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To add a drop-down menu to customize the options for that menu. 
Start by going to the drop-down menu on your page and right-clicking on the section that has the drop-down arrow. In the pop-up menu that appears, you should see an option called Form Field Properties. Once you select that, the Drop-Down Menu Properties dialog box will appear on your screen. 

You'll notice the Name section. This entry will serve as the name of your drop-down list. But it's not a name that will appear on your screen--instead, it's the name that FrontPage needs to make sure that all the elements of your list are grouped together. 

After you've named your list, you'll want to add all the different choices that your visitors will see. To do this, click the Add button on the right-hand side of the dialog box. A new dialog box--called Add Choice--will appear. This dialog box is fairly straightforward: Simply type in a choice for your list. Unless you want a particular option to be selected from the start--in which case you'd click Selected under the Initial State section--you can click OK. You'll see your new choice appear in the list. 

Continue to add all the different choices you want to present to your site visitors. When you've finished, simply click OK in the Drop-Down Menu Properties dialog box. 

Now for some options: 
If you want your visitors to be able to choose more than one of the presented options, click Yes under the section Allow Multiple Selections. (You will have to hold down the Ctrl key to select several choices, so you might want to indicate that above the drop-down menu.) Also note the section called Height. Most drop-down menus show only the first option: Viewers have to click on the arrow to see the rest of the list. If you'd prefer to have your whole list appear on the screen (or even just part of your list), adjust the Height section accordingly. Finally, check out the buttons on the right side of the dialog box--they let you reorder your list. Just select the choice you want to move, and click the Move Up or Move Down button.

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Here's how it works: When a viewer bookmarks your page using Microsoft Internet Explorer, the browser looks in the root directory for that favicon.ico file. When it finds the file, the browser places that icon next to all Favorites. Note that this trick will work only with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher. 

Fancy hyperlink
You can enable rollover effects so that the look of your hyperlink will change when visitors move their cursor over the text of the link. To do this, choose any hyperlink and right-click. Select Page Properties from the pop-up menu that appears. Next, click the Background tab in the Page Properties dialog box. Select the Enable Hyperlink Rollover Effects option and then click Rollover Style. You will now see the Font dialog box. Choose a style that you want your normal hyperlinks to change to. When you've finished, click OK twice to close the dialog boxes. 

In fact, if you're using a mouse-over hyperlink, you might just want to make the text bold or italicize it and change the color, rather than changing the font style altogether. 

You want a picture to have a muted look--or maybe one particular image just shouldn't be the focus of your visitors' attention. If that's the case, there's an easy solution. 
Select the picture, then click the Washout button on the Image toolbar. (It's the icon that looks like a grayed-out picture of a mountain.) Note that clicking the Washout button again won't undo the task; in this case, you'll have to press Ctrl-Z if you don't like the washout effect. 

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Hit Counter
If you'd like to jazz up yours, take a look at the following Web site and find one that's right for you: 

http://www.alberta-ca.com/frontpage/index2.html 

Become a Publisher
Well, that Web site of yours is all polished, spit-shined, and ready to go. Now you just have to publish it so the world can get a look-see at all your hard work.?  FrontPage makes publishing your Web fairly straightforward. 

Start by choosing File, Publish Web. If you click the Options button in the Publish Web dialog box, you'll see a few additional choices--like Only Publishing Changed Pages or Including Sub webs.  Once you're done, enter the URL or the file path for the published Web. Click the Publish button, then sit back and congratulate yourself on your new job title as publisher. 

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Picking up where you left
In most programs, it's easy to return to the document you were working on when you exited the program. FrontPage lets you choose from lists of your recent files or webs. 

But FrontPage makes it even easier to return to the last web you worked on before you exited the program: You can have FrontPage automatically open your most recent web when you launch the program. To do so, first choose Tools, Options and click the General tab. Select the Open Last Web Automatically When FrontPage Starts option in the Startup section and click OK. 

The next time you launch FrontPage, it will automatically open your web and display a new, blank page. If you'd prefer to work on an existing page, just click the X in the top-right corner of the new page's header bar and open the page you want to edit. 

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So, how do you freeze your background image? Easy--just pull down the Format menu, choose Background, and in the Formatting section, select the Watermark option. (This option doesn't, as you might think, fade the background image; you use another command.) 

To add a background color to your page after you've already inserted a background image, Reopen the Page Properties dialog box by selecting Format, Background or by right-clicking the page on the Normal tab and choosing Page Properties. Then, click the Background tab. 

In the Colors section, click the Background drop-down arrow and choose a color that's similar to the predominant color in your background image. (You can choose from the More Colors palette if you don't find anything appropriate in the Standard colors palette.) Click OK when you've finished. 

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You'll be happy to know you can restore the full menus you're accustomed to. Begin by right-clicking a toolbar or the menu bar and choosing Customize. Next, click the Options tab and select the Menus Show Recently Used Commands First option. Click Close to disable the command. 

After you click Close, you'll notice that your menus are stable and look the way you're used to seeing them. 

MetaTag 
You probably won't run across the META tag if you edit only on the Normal tab. The META tag appears at the top of your HTML document in the header area, which is invisible to the viewer. But if you want your web site to get noticed by Internet search engines, you should get to know a couple of META tag elements Description and Keywords. This is particularly true if your page is light on text (especially informative text) and heavy on graphics. 

