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Front Page 98

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Creating a professional-looking Web site using FrontPage is easier than ever. This unique Editor builds complete sites in which all pages share a consistent, easily modified design, including navigation tools that the program builds automatically when you add or remove pages.

When you’re working on an HTML file in FrontPage Editor (in Normal view), you can quickly open an additional existing page by holding the [Ctrl] key and clicking on the link in your document. This is easier and quicker than opening the file from the File menu.
In Preview view, however, clicking a link only temporarily opens the linked page. When you return to Normal or HTML view, the linked file will not remain open.

Seeing exactly how your images will appear

It’s no secret that images that look great in Image Composer—and even in FrontPage Editor—can look much different in a browser.
One way to see exactly how your images will look is to reconfigure FrontPage to open GIFs and JPGs in your browser instead of Image Composer when you double-click on them. To do this, choose Options... from FrontPage Explorer’s Tools menu. Then click the Configure Editors tab. Select GIF from the list and click the Modify... button. Then, click the Browse... button and navigate to your copy of Internet Explorer. (The default path is C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe, where C is your hard disk letter.) Click OK, then repeat the process with JPG.
Now, whenever you double-click an image, it will open in the browser. To edit an image, launch Image Composer first, then open the file as you normally would.

Sending Form Results to E-mail

When you create a form in FrontPage 98, you may choose how you would like your form results to be submitted and handled. For instance, you may choose to have results sent to any file on any server that you have designated, or--new to FrontPage 98--you may now also have the results sent directly to an E-mail address. To do this, double-click the Submit button to access the Push Button Properties dialog box, then click the Form… button to access the Form Properties dialog. In this dialog, simply enter the address in the E-mail Address text field.

Single space returns

When you hit [Enter] when working on a page in FrontPage 98 Editor's Normal Tab view, the program inserts the equivalent of a double space return, marked in the HTML view by the </p> tag. Depending on your design needs, this may be too much space to insert between items on a page. Fortunately, it's equally simple to insert a single space instead. To create a single space return, marked by the HTML tag <br>, hold down [Shift] while pressing [Enter].

Tracking down FrontPage’s custom dictionary

On occasion, you may want to edit the file where FrontPage stores words you add to its custom dictionary. For example, you might want to delete an erroneous entry. Or maybe back up the file.
The file you need to edit is custom.dic, but don’t look in your FrontPage directory. FrontPage actually shares the same dictionary files as your other Office applications, so the file is located in C:\Windows\Msapps\Proof\ (where C is your hard drive letter).
Custom.dic is a plain text file, so you can edit it with any word processor.

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