Remove Link’ button. (There is no unlink icon in FrontPage 2002).

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TIP 31: Space Saver
When you create blocks or items of text (such as bullet-points with the <LI> tag) and want a new font to highlight your list, use only one <FONT> tag to style the entire list. If you use separate <FONT> tags for each bullet-point, many browsers will add unwanted space between the items.

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TIP 32: How to use a hover button within a framed page
By Clicking on a hover button in one frame you can change the contents within another frame. To do this simply add the following code to the list of parameters between the <applet> and </applet> tags.
<param name="target" value=" The name of the frame ">

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TIP 33: Clearing your cache
FrontPage 98 stores all its temp files (cache) in its own subdirectory, which is usually stored at C:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\temp.  FrontPage 98 does not clear these automatically so sooner rather than later your hard drive will be bulging!  To clear out these temp files

• Select Windows Explorer to locate the FrontPage Temp subdirectory
• Select and delete all its contents (but don't delete the temp subdirectory itself)

Or you can:

• Press Start
• Select Find | Find Folders under the Name and Location tab | Named box enter first:
  *.tmp - Press 'Find Now' and wait till all the files are located Go to the menu bar and click Edit | Select all. Right click in the window pane on the files under the 'Name' column and select Delete in the pop up menu, Click yes when the recycle bin asks if you want to delete them.
  *.chk - Do the same with .chk.
• FrontPage 2000/02 have a built-in provision for deleting the contents of the temp subdirectory. Tools | Web Settings | Advanced Tab, click the Delete Files button.

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TIP 34: Setting White as Default Background Colour for all New Pages
It is very common for web-developer's to overlook turning their page background colour to white because it already appears white in the FrontPage Normal View, when it is actually set to "default" in the Page Properties. If your default background colour is set to white in your browser, you may not catch it when you view your pages, either.
To thwart this in the future, you can modify your "normal page template" in FrontPage to always have white set as the background colour automatically when you create a new page. Here's how to do it.

• Open a web in Frontpage:  Press File | New (FP02 – File or web | Page Templates) Normal
• Do Not tick "Just Add Task", Click ok
• To make background and other changes:  Click Format | Background. Then change the background, fonts and hyperlinks to the colours you wish to choose.  You can also change the margins with this dialog box as well if you wish and also meta tags that you wish to use globally.
• Now you are ready to save:  Click | File | Save As (Not Save)
• Change the text in the url and title boxes to normal
• Click Save as Type
• Check the url and title say normal
• Click ok.

From now on you will have a blank page with the colours you have set up. For Background that should be white, for text black and for hyperlinks whatever you wish, this depends on how you generally use your pages. If you prefer dark backgrounds choose hyperlink colours that are going to be visible.

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TIP 35: Hover buttons not working
If your hover buttons don't work on the Web, chances are good that you didn't upload the Java applet files to your server. There are two files, fphover.class and fphoverx.class, and they must be in a directory called _fpclass within your root web.  However, do NOT put the HTML page that includes the buttons in that directory.  You also need to have server extensions installed.  If you can’t see them at first, check your hidden folders box is ticked. Tools | Web settings | Advanced Tab. Make sure the 'Show hidden files and folders’ box is ticked. Press ok. You will be asked to refresh the web.

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TIP 36: Discussion Group - New messages go to message 1
This error is caused by using upper case characters for the name of the folder (the default name of this folder when first using the Discussion Wizard is "_disc1") in which the articles are stored.  Make sure your discussion web folders are all lower case.

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TIP 37: Butt what a table
When you have two tables butted together vertically, it can be hard to insert a line between them. To do so, place the cursor after the content of the top table's last cell and press [Ctrl][Enter].
NOTE: The cursor MUST be in the last cell and MUST be at the end of all content.
Similarly, to put the insertion point before a table at the top of your document, place the cursor before the content of the first cell and press [Ctrl][Enter].  In FrontPage 97, if this cell is empty, you'll have to type a character in it before hitting [Ctrl][Enter].

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TIP 38: Pointing to the graphics application
If your default image editor is Image Composer, but you want to use another application, you need to reconfigure the settings and point to the one you want.

• In FrontPage, select Tools + Options.
• In the Options dialog box, click the Configure Editors tab.
• A list of different file types and the editor--or program--that FrontPage uses to work with that type of file appears. Because you're working with image files, the most important types of files are GIF and JPEG.
• Highlight the GIF file type and click Modify; then browse to find the photo editing program's executable file, select it, and click OK.
• Highlight the JPEG file type and click Modify; then browse to find the photo editing program's executable file, select it, and click OK.
• When finished, click OK to exit the Options dialog box.  (see tip #39)

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TIP 39: Which is which
If you're a little confused as to which file is which. The best way to find out which is an executable file is:

• Select the file you think is the correct one, then right-click the filename and choose Properties.
• In the next dialog box, you see a listing with the DOS name of the program. If the name has the .EXE file extension, it's an executable file. The dialog box also mentions that the file is an application.
• Click Cancel to exit this dialog box and then select the application to be your default photo editor.