To aid search engines in finding your web page, you should supply certain information to these META tag elements: 

Description: one or two sentences that describe the page's content 
Keywords: synonymous words and short phrases that describe the page's content and purpose 

Now that you know a bit about the tag, here's how to use FrontPage to enter META information in your web page. First, choose File, Properties and click the Custom tab. Under User Variables, click the Add button. In the Name text box, type the word Description In the Value text box, type a brief description of the page. Click OK, then click the Add button again. In the Name text box, type the word Keywords.  In the Value text box, type your synonyms, separated by commas, and click OK. Click OK to return to your page. 

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Second, you can run a spell-check after you've finished typing your text. Using the spell-checker is pretty intuitive, so we'll just tell you how to get to it. To check spelling on a page in Page view, start the spell-checker in one of these three ways: 

Press F7. 
Click the Spelling button on the Standard toolbar. Choose Tools, Spelling. 

Checking spelling on multiple pages
To check spelling on multiple pages or over your entire web, start by switching to Folders view. If you want to spell-check multiple pages--but not the whole web--open the appropriate folder in the left-hand Folder list window and select the individual files in the right-hand window. To select adjacent files, press the first file, hold down the Shift key, and press the last file you want to check. To select nonadjacent files, click on one of the files, hold down the Ctrl key, and click each file you want to check. 

Once you've selected the appropriate files, launch the spell-checker. When the Spelling dialog box opens, specify whether you want to check the spelling of the selected pages or the entire web. You can also have FrontPage add a task for each page that has misspellings by selecting the Options check box. The task will remind you to correct the misspellings later. 

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Creating a blank page in a themed web
When you specify a theme for your web, each page you add carries the theme's colors, fonts, and graphic elements. However, there are times when you want to turn off the theme elements on one or two specific pages. To do this, start by adding a new page in Page view. Then, choose Format, Theme, or right-click the page background and choose Theme. Click the Selected Page(s) option and choose the (No Theme) option. Then, click OK. When you return to Page view, you'll find that FrontPage has removed all the theme elements from your page. 

Should you wish to add the theme back, just choose Format, Theme; select the Selected Page(s) option; choose the (Default) entry; and click OK. 

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To use individual theme elements, you first need to verify the exact name of the theme your web is using. Do this by right-clicking a page background, choosing Theme, and noting the name at the top of the theme list. 

Now for the Windows stuff: Begin by clicking Start, Find, Files or Folders. On the Name And Location tab, type the key word in your theme's name. For example, type 'Factory' 

For the Geared Up Factory theme. Click Find Now. If Windows doesn't find your theme, try using a different key word or truncate the theme name. (Remember, at this point, you aren't sure exactly what you're looking for, so it might take a couple of tries.) 

When Windows displays your theme's location--it should be listed in a couple places--double-click the entry for the Windows temporary folder to display the graphic files in Windows Explorer. If Quick View is installed on your computer, you can preview the graphics. Just click a file icon, then choose File, Quick View. When you find a graphic (or two) that you like, Copy it to your Windows desktop by using the Edit, Copy command or by holding down the Ctrl key as you drag the file to the desktop. We cannot emphasize enough that you Copy the file. 

Back in FrontPage, insert the graphic(s) from the desktop and save the graphics when prompted. 

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Before you deem your web "finished," you'll want to clean up your filenames and folder names, making them more descriptive and consistent. To do so, first display your web in the Folder list in either Page view or Folders view. Right-click the file or folder and choose Rename (or click the file or folder and press F2). Type a new name in the space provided, and be sure to use the same file extension. Press Enter. When FrontPage prompts you to update the pages that have hyperlinks to this page, choose Yes. 

Remember, you should always rename files and folders inside FrontPage. Windows Explorer can't update links, and if you rename them in Windows, you'll have to re-create your web in FrontPage's Navigation view. Also, be careful not to change or delete a file's extension--the file can become unusable if you do. 

Multiple FrontPage can run at then same time
As it turns out, one of the new features of all the Office 2000 applications is the capability of running multiple instances of the programs. For example, if you're working in Word and you want to open a new document, Word will launch a second copy of itself. 
FrontPage will launch an additional copy of itself when you choose the Window, New Window command; open an existing web; create a new web; or open a page in a closed web. 

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To specify a default preview browser, first choose File, Preview In Browser. Choose a browser in the Browser section and select a size in the Window Size section. (If your other browsers don't appear in the Browser section, just click the Add button and, in the Add Browser dialog box, click the Browse button and locate and select your browser. Click Open, type the browser's name and version in the Name text box, and click OK.) Finally, click the Preview button. 

Loading large image more quickly
There are many things you can do to ensure that your images load quickly. Here's a trick that takes advantage of the fact that multiple small images often load faster than one large image--you simply chop your large image into small chunks and then use a table to compile the chunks into the full image. 

You can use nearly any image editor (even Windows Paint) to crop your image into sections. Once you have your images ready, just follow these steps in FrontPage. In a page on the Normal tab, insert a one-row, one-column table. Insert the chunks of your image, in order from left to right and top to bottom. Right-click inside the table and choose Table Properties (or choose Table, Properties, Table from the menu). Now, set Cell Padding, Cell Spacing, and Borders Size to 0 (zero) and click OK. 

