• Working With the FrontPage Application
  Tips regarding features of the application that are not specific to working on a Web page.

• Working With Webs
  Tips about working with Web pages.

• Working with SharePoint Team Services
  Tips about working with the SharePoint Team Services team web site solution from Microsoft, which is included with FrontPage version 2002.

Working With the FrontPage version 2002 Application

The tips and tricks in this section have to do with using the application itself. They include such things as inserting content that's automatically updated by its source (Automatic Web Content) and working with databases.

Accessibility
 

• Make Web Page Graphics More Accessible in FrontPage 2002
  Alternative text (alt text) is a Web graphic property used by Web browsers.  Without alt text, your Web graphics are not accessible to visitors to your Web site who use screen readers.

• Making FrontPage Toolbars More Accessible
  FrontPage version 2002 includes features that make it accessible to a wider range of users, including those who have limited dexterity, low vision, or other disabilities. One such feature increases the size of toolbar buttons to make them easier to use.

Automatic Web Content
 

• Add Syndicated Content to Your Web from MSNBC
  Shows how you can add headlines from MSNBC to your Web site, and MSNBC will update them for you!

• Display a Banner Ad from bCentral Ad Network
  Shows how you can get your advertisements on other sites by including banner ads on your site. Brought to you by Microsoft bCentral.

bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in for FrontPage

• Add a Theme to your bCentral E-commerce Web Catalog in FrontPage 2002
  Using FrontPage version 2002, you can change the look of your e-commerce Web product catalog by applying a Theme to the template pages in the Catalog Templates folder of your FrontPage-based Web site.
• Add Multiple Products to Your Product Catalog
  Details how to add products to the product catalog that is displayed on your e-commerce Web site.
• Add Shared Borders to your bCentral E-commerce Web in FrontPage 2002
  With FrontPage version 2002, you can change the look of your e-commerce Web product catalog by adding shared borders to the template pages in the Catalog Templates folder of your FrontPage-based Web site.
• Changing the Department List Properties in Your Ecommerce Web Using FrontPage 2002
  With FrontPage version 2002, you can change the way your product information is displayed in your bCentral e-commerce Web site. This article describes how to change the way your product information is displayed using Department List Properties in your bCentral e-commerce Web.
• Promote Your Products Across Internet Auction Web Sites
  Describes how you can sell products on your site and in addition, automatically list those products on popular Internet auction sites.

Copying, Cutting and Pasting

• Accessing Clipboard and Search Task Panes
  Shows how to quickly switch between different task areas including adding new templates and pages to your Web, Search, and special paste features of the Office Clipboard.
• Paste the Way You Want With Smart Tags
  Describes how to paste by preserving the formatting from the document you copied, use the current web page's style to change the formatting, or strip out all formatting to paste plain text. 
• Use Office Clip Board To Paste From Other Office Applications into FrontPage
  Learn how to use the Office Clip Board, which helps you copy or cut content from Microsoft® Office XP applications and quickly paste them into web pages you're creating with FrontPage.

Databases
 

• Changing Database Results Field Labels
  When a database results region is formatted as a table, the table column headings are called Field labels. This article describes how to rename or format the field labels. 
• Using the Database Interface Wizard
  The Database Interface Wizard in Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002 generates everything you need to add database functionality to your website including a database, the forms, and Web pages required.
• Using the Database Results Wizard for Information Filtering
  This article shows how to use the Database Results Wizard to help you build a query to filter database results on your Web site.

Drawing & Graphics
 

• Positioning Text in Shapes Using Cell Properties
  This article describes how to control the position of text in AutoShapes.
• Using 3D Lighting Effects
  Describes how to add or change a 3-D lighting effects to AutoShapes and Word Art objects.
• Using PowerPoint-like Drawing Features
  Use enhanced drawing tools like auto-shapes, drop shadows, Word Art, and text boxes for attention-getting effects on your web pages.  
• Working with AutoShapes
  Describes how to make a text balloon or "callout" using PowerPoint-like drawing tools new in FrontPage version 2002.

Find & Replace

• Using Find and Replace Enhancements
  Use enhanced find and replace in FrontPage version 2002 to not only search all the files or HTML in your web to quickly find and replace content or even HTML, but now you can search multiple files, selecting only the ones you want to look at. You can also tab between Find and Replace. 