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TIP 40: To Create a Verified Hyperlink
Creating a verified hyperlink is the most accurate way because you actually visit the page the hyperlink will point to.

• Type AnyFrontPage and then press ENTER.
• Holding down the left mouse button, drag the mouse over the words you just typed to select them.
• On the Insert menu, choose Hyperlink.
• The Create Hyperlink dialog box is displayed.
• In the Create Hyperlink dialog box, click the World Wide Web button.
• FrontPage launches your Web browser.  When you visit the page that the hyperlink should point to and then switch back to FrontPage, the URL field will contain the address of the target page.
• In your Web browser's Address (or Location) field, type http://anyfrontpage.com for example and then press ENTER. 
• The Web browser displays the AnyFrontPage.com home page, where you can learn more about FrontPage via a the FrontPage Ezine, and find solutions to common questions at the forums.
• On your keyboard, press ALT+TAB (or click the FrontPage icon in the Windows task bar) to switch back to the FrontPage ‘Create Hyperlink’ dialog box.
• The URL of the AnyFrontPage home page is now entered into the URL field in the Create Hyperlink dialog box.
• Click OK.
• On your keyboard, press the DOWN ARROW key to deselect the text.  The words "AnyFrontPage" are now underlined to indicate the hyperlink.

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TIP 41: The high life!
Place the cursor to the left of the first letter, hold down the shift key and then place the cursor at the end of the text you want to change and the whole text area will be highlighted.

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TIP 42: Flowing Text
If you want text to flow around your image, the trick is to change the image's properties so that the text runs to the left or right of your image:

• Right-click the image.
• Choose Image Properties from the menu that appears.
• Click the Appearance tab in the Image Properties dialog box.
• Under Alignment, choose Left or Right.
• Click OK to close the Image Properties dialog box.

Now your text flows around your image instead of sitting above or below it. If you don't already have text on the page, you can begin typing now, and your text flows automatically.

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TIP 43: Design Tip
To stop other webmasters from framing your site just insert the following piece of JavaScript code between the <head> </head> tags on your homepage:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if (self.parent.frames.length != 0)
self.parent.location="YOURURL";
-->
</script>

Just change YOURURL to the full URL of the page you don't want frames on. For example if I put that code on:
http://www.accessfp.net/index.html, I would also use the same URL in the URL field in the JavaScript.

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TIP 44: Hidden away
To help you organise your hidden pages, you can also create folders within the /_private folder, such as /_private/myfolder. Folders and files within the /_private folder are inaccessible by a Web browser unless you have the web server ID and Password.

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TIP 45: Never mind the quality.  Feel the compression
FrontPage is set up by default to further compress inserted images by as much as 75 per cent, and this will degrade the quality of the image once the page is saved. To prevent this you can right-click on the image you just inserted into FrontPage (prior to saving the page) and select Image Properties from the pop up menu. Change the JPEG compression setting to 100 per cent, which will prevent FrontPage from compressing the image further. This will of course increase the file size.

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TIP 46: Move that Image
If you start off making your website and, like me in the beginning, don't know to put all images in the images folder. You can move them now to the images folder. 

• Go to Folders View and in the Folders List click the images folder. Then in the right hand pane click on 'Type' to line up all the Image files.
• Click on the first Image file to select it, Press 'Shift' and hold down, scroll down to the last Image file and select it. Let go of 'shift'
• Right click within the highlighted files and keep holding down the button while you drag all the files over to the LEFT hand pane and position over the 'Image' folder let go and click 'Move here' when the dialog box pops up. When you do this all the images will be moved over and a dialog box will pop up asking if you want to retain the links say yes. Don't forget to recalculate your links before uploading your website.

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TIP 47: Set properties on the HTML tab in Page view
When you're editing a page on the HTML tab in Page view, you can use Microsoft FrontPage to help you set the properties of an HTML tag, instead of memorizing the valid attributes and values and typing them yourself.
For example, if you want to add a border to an image, you can type border="1" in the <img> tag — but that assumes you know the valid attributes and values for image tags. Instead, you can use the Picture Properties dialog box to set the border, and FrontPage automatically writes the border settings, in the proper syntax and using valid values, back into the <img> tag. Unlike previous versions of FrontPage, you don't need to exit the HTML tab to use dialog boxes to set properties for a tag.