Back in the Page view, drag the right table border to the left. If you cropped your images correctly, the pieces should come together to form the large image. 

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You could use the standard table grid and just leave certain cells empty, but there's a better way: You can merge adjacent cells in multiple rows or multiple columns--or both. To do this, just select the cells you want to combine, then pull down the Table menu and choose Merge Cells. 

Now, when you do, FrontPage will merge the cells, applying formatting based on different criteria: 

• Cell formatting--such as border color, background color or picture, horizontal and vertical alignment that you apply in the CellProperties dialog box--will be based on the formatting of the topmost and/or leftmost cell you merged. 
• Text formatting--such as text alignment, font style and color, highlighting, and bold--will still apply to each paragraph of text and will override any cell formatting.

In general, you should use whatever method is most appropriate for the information you're presenting. In most cases, you should arrange lists in order logically, alphabetically, or by date or importance. The arrangement should be obvious to your viewers as soon as they see your page. 

Arrange most people, organizations, titles, etc. in alphabetical order. It's okay to arrange historical, literary, or artistic periods by date. You might list geographic links either alphabetically by state or country, or you might subdivide them by region or continent before listing them alphabetically. 

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To reach these settings, which apply to the entire table, right-click inside the table and choose Table Properties from the shortcut menu. Then, type a new value or use the spinner arrows to increase or decrease the value in the text box. Click Apply to preview the new settings' effect, and click OK to return to the editing window. 

Shortcut for undoing your last action 
FrontPage has a number of features that let you "change your mind." The most useful of these is the Undo command, which you can use to (obviously) undo up to 30 of your most recent actions, including things like inserting a table, linking a picture, or formatting text. The Redo command lets you change your mind and restore your original action.

Undo--Press Ctrl-Z
Redo--Press Ctrl-Y 

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1 pixel of cell padding
2 pixels of cell spacing
1 pixel border 
center alignment on the page 
a relative width of 100 percent 

A second way to insert a table lets you change these default properties as you create the table. Pull down the Table menu and click Insert, Table to open the Insert Table dialog box. Here you can specify the number of rows and columns, the alignment, the relative or absolute width of the table, the width of the border, and the amount of cell padding and spacing. Once you've made your choices, click OK to insert the table. 

There's a third method that gives you a great deal of freedom over the look of your new table--you can draw it. To do this, first select Table, Draw Table. The mouse pointer will change its appearance to a pencil. Now you can begin drawing. This feature takes some getting used to. 
Here are some tips to get you started. 
If the Tables toolbar isn't displayed, right-click any toolbar and select Tables. 
Select and deselect the pencil tool by clicking the Draw Table button on the Tables toolbar or by selecting Table, Draw Table. 
When the mouse pointer is outside a table, it will let you draw rectangles (new tables). Inside a table, the pencil tool will let you draw only lines. 
Start by drawing the outside borders of the table. To do this, click and drag a rectangle as large as you want. 
Draw rows and columns by clicking and dragging horizontal and vertical lines from border to border inside the table. 
Widen, lengthen, or narrow cells by clicking and dragging the cell's borders. 

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 The second table will generally insert into the first cell; it might insert into a lower row or a column to the right of the first. Or you can subdivide a table by drawing rows and columns instead of nesting tables. 
Erase cell borders (to merge cells or to delete whole cells) by clicking the Eraser button on the Tables toolbar and click-and-drag over lines in the table. FrontPage will highlight the selected line(s). When you release the mouse button, the line(s) will disappear. 
Delete whole tables--and all tables nested inside them--by deselecting the pencil tool; moving the cursor over the table's right border until a dark, right-pointing arrow appears; clicking the border; and pressing the Delete key or by pressing Ctrl-X (the Cut command). 

Pinpointing html code 
If you're working in the Editing window and you want to quickly view the HTML code for the item you're working on (table, text, image, whatever), simply highlight the item before you click the HTML tab. Because the windows are synchronized, the item you highlighted in the Editing window will also be highlighted in the HTML window. This feature is extremely helpful, as anyone who's ever tried to locate specific information on a page of HTML knows! 

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To create a thumbnail of any image (pictures or clip art), simply select the image and press 
Ctrl-T. FrontPage creates a second, 100-pixel-wide copy of your image. Obviously, this image has lots less detail than the original, and so it has fewer bytes and a smaller file size. And as we know, a smaller image makes for a faster-loading page. 

You can change the size of a thumbnail (and its file size, as well) by right-clicking it, choosing Picture Properties, selecting the Appearance tab, clicking the Specify Size option, and entering a new value for the Width or Height option. When you save the page, FrontPage will prompt you to save this smaller image in your web. 

When you click your FrontPage auto-thumbnail in a browser, the original image will open in the same browser window, replacing the page you were viewing when you clicked the thumbnail. In this case, you'll need to press the Back button to return to the original page. This is usually okay. However, if your text refers to the image, your viewer will have to switch back and forth between the text page and the image. 

For the convenience of your viewers, you can have the original image open in a second browser window. It isn't hard to do--it just involves making a manual change to the HTML code. To begin, click the picture, then click the HTML tab at the bottom of the Editing window. Locate the section of the picture's code that begins with A HREF=. 