Formatting

• Flexible Formatting of Hyperlinks Using CSS
  Describes how to create a hyperlink without an underline.
• Use AutoFormat for Fast and Easy Tables
  Table AutoFormat allows you to quickly and easily format tables in professional-looking styles.

• Using the Border Dropdown Tool
  The Border Dropdown Tool Button in Microsoft FrontPage version 2002 allows you to quickly and conveniently add borders to text or graphics.

Frames

• Using Inline Frames in FrontPage 2002
  Inline frames allow you to embed another Web page and its contents in an existing page.

HTML and ASP Editing Features

• HTML Formatting and Optional Reformatting
  You can tell FrontPage how your HTML page should be formatted, from how many indents should come before each tag, to whether or not to use optional tags.
• Using Reveal Tags View
  With FrontPage 2002 you can troubleshoot Web pages by using the Reveal Tags View.  Reveal Tags allows you to see the HTML code while still in Normal view.
• View ASP Pages without Disturbing the Code
  Active Server Page Source Code Preservation allows users to edit content in pages containing ASP code without disturbing the ASP code itself.

Handwriting Recognition

• Using Advanced Handwriting Recognition in FrontPage 2002
  Describes how to use handwriting recognition to enter text into Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002-based Web pages by writing instead of typing.

Navigation

• Add and Modify New Pages Using the Navigation Pane
  Shows how to use the new Navigation Pane in FrontPage version 2002 so you can see how your pages link together while you’re still editing a page.
• Build Custom Link Bars to Navigate to Pages On or Off Your Site
  Explains how to create a single button or collection of buttons on a Web page.
• Quickly Change Navigational Elements From Text To Buttons
  Describes how to quickly change text links into buttons in a FrontPage or SharePoint Team Services-based Web site.

Photo Gallery
 

• Create a Photo Gallery to Display Images or Photos
  How to quickly and easily create a Photo Gallery to display personal or business photos or images. 
• Create Hyperlinks in Photo Gallery Captions
  Describes how to create captions or descriptions below your images and make hyperlinks in them.
• Fine Tuning Photo Gallery Layouts
  Describes how you can fine-tune your Photo Gallery layout by adjusting thumbnail sizes and reordering the images themselves using Photo Gallery Properties.
• Setting Picture Options in a new Photo Gallery
  You set picture options in your Photo Gallery to  convert images on the fly either to JPEG or GIF format, choose how quickly they will display, or control their file size.

Scripting

• Using the Microsoft Script Editor
  With DHTML, you can easily add effects to your documents that were previously difficult to achieve including animating text and images, creating news or stock tickers, and more. You can quickly launch the Microsoft Script Editor from within Microsoft FrontPage® 2002 and FrontPage 2000 to view and edit HTML tags within HTML and Active Server Page (.asp) files. You can also add script, such as Microsoft Visual Basic®, Scripting Edition (VBScript) or JScript®, to your files and debug that script.

Speech Recognition

• Using Advanced Speech Recognition
  Use advanced Speech Recognition technology to automate common tasks by using your voice to tell FrontPage what you want it to do.

Themes

• Customizing Themes
  Themes apply consistent fonts and other formatting across a single page or all pages in your site. There are many new Themes and the rest have been updated. Each has its own look and feel, including coordinated bullets, buttons, background, page banner, horizontal line, and font styles. Find out how to create your own custom Theme.
• New Themes
  Lists the new Themes in FrontPage version 2002.

User Interface

• Accessing Folder List and Navigation Panes
  Now, you can continue to edit pages in Page view while you alternate between managing files and folders or managing how your Web pages link to each other.
• Use Page Tabs to Navigate
  Page Tabs make it easier to edit many pages at once. New in Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002, Page Tabs allow you to open several pages and switch from page to page with just a click on the tab that represents that page.
• Use the Task Pane Feature to Get Quick Access to Frequently Used Commands
  The Task Panes in Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002, allow you to have easy access to frequently used commands like Open Page, new Empty Web, Web Site Templates, and Add Network Place.

XML

• Reformat HTML Pages to Make Them XML-Compatible
  Use the "Apply XML Formatting Rules" to automatically take an HTML page and reformat its HTML tags to make them XML-compliant.

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Working With FrontPage version 2002-based Webs

The tips and tricks in this section have to do with using the features of FrontPage to build your Web pages.

Publishing

• Deleting Pages in Your Local Web and on the Destination Server with FrontPage 2002
  Using the new Enhanced Publishing Dialog, there are 2 ways you can synchronize deletes between your published and local sites.

