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Microsoft support engineers regularly document the solutions to problems that customers call in with. These documents are called Knowledge Base articles. You can search the Knowledge Base database at http://support.microsoft.com/support/search/c.asp, or you can browse the list of topics below.

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Microsoft Office

Using FrontPage to Populate a Spreadsheet Component. KB article # 281640.

Permissions

Applying Unique Permissions to a Subweb. KB article # 205254.

Visual SourceSafe™

How FrontPage Works With Visual SourceSafe. KB article # 205728.

Add-ins
AOL
ASP
Audio & Video
Banner Ad Manager
Browsers
Chili!ASP
Collapsible Outlines
Compatibility Dialog
Controls
Database
Deleting a Web
Design Time Controls
DHTML
Disk-Based Webs
Download Times
Error Messages
Fonts
Forms
Graphics
Hit Counters

Hotspots
Hover Buttons
HTML Source Code
Importing
Include Pages
Languages
Marquees
META Tags
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Script Editor
Navigation
Permissions
Personal Web Server
Positioning
Preview
Printing
Publishing
Registration Web
Reports
Scripts
Scrolling

Search Component
Search Engines
Server Extensions
Shared Borders
Spell Checker
SSL
Styles
Subwebs
Tables
Tables of Content
Tasks
Templates
Themes
Updating
Upgrading
Using FrontPage
VBA
Visual InterDev
Visual SourceSafe
Web Folders
Wizards
XML

How to Work With COM Add-ins in FrontPage 2000. KB article # 232680

What You Need to Know if You're Using FrontPage & AOL. KB article # 205403

How to Return a List of Records as Hyperlinks Using ASP. KB article # 205980

Audio & Video

ActiveMovie Control is not Resizable After Changing the Control's Parameters. KB article # 219592
AVI Movie Does Not Show Controls in Internet Explorer 4 or Internet Explorer 5. KB article # 219585

Inserting A Macromedia Flash Movie Into Your FrontPage Web. KB article # 265033

Banner Ad Manager

Add Button Unavailable After Adding 9th Image (Banner Ad). KB article # 205768.
Banner Ad Appears as Gray Box. KB article # 219634.
Banner Ad Does Not Preview Properly if it Has no Images. KB article # 219618.

Create Banner Ads Using The IFRAME Tag with Internet Explorer. KB article # 272246

"Preview In Browser" Prompts to Connect to Internet. KB article # 212501.
Browser Restrictions do not disable New Page/Web Templates & Wizards. KB article # 219092.
Creating Margins in FrontPage for Netscape Navigator 4.0 or Later. KB article # 208846.
Netscape Browsers Unable to Display Absolutely Positioned Text with DHTML Effect. KB article # 219716.
Netscape Does Not Display Page, System Resources Diminish. KB article # 205772.
Page Banner Not Visible w/16-bit Netscape Browser. KB article # 206028.
Sample JavaScript Code to Redirect Page Based on Browser. KB article # 208649.

Chili!Soft Chili!ASP

Using FrontPage Database Features on Servers Running Chili!ASP. KB article # 225204.

Collapsible Outlines

Collapsing and Expanding Outlines Using OnMouseOver Event. KB article # 208644.

Compatibility Dialog

Compatibility List Does Not Populate Unselected Technologies Check Boxes. KB article # 219154.
Custom Scripts can Still be Used When JavaScript and VBscript are Disabled in Compatibility Options. KB article # 219126.

How to Add a Script to the ActiveX Calendar Control. KB article # 205686.