After the filename of the original image file (which is enclosed in quotation marks) but before the closing character, enter this tag: 

target="_blank" 

This tag attribute forces the browser to send the original picture to a blank target window--or, stated another way, a new browser window. 

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After you've inserted the photo into your page-in-progress, click on it to select it. FrontPage will automatically display the Pictures toolbar below your Page view. Click the Auto Thumbnail button--it looks like a photo, with a miniature of the same photo in front ofit. FrontPage will create the thumbnail and add a blue border so folks know it contains a hyperlink to the larger photo. 

But what if the default size is too small, or you don't like the border. It's easy to change the default options. 

First, click Tools, Page Options, then select the AutoThumbnail tab. Here, you can change the default size of your thumbnails by 
setting the height or width changing the thickness of the blue border around the image (or getting rid of it) giving the thumbnail a beveled edge, which makes it look more like a button. 

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With this effect, your paragraph of text appears in the normal font except when the mouse is directly over it. At that time, the text changes color, font size, or style, or it becomes bold or italic--whatever effect(s) you assign it in FrontPage. 

Here's how to apply this effect. First, click in or move the cursor to the appropriate text. Then, choose the Dynamic HTML Effects command from the Format menu to display the DHTML Effects toolbar. Click the leftmost drop-down arrow (next to the On command) and choose Mouse Over. Click the next drop-down arrow, beside Apply, and choose Formatting. Click the third drop-down arrow and select Choose Font. When the Font dialog box opens, select the effect(s) you want to use--a different font color, for example. Click OK to exit the dialog box. 

FrontPage places a shaded box around the text in Normal view to indicate a DHTML effect has been applied. Now, check your page in the Preview tab. When you move the mouse over the text, it changes color. 

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To add a caption to a table, click anywhere in the table, then select Table, Insert, Caption. FrontPage will add a centered caption just above the table. You can type the appropriate text at this point. If you want to move the caption to just below the table, select Table, Properties, Caption, then select the Bottom Of Table option. 

If you wish, you can change the caption's formatting inside the Caption Properties dialog box by clicking the Style button and then the Format button, but it's easier to do so by using options on the Formatting toolbar. 

A shortcut for removing text formatting 
It's easy to return formatted text to the default font, size, style, and color--just highlight the text and press Ctrl-Spacebar. You can use this shortcut to remove any formats you can apply in the Font dialog box as well as highlight color and DHTML effects. 

Remember, the default font for a theme overrides the "default font" you've set on the Default Font tab of the Page Options dialog box. 

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To add background sound to a page, you right-click the page in Page view's Normal tab, choose Page Properties, and click the General tab. In the Background Sound section, click the Browse button next to Location and select the sound you want to use. Next, deselect the Forever option (in most cases) and choose a Loop setting. Click OK to return to the Editing window. 

In Normal view, you won't see any indication that you've added a background sound to your page. However, you can hear it when you click the Preview tab, and you can see its tag at the top of the document. 

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Here's how you do it: Start by clicking the Insert Table button on the Standard toolbar and specifying a two-column, single-row table. Click in the appropriate table cell and use the Insert menu's Picture command to add clip art or an image file to the cell. Next, type your text in the other cell. At this point, remove the borders and ready the table for exact dimensions by right-clicking the table, choosing Table Properties, changing the Borders Size option to zero, clicking the Specify Width section's In Pixels option, and clicking OK. 

By default, the text aligns vertically in the middle of the cell; to align it with the top or bottom of the picture, right-click the text, choose Cell Properties, and specify Top or Bottom for the Vertical Alignment option. Next, add horizontal space between the picture and text by clicking on the appropriate side of the picture and pressing the spacebar as many times as needed. Finally, click and drag the cells' borders to set the exact width of the text and picture. Then, take a look at your text and picture in the Preview tab. 

This method works best when the text relates directly to the picture and the two need to be placed side by side. It's also the best method for creating an illustrated heading or for locating a caption beside the picture it relates to. You should use a table when you need to align the edges of the text and picture or align the edge of the picture with the margin--this capability isn't always possible using the alternative method. 

The second way to place text and pictures side by side involves inserting a picture on the page and simply letting the text flow around it. 

To use this method, you should first add the text to the page. Next, place the cursor anywhere in the text, choose the Insert menu's Picture command, and select a picture from a file or a piece of clip art. Then, to place the picture at the left or right edge of the page, click the image, pull down the Format menu, choose Position, select the Left or Right option in the Wrapping Style section, and click bbbbOK. 

If you wish to add some space between a picture and the text, you right-click the picture, choose Picture Properties, select the Appearance tab, increase the Horizontal Spacing and/or Vertical Spacing value(s), and click OK. If you increase the horizontal spacing, FrontPage will add the space at both the left and right edges; if you increase the vertical spacing, it will be added both above and below the image. The extra spacing keeps the picture from aligning with the adjacent text or margin--an unavoidable fact of HTML life--and is the only drawback to this method. 

To relocate a picture, simply click it and drag up or down. Alternatively, you can drag the picture's text anchor--the right- or left-pointing boxed arrow. The picture doesn't move as you drag; when you release the mouse, the text anchor moves to the release point; the picture moves to the designated margin on the line below the release point. 

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These linked headings are sometimes called anchors; FrontPage refers to them as bookmarks. There are a couple of ways to create these bookmarks; we'll show you the easiest method.