• Single Page Publishing
  Single Page Publishing helps you publish only the content you want to, when you want to, and it's easy to do.
• Track All of Your Publishing Activities
  Publishing Log Files to help keep track of all your publishing activities in an easy to view list. You can review precisely what was published when on your Web site. You also can sort the log file to look at specific information such as Confirmations and Warnings. 
• Use the Enhanced Publishing Feature to Drag and Drop Files Wherever You Want
  The new Enhanced Publishing Dialog in Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002 makes publishing simpler by allowing you to see both the pages and files on the source Web and the pages and files on the destination web at the same time. Now, you can easily drag, drop, or delete files in either location.

Reports

• AutoFiltering Web Site Reports to Find Oversize Files
  Use AutoFilter in your reports to easily pinpoint important information about your Web site such as finding oversize image files. This kind of information can help you identify ways to optimize your Web site.
• How to Print Reports
  With Microsoft FrontPage® 2002 users can generate reports about their web sites including special usage analysis reports. This article describes how to print the reports.

Server Extensions

• Features Requiring FrontPage version 2002 Server Extensions
  Your web site will have the best Microsoft FrontPage functionality when it is published to a Web server that has installed the Microsoft FrontPage® 2002 Server Extensions or SharePoint™ Team Services. This article lists features and components requiring the new server extensions as well as those requiring specific, earlier versions. 

Shared Borders

• Apply Background Colors or Images to Shared Borders
  Shared borders are like headers and footers because you only have to modify content in one place to update many pages. With improved Shared Borders, you can apply background colors or background images to shared borders.
• Using WordArt in Shared Borders
  Describes how to insert WordArt into shared borders.

Substitution Web Component

• Adding New Values to the Substitution Web Component
  The Substitution Web Component helps you quickly insert repetitive information in your web pages. This article describes how to add your own Substitution components such as a company email address.

Usage Analysis

• Fine-Tune Usage Analysis Settings
  Usage Analysis Reports help you track who visits your Web site by providing a variety of site traffic information. You can specify when, how often, and for how long usage information is collected and kept.
• Insert a Top 10 List Linking to Your Most Popular Pages
  You can quickly insert Top 10 Lists that link to the Top 10 most frequented pages on your site. Create lists by number of visited pages, referring domains, referring URLs, search strings, visiting users, and more. These lists are automatically refreshed when the user comes to the page. Use the Top 10 List on Internet or intranet sites.
• Setting Up Usage Analysis
  Describes how to set up and use the Usage Analysis Reports feature, which helps you track who visits your Web site by providing a variety of site traffic and site use information.
• Top Ten List Referring URLs
  You can quickly insert a Top 10 List that links to the Top 10 most frequent referring URLs. Referring URLs represent where your visitors are coming from when they browse your site.
• Track How Visitors Access and Use Your Web Site with Usage Analysis Reports
  Learn more about how Usage Analysis Reports can help you understand how visitors learn about and use your Web site.

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Working With SharePoint Team Services

The tips and tricks in this section have to do with using the SharePoint Team Services team Web site solution from Microsoft. 

Calendar
 

• Make Calendar View the Default View
  You can make the calendar view the default view for the Events page. Then, when you click on the Events heading, the Calendar view will show you all of the events for this month instead of the original All Events view.

Discussions
 

• Adding Discussion Threads to Documents
  The Web document discussion feature in Microsoft SharePoint™ Team Services can be used to add a discussion thread to a document on your SharePoint Team Services-based team Web site.

Document Libraries
 

• Add Rules To a Document Library
  In a SharePoint™ Team Services-based Web site, you can manage documents in your document library by using rules to automatically perform actions based on document properties. This article describes how to use the Rules Wizard templates as a starting point for creating your own rules.

Fonts
 

• How to Change Fonts in Cascading Style Sheet
  SharePoint™ Team Services-based Web sites use an external Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), ows.css, to apply consistent style information across your Web site. This article describes how to modify the ows.css in your SharePoint Team Services-based Web site.

Graphics
 

• Change a Logo
  Describes how to replace the SharePoint Team Services logo on the home page with your own logo using FrontPage version 2002.

Lists
 

• Changing List Style Layouts With List Properties
  Describes how to change list layouts with one of 14 list layout styles.

• Customizing List Interactive Layouts
  You can create new lists or edit and customize existing lists from within the browser. You can further customize these lists using Layout Customization View in FrontPage version 2002.