After installing MS PWS 4.0, MDAC is Downgraded. KB article # 232525.
Column Values are Added to Current Cell in Database Region. KB article # 219072.
Configuration Settings to Assist in Securing Database Information on a Web Server. KB article # 232645.
Database Connection is Not Created After Moving Database to a Different Web. KB article # 219118.
Database Connection with Parenthesis Disappears. KB article # 229578.
Database Features Do Not Work on Disk-Based Web Published to MSPWS. KB article # 219170.
Database Menu Item on Insert Menu Unavailable. KB article # 232532.
Database Pages Created Before Running ASP.EXE on MSPWS 1.0a Return No Data. KB article # 219159.
Database Results Drop-Down List Does Not Appear in Netscape. KB article # 232245.
Enabling Database Features Without the Server Extensions. KB article # 233018.
FAQ: Database Connections Made Before Installation of ASP Need to be Verified After Installing ASP. KB article # 233008.
FP98 Extended Server with Send to Database Form Handler Results in Error. KB article # 200973.
FrontPage 2000 Creates Access 2000 Database Files. KB article # 233406.
How To Change the Number of Records Returned in the Database Results Wizard. KB article # 219723.
Installation of ASP.EXE may Interfere with Database Connectivity in Office 2000. KB article # 199365.
Time Stamp in Database Form Handler Shows Two-Digit Year. KB article # 219124.
Too Few Parameters Error Previewing Page w/Database Region. KB article # 205972.
Unknown Field Error When Viewing Page With Database Region. KB article # 205932.

Deleting a Web

How to Delete a Web. KB article # 232646.

Design Time Controls

Design Time Controls Do Not Preview Changes Made in Normal View. KB article # 219561.
Design Time Controls Use Scripting Even if Scripting is Disabled. KB article # 219125.
Design-Time Control Command Not Available. KB article # 206059.

DHTML Animations Not Appearing on Page Load. KB article # 219108.
DHTML Effects Can Only be Applied to Paragraphs. KB article # 219096.
Dynamic HTML Effects Are Unavailable When Editing Shared Border. KB article # 205833.
Font Formatting does not overwrite text with DHTML effects. KB article # 219551.
Wipe DHTML Effect Positions Affected Sentence on Top of Adjacent Sentence. KB article # 219565.
Using ASP to make DHTML-Enabled Tables. KB article # 272069

Disk-Based Webs

Some FrontPage Components Do Not Work on Disk-Based Webs. KB article # 206154.

Download Times

Download Time Doesn't Reflect Files Used in Hover Buttons or Banner Ads. KB article # 219250.

Error Messages

"HTTP Code 500" Creating Web, Browsing Page w/Image, Web Bots. KB article # 205271.
"HTTP Error Code 405" Opening or Publishing a Web. KB article # 206046.
Application Error Occurred in MSOHelp.exe. KB article # 229550.
Browsing Web Returns List of Files Instead of Home Page. KB article # 205479.
Cannot Access Help After Importing Files from Floppy Disk. KB article # 205485.
Cannot Create Web Using .com, .dll, or .exe Extension. KB article # 205518.
Cannot Open, Create Webs Remotely w/MSPWS 4.0. KB article # 205527.
Cannot Preview an Internet Web Page That Uses a Client-Side Redirect Script. KB article # 219133.
Cannot Type URL in Get Background Information From Another Page Check Box. KB article # 219680.
Deleted Pages from Web Show up in Search Results List. KB article # 205612.
Error Browsing Web as File Instead of as HTTP. KB article # 205632.
Error Using Publish Web Command Copying Web Remotely. KB article # 205601.
Errors Attempting to Start FrontPage Personal Web Server. KB article # 205650.
Exceeding Upper Limit of HTML File Size Causes FrontPage to Stop Responding (Hang). KB article # 229296.
Files, Folders Beginning w/ Underscore Character Disappear. KB article # 205662.
Folder is Marked Executable Error When Saving a Page to a Web. KB article # 219110.
Folders.Add Method Does Not Overwrite Existing Folder. KB article # 219605.
Folders.Add Method Fails on External Files. KB article # 219573.
For Each Loop Skips Every Other Instance When Replacing Tags. KB article # 229297.
FP98 Icon Disappears After Installing FP2000. KB article # 219157.
FPREAD9.TXT Cites Issues With Left-to-Right Languages. KB article # 225205.
FrontPage 2000 Not Registered as the Default HTML Editor. KB article # 222108.
FrontPage Does Not Accept Blank Password. KB article # 205672.
FrontPage Times Out While Trying to Connect to Server. KB article # 205680.
HTML View is Not Updated When Page is Modified Elsewhere. KB article # 219238.
HTTP Code 501 Error Opening, Creating Web. KB article # 205700.
HTTP Error 405 After Renaming Page with Database Search Form. KB article # 229295.
Invalid Page Fault Inserting Timestamp When System Date is 2038. KB article # 219220.
Java Applets Fail If Case Is Incorrect In Codebase. KB article # 207567.
Modified By Attribute Displays as a Question Mark. KB article # 205238.
Multiple Errors Trying to Access Web Sites. KB article # 205715.
No Icon for Script, Formatting, or Inserted HTML. KB article # 206136.
No Prompt for User Name and Password on IIS Web. KB article # 208628.
Object Failed to Load Error In Script Editor When Working With Positioned ActiveX Controls. KB article # 219685.
Office Specific File is Saved to the FrontPageTempDir. KB article # 219119.
Password Prompt is Displayed More than Once When a Read-Only File is Opened. KB article # 219146.
Prompted to Overwrite Global.ASA File When Publishing. KB article # 219078.
Prompted to Overwrite the Wrong File When Using Save As Command. KB article # 219138.
Prompted to Save Unused Embedded Files on Themed Page. KB article # 219088.
Quotes or Ampersand Around Text Within <pre> Tag Are Converted to HTML Entity. KB article # 219143.
Regional Separators Prohibit Validation. KB article # 235000.
TCP/IP Test Fails But Other Internet Programs Run. KB article # 205466.