Here's the first part: Scroll through your document text. When you reach a section you want to link to, click at the beginning of the relevant text, pull down the Insert menu, and choose Bookmark. Type a short, descriptive name in the Bookmark Name text box. 
(The page's existing bookmarks are listed beneath this text box.) Click OK. Scroll to the next section you want to link to and repeat the steps we just described. Continue adding bookmarks to your page. A small, blue flag will represent the location of each of your bookmarks in the Editing window. 

Here's the second part: At the top of the document, add the text or section names you want to use to link to your bookmarks. Then, highlight the text you'll link to the first bookmark, click the Hyperlink button on the Standard toolbar (or press Ctrl-K), click the drop-down arrow on the Bookmark option near the bottom of the Create Link dialog box, choose the appropriate bookmark name, and click OK. 

When you look at your page in the Preview tab or in a Web browser, the text at the top will be underlined, just like any other hyperlink. When you click the hyperlink, your bookmarked text will pop into view. Bookmarked text doesn't carry any special formatting; only the hyperlink is noticeable. 

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You simply define a single bookmark at the top of the page. Then, you create a single hyperlink, which you copy and paste at the end of each section. In essence, you use the same technique--only in reverse--that you use to link from the top of the page to sections farther down on the page. 

For example, you might place the cursor just before the first word of text, choose the Insert menu's Bookmark command, enter 'Top'  in the Bookmark Name text box, and click OK. Then, move to the end of the first section in the document and, on a blank line, type 

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Drag across the above text and press Ctrl-K (the Insert Hyperlink shortcut). In the Create Hyperlink dialog box, choose Top in the Bookmark drop-down list and click OK. Drag across the new hyperlink and press Ctrl-C to copy it. Move to the end of the next section, create a blank line, and press Ctrl-V to paste another copy of the new hyperlink. Continue pasting copies of the hyperlink at the end of each section. 

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These "links to nowhere" can be a real pain when you're searching the Web. When they're on YOUR Web site, it's downright embarrassing. You can be thankful that FrontPage 2000 includes a feature--Verify Links--that checks your internal and external hyperlinks for you. To use this feature, you must first be online. Also, you should save all your open pages either manually or with the Tools menu's Recalculate Hyperlinks command. (We'll talk more about this command at a later time.) If you don't have a browser open, FrontPage will check your links in the browser specified for your Preview In Browser command.

When you're ready to verify your hyperlinks, click the Reports option in the View bar. If necessary, display the Reporting toolbar by right-clicking a visible toolbar and choosing Reporting. Click the first drop-down arrow and choose Broken Links from the drop-down list. If you want to check only some of your web's links, select the relevant entries in the Broken Hyperlinks window. 

Now, click the Verify Hyperlinks button at the right end of the Reporting toolbar. FrontPage will take a few moments to locate the specified links. For those it finds, you'll see the word OK in the Status column. For the links it can't find, the Status cell will say Broken. You can right-click these broken links and choose to either change the hyperlink or edit the page. If you change the hyperlink, FrontPage will also change the link address in your page. 

Be sure to use this command frequently if you have lots of links to sites outside your own web. Also, you should verify your hyperlinks whenever you make major changes to your web. 

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Here's a much easier way to superscript and subscript text. To create superscripted text (smaller than and slightly above the normal text), press Ctrl-Equal Sign before you type the character(s) you want to superscript. Press Ctrl-Equal Sign after you type the superscripted text to return to normal text. FrontPage will enclose your text with ^and tags. 

subscripted text, and press Ctrl-Minus Sign again to return to normal text. FrontPage will enclose your text with and </sub> tags. 

By the way, a superscripted lowercase "o" makes a nice substitute for the degree symbol when you're expressing temperatures or latitudes and longitudes. 

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You can also use a picture as a hyperlink. When the viewer clicks the picture, the browser displays the new page. In fact, picture hyperlinks operate in virtually the same way as thumbnails--but instead of taking you to a Web page, a thumbnail generally displays only an image file. 

Here's how to create a hyperlink for a picture. First, right-click the picture and choose Hyperlink. (You can alternatively click the picture and either press Ctrl-K or click the Hyperlink button on the Standard toolbar.) In the Create Hyperlink dialog box, you can select a page in the current web from the list at the top of the box. Or you can link to a page on the Web or a file on your computer by clicking one of the first two buttons to the right of the URL text box. 

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This is first line 
Another line of text 
Third  line 

In FrontPage, you can apply a hanging indent to any paragraph. Place the insertion point marker in a paragraph and select Format, 
Paragraph. Then, enter 
50 
in the Before Text edit box and 
-50 
in the Indent First Line edit box. You can choose a different value if you wish; the value is measured in pixels. The Preview window shows the effect of your Indentation settings. Click OK to return to your page. 

If you wish, click the HTML tab to see the code behind the hanging indent. Here's our code: 
<p style="text-indent: -50; margin-left: 50"> 

By the way, if you've heard the phrase "inline style" and don't know what it is, well, you've just seen one. 

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Let's look at some of the ways you can customize your table borders. To begin, right-click a table and choose Table Properties to open the Table Properties dialog box. We'll play with the options in the Borders section. First, increase the size of the border to a setting from 6 to 10 points. 