Management
 

• Managing a Large Web Site
  Describes how subwebs can help make managing a large Web site easier. 

• Remotely Administer a Web
  Using Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002 and SharePoint™ Team Services, it is easy to set up remote administration by adding a user account with Administrator role permissions.

Navigation
 

• Customizing Link Bars in a SharePoint Team Services
  SharePoint™ Team Services-based default sites offer pre-made Link Bars for site-wide navigation. One link bar is in the top shared border of the home page. With Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002, you can customize these link bars by editing or adding and removing links.

Shared Borders
 

• Add a Header Using Shared Borders
  Using shared borders in a SharePoint™ Team Services-based Web site, you can place a header at the top of every page in your web site. For example, you may want to quickly add your company name to every page on your SharePoint™ Team Services-based Intranet Web site.

Surveys

• Create Online Surveys To Gather Important User Information
  Use Microsoft FrontPage® version 2002 to create and insert dynamic online surveys, complete with easy-to-add radio buttons, dropdown menus, and check boxes. Visitors can respond to surveys from their browsers, and can choose to see results in automatic graphs.
• View the Results of a Survey
  You can view the results of SharePoint Team Services-based surveys and see how each team member responded or see a compilation of responses.

Themes

• Add Complimentary Themes from FrontPage 2002
  Themes are used to quickly apply consistent styles and formatting across your Web site. This article describes how to apply a Theme to a SharePoint Team Services-based site.

Views

• Add or Remove Fields in a SharePoint Team Services List View
  Describes how to add or remove fields from a list.
   

 

	Working With the FrontPage 2000 Application Tips regarding features of the application that are not specific to working on a Web page.
	Working With Webs Tips about working with Web pages.
	Using Keyboard Commands Little-known keyboard shortcuts.

Working With the FrontPage 2000 Application

The tips and tricks in this section have to do with using the application itself. They include such things as launching multiple instances of FrontPage and customizing your menus.

Displays

• Displaying full screen. How to make FrontPage show a page full screen.

• Displaying multiple pages. How to open separate instances of FrontPage so you can view multiple pages in the same Web at the same time.

Opening Documents

• Opening Office documents in FrontPage . How to make FrontPage open Web pages that were created in other Office applications.

Menus

• Disabling personalized menus. How to make FrontPage 2000 show all menu commands first, instead of only most recently used commands.

• Customizing your menus. How to use the Customize feature to set your menus and toolbars up the way you want them.

FrontPage Views

• Detecting slow pages. How to determine how long it will take someone to open your page.

• Using the Estimated Time to Download feature. How to quickly determine how long it will take to download a page at different speeds.

FrontPage Security

• Resetting your password. How to reset your FrontPage password.

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Working With FrontPage 2000-based Webs

The tips and tricks in this section have to do with using the features of FrontPage to build your Web pages. They include such things as creating invisible hit counters and wrapping text around an image.

Bookmarks and Hyperlinks

• Using bookmarks. How to create hyperlinks to a section within a page.

• How to drag and drop bookmarks. A quick and easy way to create bookmarks and hyperlink to them at the same time.

• Enabling rollover effects. How to change the display of your hyperlinks during rollover.

FrontPage Components

• Using invisible hit counters. How to create create a hit counter that can't be seen by visitors.

• Retrieving hit count information. How to obtain and view hit count information from your invisible hit counter.

• Using an image as your submit button. How to replace the standard Submit button in forms with your own image.

• Modifying shared templates. How to modify shared templates.

Databases

• Connecting to a system DSN. How to use a System DSN as one of the four types of FrontPage Database Connections.

Editing

• Global find and replace. How to make find and replace changes in all of you pages at once.

HTML

• Specifying multiple fonts. How to use the FONT tag to specify multiple fonts in order of preference.

Images

• Wrapping text around an image. How to make FrontPage put your text alongside an image, rather than above or below it

Frames

• Setting frames page transitions. How to apply page transitions to a frames page.

Tables

• Inserting a blank before a table. How to insert a blank before a table when the table is at the top of the page.

Source Control (Check In/Check Out)

• Saving Files With Source Control Enabled. How to avoid losing saved changes with FrontPage's Check In/Check Out feature.

Templates

• Creating custom templates. How to build your own template and add it to the list in File | New | Page.

• Creating shared templates. How to make your templates available to anyone working on your Web.