Vector Fonts Are Not Displayed Properly. KB article # 219554.
Specifying a Series of Fonts in the FONT Tag. KB article # 205759

Cannot Validate Form Field if Name Has Invalid Character. KB article # 205545.
Creating Hover Effects for Form Buttons using DHTML and CSS. KB article # 222949.
Custom Confirmation Component Returns Field Name if Called by Save to Database Form. KB article # 225200.
Field Validation Uses Scripting If Scripting is Disabled In Page Properties. KB article # 219135.
Form Elements do Not Display Styles in Normal View. KB article # 219704.
How to Submit Form Results to Multiple Files, People. KB article # 205756.
How to Use Microsoft Forms 2.0 ActiveX Controls. KB article # 208272.
Registration Form not Supported on IIS Web Server. KB article # 208637.

Can Not Undo the Conversion of an Image. KB article # 219664.
Cannot Resample Image After Copying It Onto The Same Page. KB article # 229543.
Clip Gallery Cannot Open the Previews File. KB article # 219209.
Color Images Print Black and White From FrontPage. KB article # 206112.
FrontPage Cannot Alter the Transparency of a PNG file. KB article # 233107.
Images Converted to JPEGs do Not Display. KB article # 219730.
Images in Centered Bulleted List Are Left Aligned. KB article # 205823.
Saving Changes to an Image After Using Undo Edit Picture Does Not Work. KB article # 219100.
Transparent Region of PNG File Appears as Gray Region. KB article # 219223.

Hit Counters

Hit Counter Doesn't Work in Sub web on Netscape Servers. KB article # 208632.
How to Create a Custom Image for the Hit Counter. KB article # 205755.

Selecting Picture Properties with Hotspot Selected Opens Edit Hyperlink Dialog Box. KB article # 219707.

Hover Buttons

Hover Buttons from a Disk Based FP98 Page are not Updated by FP2K. KB article # 219150.

HTML Source Code

FrontPage may Rearrange Some Nested Block Level Tags. KB article # 219114.
FrontPage Moves <BODY> Tags in <FRAMESET>. KB article # 208641.
How FrontPage 2000 Handles Unknown HTML Tags. KB article # 229304.
Un-Paired Closing Tags are Removed. KB article # 219168.
When FrontPage Markup Component Writes To The HTML In Your Document. KB article # 229435.

Shared Borders and Theme Lost When Importing Page. KB article # 205752.

Include Pages

Border Content Does Not Appear on Included Page. KB article # 229533.
Images are not Viewable in Internet Explorer 5 With Word Document as an Include Page. KB article # 229531.

Some OK/Cancel Buttons in Same Language as Windows. KB article # 219115.

Marquee Does Not Appear on Page with Shared Borders. KB article # 219706.