Since the Color options are all set to Automatic, you'll notice the default, beveled border style, which has a lighter border at the top and left side and a darker border at the bottom and right side. If you want to convert the beveled border to a solid border, all you need to do is choose a specific color in the Color drop-down list. Even if you choose the same color as the Automatic setting--black--you'll get a solid, non-beveled border. 

To change the colors of a beveled outside border, just specify different colors in the Light Border and Dark Border drop-down lists. 
The terms "Light Border" and "Dark Border" don't really have anything to do with lightness and darkness--rather, the light border is the color on the top and left side; the dark border is the color on the bottom and right side. 

The border colors you choose in the Table Properties dialog box apply not only to the table's outer border but also to each cell's border--but this time, the Light Border color appears on the cell's bottom and right borders; the Dark Border appears on the cell's top and left borders. You can change the cell border to a single color by setting the Color option; you can change the light and dark borders by specifying colors for those options. And since you apply cell border colors to individual cells (by right-clicking a cell and choosing Cell Properties), you can design an extremely colorful table with very little effort. 

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Fortunately, FrontPage has a tool that allows you to smooth out a resized picture's rough edges. To use the tool, select your resized picture and click the Resample button on the Pictures toolbar. In a moment, you'll see a smoother or sharper image. (Remember, you can always choose the Restore button to start again from scratch with the last-saved version of your picture.) When your picture looks the way you want, be sure to save your page (and also save the new, resized, and resampled image) before you view it in the Preview window or in a browser.

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To add a button to an existing toolbar, start by right-clicking any visible toolbar and choosing customize from the shortcut menu. On the commands tab, scroll through the categories and the commands lists. When you find a command you want, simply drag it to the appropriate toolbar. Finally, click the customize dialog box's close button. 

For example, the views bar button is in the views category in the customize dialog box. We dragged it beside the folders list button on the standard toolbar, where it will be handy for opening and closing the views bar. 

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To change a button's appearance, start by right-clicking any toolbar and choosing Customize. With the Customize dialog box open, right-click the button you want to change and take a look at the available options. To display the button's command name, choose the Text Only (Always) option. If you want to display the command name and the icon, select the Image And Text option. To reset the button to the icon only, choose the Default Style option on the shortcut menu. When you've finished, click the Customize dialog box's Close button. 

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Alternate text appears in the picture's placeholder as the browser loads your picture. It also appears in a ToolTip that FrontPage displays when your mouse hovers over the image. In special browsers for sight-impaired users, alternate text is converted to audio, so those users can "hear" your picture along with the rest of the text on the page. In text-only browsers and browsers with images turned off, the alternate text will appear where the image would otherwise be. 

Here's how to provide alternate text for your pictures: Right-click your picture, choose Picture Properties, and in the Alternative Representations section, enter a meaningful description of your picture in the Text edit box. 

Be sure your alternate text explains the purpose your picture serves--don't just enter the picture's filename. For instance, instead of entering something like "park-pic.jpg" or "yellow.gif" or even "Yellowstone Park," your conservation-sensitive alternative could be something like "Yellowstone Park's fragile ecology is being jeopardized by the millions of tourists who flock here each year to see its beauty." 

Be sure to provide alternate text for your thumbnails and hyperlinked pictures, too. In this case, though, it's a good idea for the alternate text to tell where clicking the picture will send the viewer--and maybe even what they'll find when they get there. 

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If your picture isn't in a format that supports transparency, FrontPage will ask, as soon as you click the Set Transparent Color button, if you want to convert the picture to a GIF. When you click OK, you'll be allowed to click a color to make it transparent. After you click OK, though, be sure to preview your picture--sometimes an image converted to a GIF will lose a lot of detail. (You can press the Undo button at this point--since you haven't saved the image as a GIF, you can still undo the action.) 

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You can change not only the appearance of individual thumbnails but also a few elements of the default appearance for all thumbnails. To do this, select Tools, Page Options, then click the AutoThumbnail tab. Here, you can set a new default size, change the width of the border (or delete it altogether), or add a beveled edge to the thumbnail. Click OK when you've made your choices. From now on--until you change it--all your thumbnails will carry this default formatting. 

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You can color an entire table, and you can color individual cells. To color a table, right-click anywhere in the table and choose Table Properties. In the Background section, click the Color drop-down arrow and select a color from the default palette or the More Colors palettes. Click Apply if you want to make additional changes; click OK to return to your page. 

To color individual cells, right-click the cell and choose Cell Properties. Then, click the Background section's Color drop-down arrow and select a color. Click Apply or OK to set the cell's new color. 

Incidentally, if you turn off your table's borders but keep your table's default Cell Spacing setting (2 points), each cell WILL include a "border" that's the color of the table background and as thick as the Cell Spacing setting. This border is obvious only if you color adjacent cells. If you want to get rid of this border, you should specify 0 for the Cell Spacing option. You can increase the apparent space between cells by increasing the Cell Padding setting. 

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To insert a scrolling marquee, click where you want to place the marquee, then click the Standard toolbar's Insert Component button (or choose Component from the Insert menu) and select Marquee. In the Text edit box, type the message you want to display. 

For the most part, you'll usually accept the default settings. But you might be interested in the options in the Behavior section. The Scroll option makes the text scroll in from one side, across the screen, and off the other side. The Slide option makes the text scroll in from one side and stop at the other side of the screen. The Alternate option makes the text slide from one edge to the other and back again. 