• On the HTML tab in Page view, position the insertion point inside the tag name (not inside an attribute or a value) of the tag you want to set properties for, right-click to display the shortcut menu, and then click Tag Properties.
• FrontPage displays the appropriate properties dialog box for that HTML tag. For example, if you click in a form field check box tag, FrontPage displays the Check Box Properties dialog box.
• Set the properties you want. The dialog box lets you choose from among the valid attributes and values for that tag.
• When you click OK to close the properties dialog box, FrontPage immediately rewrites the HTML for that tag.

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TIP 48: To copy or paste?
To Copy formatting from selected characters or a paragraph and apply it to the text you select.

• Select the formatting you want to copy
• Click the 'Format painter' icon
• The cursor turns into a paintbrush.
• Brush it across the text you wish to change.

NOTE: To copy the selected formatting to several locations, double-click Format Painter. Click the button again when you're finished.

or

You can use the 'Copy’ and 'Paste’ Keyboard shortcuts:

• Select the text you want to copy.
• Press Ctrl + Shift + C
• Select the text you want to change
• Press Ctrl + Shift + V

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TIP 49: What’s on the menu?

• Press Tools | Customize
• Look in the left hand pane under categories for the menu listing you want.  Click on it
• In the right hand pane under Commands are the icons that can either go on the tool bar or in the menu bar.
• If you want a description of one just click on it and press description down below.
• To add a Command to the Toolbar or menu bar just left click and drag the command to the Toolbar and you can just drop it into place.
• With the menu bar you can hover over a menu heading, and the menu drops down.  Position the command where you want it on the menu list when a black line appears and you drop the command.
• Now you can find all the commands you have been looking for.

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TIP 50: Float it!
On some of the menu items, e.g. Component and Form, there is a grey shaded area in the drop-down menu. You can click and drag this to make a floating toolbar.

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TIP 51: Reveal it!
When you work on your page, you're creating HTML tags.  FrontPage is designed so that you don't see them in normal view. However if you want to see what tags are being created in Normal View do the following.

• Click View | Reveal Tags
  They will appear in yellow
• To hide them, click View | Reveal tags again.
• or if you prefer the keyboard Ctrl + /

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TIP 52: X is NOT the button
Shutting down FrontPage by clicking on the X button in the top right hand corner of FP can cause your extensions to become corrupt if you have just published. So always shut down FrontPage in the prescribed manner, namely:

• Click the Done button after publishing.
• Click File | Close web
• Click exit

Better safe than sorry.

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TIP 53: Watermark it.
To Watermark your page do the following:

• Right click on the background of your page
• Click 'Page Properties' | Background tab
• Tick the box marked 'Background Picture'
• Click Browse to find a background
• Tick the box marked ' Watermark'
• Click Ok.

Note: Watermarked backgrounds are not supported in all browsers. Watermarks won't work with pages that have a theme applied.

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TIP 54: Follow that Hyperlink
When your editing a page you can follow a hyperlink which will open up the destination page or file. So when you have created a hyperlink you can test it straight away.  Though FrontPage follows the hyperlink differently, depending on the destination:

• If the destination is a page, FrontPage opens the page for editing in Page view.
• If the destination is a bookmark, FrontPage opens the page and scrolls down to the bookmark.
• If the destination is a file, FrontPage opens the file in its associated editor. For example, FrontPage opens a text file in Notepad.
• If the destination is not in the current web, FrontPage opens a copy of the destination page or file.

In Page view, Select and then right-click the hyperlink, and then click 'Follow Hyperlink' on the pop up box.

NOTE: You can also press and hold CTRL, and then click the hyperlink to follow it.   If you followed a hyperlink to another page, click Back to return to the original page.

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TIP 55: Open in a new window
I want all my links on one page to open up in a new window and on another page I only want one of them to do this, how can I make this happen?

A) For one link to be open in new window:

• Select the link you want to open in a new window.
• Click the hyperlink icon. Or press Control + K and the Create Hyperlink box will come up.
• Click the 'Change Target Frame' icon (like a pencil) next to where it says 'Target Frame'. (For FrontPage 2002 – click the Target Button on the right-hand side)
• Another box will pop up and you should select new window and press ok and save the page.

B) To select the whole page:

• After selecting new window,  tick the box at the bottom where it says 'set as page default' press ok and save the page.

The code that FrontPage inserts is:  <base target="_blank"> Which goes between your head tags. 

NOTE: It is not a good idea to use this on pages with internal links. Open in a new window is normally kept for External links.

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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