Content-Language META tag is not preserved after editing Page Properties. KB article # 219122.
Using the META Element with Web Spiders, Robots. KB article # 205493.

Microsoft Office

Empty Frameset Displayed When Opening a PowerPoint Presentation in FrontPage. KB article # 219616.
Excel 97 Add-In Will Not Recognize That FrontPage 2000 Is Installed. KB article # 219639.
FP2000: FrontPage 2000 Trial and Office 2000 Preview not Compatible. KB article # 232180.
Hyperlinks Do Not Work in Office Files when Opened From FrontPage. KB article # 229301.
Link to Office Document Produces Password Prompt If Office 2000 Installed. KB article # 225234.
Links Are Not Updated in PowerPoint Presentations. KB article # 219169.
Saving Office HTML File to a FrontPage Web Results in a Broken Hyperlink. KB article # 219694.
Shared Border on a Word HTML File are not Displayed Properly. KB article # 232253.
Word Document Saved in RTF Format Does not Display Headers and Footers in FrontPage. KB article # 233480.

Microsoft Script Editor

The Microsoft Script Editor is Unavailable. KB article # 229527.

"Home" Does Not Appear on Navigation Bars Using FTP. KB article # 219069.
Pages Marked to Not Be Included In Navigational Structure Appear on FrontPage 98 Extended Servers. KB article # 229558.
Two Home Page Nodes in Navigation View When Folder List is Disabled. KB article # 219626.

Personal Web Server

FrontPage Client, Personal Web Server Run Only on i386. KB article # 205671.
General Information on Using "Localhost" as Server. KB article # 208624.
How to Install FrontPage Server Extensions for MSPWS. KB article # 210865.
Uninstalling Previous Version of FP Removes the FP Personal Web Server. KB article # 219134.

Positioning

Absolutely Positioned ActiveX Controls Don't Respect Z-order. KB article # 219657.
Absolutely Positioned Element Difficult to Place. KB article # 219140.
Aspect Ratio Not Preserved Using Percentage Height/Width. KB article # 205727.
Extra Line Spacing Inserted after Pressing ENTER. KB article # 205659.
Unable to Drag Absolutely Positioned Element Past Bottom of Page. KB article # 219614.

Differences Between the Preview Tab and Preview In Browser. KB article # 197998.

Cannot Choose Collate or Selection in Print Dialog Box. KB article # 205550.
FrontPage Closes When Printing or Print Previewing Large Images. KB article # 229568.
Printed Form Fields from FrontPage Appear Incorrectly. KB article # 219190.
Printing From the HTML View in Landscape Mode Skips Lines. KB article # 216330.

How to Publish a FrontPage Web. KB article # 198523.
Publishing from Remote Server to Local Computer. KB article # 205729.
Publishing to FTP Location Via Proxy. KB article # 223377.
The Number 21 is Added to Path When Publishing to FTP Server. KB article # 219153.
Web Publishing Wizard Generates Error Publishing to Nested Sub web. KB article # 219104.

Registration Web

How to Create a Registration Web. KB article # 207288.

Categories in Report View Not Updated on Delete. KB article # 219109.
Reports View May Not Show Actual Size of Web. KB article # 207293.
The Size Of Web In Reports View Is Not The Same As Windows Explorer. KB article # 219167.

How to Call a Custom CGI Script With a FrontPage Form. KB article # 205691.

Scrolling Message

How to Create a Scrolling Message in Browser's Status Bar. KB article # 213872.

Search Component

Cannot Use Search Component With Active Server Pages. KB article # 205540.
Determining if Index Server/FrontPage is Performing Search. KB article # 205618.
How to Search Using LIKE In SQL Statement For ASP. KB article # 205231.
No Documents Found After Performing Search Query. KB article # 205710.

Search Engines

Some FrontPage Content Scores Low w/ Some Search Engines. KB article # 205878.

Server Extensions

Can Earlier Versions of FrontPage use the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions? KB article # 232526.
Can FrontPage 2000 Publish to a web Server Running Older Server Extensions. KB article # 233144.
Features That Require FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. KB article # 232524.
FrontPage 98 Server Extensions Do Not Support Applying External Style sheet to Multiple Files. KB article # 233111.
When Selecting "Configure Server Extensions" The New Sub web Wizard Starts. KB article # 219145.