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To turn a picture into an image map, you first insert the picture. Then, decide which areas you'll "map" as links to other Web pages or sites. You can map rectangular, circular, or polygonal areas on the picture. For the first link, click one of the shape tools near the right end of the Pictures toolbar and drag a "hotspot" (the clickable area that contains the link) on the picture. As soon as you finish drawing the shape, FrontPage will present the Create Hyperlink dialog box. Choose the target site or page just as you would with any other hyperlink. For the second and subsequent links, just repeat these steps. 

As you create your image map, you should follow these general guidelines: 
Do not overlap any clickable areas. Move, resize, or reshape the hotspot if necessary to avoid overlapping hotspots. (Overlapping hotspots confuse most browsers.) 
Make sure each hotspot is large enough to provide a reasonable clickable area at any screen resolution. Remember, the higher the resolution, the smaller the hotspot will appear. 
Don't rely on the image map exclusively. Include alternate text links for text-only browsers, and use one of your navigation bars to offer the same links as in the image map. 
Don't crowd too many links onto a single image--complex image maps can be very confusing to navigate. 

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We couldn't find a command that would let us add alternate text for each hotspot. However, it's very easy to enter the code on the HTML tab. Just select the image before you switch to the HTML tab. Now all you have to do is find the tag for each link and then, just in front of the > character, type a space followed by 

ALT="Enter your Alternate Text here" 

Of course, you enter YOUR alternate text, but be sure to include the quotation marks. You can type ALT or alt or Alt--HTML isn't case-sensitive--but type the text enclosed in quotation marks exactly as you want it to appear; quoted text in the ALT attribute IS case-sensitive. Also, be sure to provide a meaningful message here--since it's a hyperlink, it's a good idea to show where the link will take the browser. 

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FrontPage's Easter egg is of the simple variety--but you might enjoy seeing some of the video effects the screen uses to list the programmers' names. To display the FrontPage Easter egg, hold down the Shift key and perform these steps: 

Pull down the Help menu, choose About Microsoft FrontPage, and click OK. 
Pull down the Help menu and choose About Microsoft FrontPage. 
When you've seen enough, click the X in the window's upper-right corner. 

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You can apply this effect not only to any image on the page but also to the page's background image. To wash out a background picture, just click anywhere on the page's background and click the Wash Out button. 

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Fortunately, adding text atop a FrontPage graphic is easy. Start by clicking the graphic image to select it. Then, click the Text button on the Pictures toolbar (the button that looks like the letter A) to insert a box with a blinking cursor on the image. Type your message and click outside the text box. 

You can use any of FrontPage's text-formatting tools and commands to format text you place on an image. And you can resize the text box by clicking and dragging its handles. Also, you can move the text box anywhere on the image by clicking it and dragging. 

If you look at the HTML code associated with the text, you'll see that FrontPage creates it as an image map. Not surprisingly, you can hyperlink this text box to one URL and the image to a totally different URL. 

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When you want to draw quick attention to a bit of text, making it blink will probably do the trick. Here's how you apply this effect: 
Drag over the text you want to make blink, press Alt-Enter (or choose Format, Font) to open the Font dialog box, click the Blink option in the Effects area, and choose OK. Save your page and view it in Netscape Navigator (not on the Preview tab--it's based on Explorer and won't display the effect). If Netscape isn't your default browser, you can select it by choosing File, Preview In Browser; highlighting the Navigator option; and clicking the Preview button.

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Here's how to crop an image. First, click the graphic to enable the commands on the Pictures toolbar. Then, click the Crop button, which looks like a couple of diagonal Xs. A rectangle will appear on the picture. You can resize this rectangle by moving its corner or side handles (the little black squares), or you can draw your own rectangle around the area of the picture you want to keep. When you've selected the crop area, press Enter or click the Crop button again. In a moment, the rest of the picture will disappear. 

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To create a new, empty folder, right-click the folder you want to add a new subfolder to and choose New Folder. Then, type a name for the new folder and press Enter. 

To change your site's structure with the existing folders, just drag a folder to a new location. It might help to think of this in terms of family structure. For instance, to convert a "sibling" folder to a "child" of another folder, just drag and drop the sibling onto the other folder. To convert a subfolder (child folder) to a sibling folder, just drag and drop it onto the folder above the siblings (you guessed it--onto the "parent" folder). 

Don't worry about links: FrontPage updates them for you automatically. 

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If you'd like to give this macro a try, you can get it at 

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/fpvba.htm 

The instructions are clear and easy to follow. Although the directions don't explicitly say so, you can Copy the macro (by highlighting it and using the Ctrl-C shortcut) and paste it into the module window (using the Ctrl-V shortcut). 

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C:\Program Files\MicrosoftOffice\Templates\1033\Pages\ 

Select the normal.htm file and click the Open button. Now, change the background color by clicking on the blank page; choosing Format, Background; and selecting your color from the Colors section's Background drop-down palette. Click OK to set the background color, click the Save button to save the template file, and then close the file. The next time you click the New Page button, FrontPage will present you with a blank page that uses your custom background color. 

You can always return the default page to its standard background color by repeating these steps.