Shared Borders

Changed Border Retained After Closing, Not Saving Page. KB article # 205726.
Shared Borders are Applied More than Once. KB article # 219074.

Spell Checker

Duplicate Words Not Found by the Spell Checker. KB article # 219087.
Spell Checker Does Not Check Spelling Properly For English (British) and English (Canadian). KB article # 229575.
Spell Checker Does Not Spell Check Shared Borders. KB article # 219103.

"Socket Code 4" Error Connecting to Server Using SSL. KB article # 205245.
How to Use Secure Sockets Layer to Secure Pages in Your Web. KB article # 205698.

Custom Styles Applied to Form Fields Do Not Display in Normal View. KB article # 219075.
Errors When You Apply Style Sheet Links. KB article # 229555.
How to Alter the Formatting of Hyperlinks Using Styles. KB article # 233104.
How to Create a Style Class or ID Within a Style Sheet. KB article # 233096.
How to Create Cascading Style Sheets in FrontPage. KB article # 205996.
Long File Path Appears in Style Sheet Link Dialogue Box. KB article # 219636.
Navigator Cannot Display Some Form Fields When Using Cascading Style Sheet Themes in Web. KB article # 222834.
Style Sheet Links do not Apply to New and Unsaved Pages. KB article # 219635.

How to Divide a Large Root Web into Smaller Sub webs. KB article # 205234.

System Requirements

System Requirements for FrontPage 2000. KB article # 213370.

Cannot Select Table By Dragging Pointer Across Table Cells. KB article # 205725.
Collapsed Table in Normal View Displays Differently in Browser. KB article # 219698.

Task List is not Updated After Publishing. KB article # 219165.
Tasks are Not Updated After Deleting and Re-Creating Pages. KB article # 219083.

How to Create Custom Web Templates. KB article # 205694.

How to Alter the Theme Used by Web Templates. KB article # 206011.
Applying Themes Optimized for Netscape. KB article # 219174.
Cancel Does Not Change to Close in the Themes Dialog. KB article # 219941.
FrontPage 2000 Themes are Different than FrontPage 98 Themes. KB article # 233090.
How To Apply a Theme to a Word Document Using FrontPage 2000. KB article # 215455.
Only GIF and JPG Files are Valid Formats for Theme Images. KB article # 219609.
Themes "Selected Pages" Option Not Available to Active Server Pages. KB article # 219916.
Themes Are Applied by FrontPage to a Web Page Created by Word in a FrontPage 98 Web. KB article # 219137.
Unable to Delete, Modify, or Use a Custom Theme. KB article # 219128.
Warning when Applying Theme to a Single Page. KB article # 219687.

FrontPage 2000 Trial May Expire Prior to 45 Days. KB article # 231684.

Updating and Deleting Records

White Paper That Describes Updating and Deleting Records. KB article # 235233.

Webs Missing After Upgrade from Earlier Version. KB article # 232684.

Using FrontPage

How to Insert Large Amounts of Text into a Page in FrontPage. KB article # 229549.
Some FrontPage 98 Menu Items Not Present in FrontPage 2000. KB article # 233033.
When Browsing Links, the Preview Pane Does Not Show the Latest Page. KB article # 219705.

Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA)

VBA Dialogs and Controls Not Visible at Browse Time. KB article # 232644.
How to Share FrontPage Visual Basic for Applications Code. KB article # 219095.
Inserting Macro Creates a New Module. KB article # 219700.
When Prompted to Save Add-ins, Cancel Closes the FrontPage Visual Basic Editor. KB article # 229291.

Visual InterDev™

VID SDK Query Builder DTC Causes Run-Time Error When Inserted in FrontPage. KB article # 219147.
Visual InterDev Database Connection Is Not Updated in FrontPage. KB article # 219097.

Web Folders

Web Folders Displays 0 KB for File Size. KB article # 219106.

Wizards may Add Pages to the Incorrect Window. KB article # 219677.

Hyperlinks are Not Processed in XML Documents. KB article # 219131.

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