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Another way you can indent a paragraph from both sides is by using the BLOCKQUOTE tag. This tag has gone out of favor, but the major browsers still support it at present. To use this tag, highlight the paragraph you want to format and then click the HTML tab. Just before the start of the paragraph, type 

<BLOCKQUOTE> 

At the end of the paragraph, type 

</BLOCKQUOTE> 

This tag creates a standard indent (about 3/4 of an inch). You can double up on the tag to create deeper indentations--two 
<BLOCKQUOTE>s before the paragraph, two </BLOCKQUOTE>s after the paragraph. 

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Fortunately, FrontPage makes working with styles and style sheets pretty easy. But first, let's look at the three basic types of styles you can use in FrontPage and on the Web: 
Inline styles--Similar to line-by-line formatting in a word processor. 
Document, or embedded, styles--Styles that pertain to a single document; they're similar to document-specific styles in a word processor. 
External style sheets--Similar to a template you create or edit and then apply to any number of documents. 

You can use all three types of styles on the same page. However, what happens when you've defined "normal" text in an external style sheet AND as a document style? And what happens when you manually change the formatting of that same "normal" text with an inline style? 

Here's an important thing to know about mixing styles on a page: the order of precedence--in other words, how the styles "cascade" through your document. Here are the rules: 
If an inline style is attached to the text, the text will carry the formatting specified in the inline style. 
If no inline style is attached to the text, the text will carry the formatting specified in the document style. 
If no document style is attached to the text, the text will carry the formatting specified in the external style sheet. 
If no external, document, or inline style is attached to the text, it will carry the default formatting for text. 

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For example, you might apply character spacing in the Font dialog box, indention and line spacing in the Paragraph dialog box, or a highlight color or border in the Borders And Shading dialog box. In the HTML code, the style definition appears at the beginning ofthe paragraph(s) you selected. Inline styles don't cover simple formatting such as font color, alignment, font size, bold, oritalics--that stuff usually appears inside regular HTML tags, like <B> for bold or <FONT COLOR="blue" SIZE="1">. 

Here's an example of an inline style as it appears on the HTML tab: 

<p style="border-style:solid; border-color:#008080; text-indent:-50; margin-left:50"> 

Incidentally, this tag creates a paragraph that's normal in every way except that it has a hanging indent and a teal border. 

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To change the formatting of a standard style, choose Format, Style; pick All HTML Styles in the List drop-down box; highlight the name of the style you want to change; and click Modify. At this point, click the Format button and choose the desired formatting. You can apply any number of formats to your new style. Back out of the Styles feature by clicking OK in each dialog box. 

To define a generic document style you can use with any other style, choose Format, Style, then click the New button. Next, type a style name, click the Format button, and choose from the formatting options (Font, Paragraph, and so forth). Click OK to back out of the Styles feature. 

To define a restricted document style, choose Style from the Format menu, highlight the name of the desired style from the All HTML Styles list, and click Modify. Then, in the Name (selector) box, type a period after the existing entry and then a name for the new style. For example, to define a red heading 2, the entry should be 

h2.red 

Next, click the Format button and apply the desired formatting, then back out of the Styles feature by clicking OK in the dialog boxes. 

Once you've defined the styles, you're free to start using them. And using a document style is as easy as can be. Your new style will appear at the bottom of the Style list on the Formatting toolbar; just click in the text and choose the style name from the list. 

On the HTML tab, you can see your style definition near the top of the page. The following style definition shows that we created three styles--the first redefines the standard heading 1 style with a new color (green). The second defines a universal red style that colors whatever you apply it to (which might include a heading 1 style if you wish). The third style specifies a restricted heading 
style--h1.red--that you can use only to create red headings. 

<style> 
<!-- h1{ color: #008000 } .blue{ color: #0000FF } h1.red{ color: #FF0000 } --> 
</style> 

When you apply a new style to a paragraph, the HTML tag preceding the paragraph will include the new style name following the specifier class, like this: 

<H1> This is a normal green heading 1.</H1> 
<H1 CLASS="blue"> This is a blue heading 1.</H1> 
<H1 CLASS="red"> This is a red heading 1.</H1> 

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First, you define styles in a style sheet. Open a blank or predefined style sheet file by selecting File, New and clicking Page. In the New dialog box, click the Style Sheets tab and select one of the options. (Don't worry--if you don't like a style on a predefined sheet, you can modify it.) 

When the style sheet opens in Page view, you'll see lines of text and curly braces (or, if you chose the Normal Style Sheet option, you'll see a blank page!). That's pretty much all there is to an external style sheet. The first thing to do is save and name your style sheet. Be sure to save it either with your web or with your other style sheets. 

Once you've saved the style sheet, select Format, Style to see exactly what's in the style sheet. At this point, you can redefine standard styles, modify existing styles, or add new styles, just as you do with document styles.

The next step is to attach the style sheet either to the whole web or to individual pages. Then, you can start applying the external styles. 

To attach an external style sheet to the whole web, just open one of your web's pages and choose the Format menu's Style Sheet Links command. Click the All Pages option and then the Add button. Select your style sheet's name and click OK. 

To attach an external style sheet to a single page, you open that page and repeat the steps above, except you click the Selected Pages option instead of All Pages. You can even attach one style sheet to most of the web and then attach a different style sheet to selected single pages. The HTML tab will simply refer to the style sheet's name near the top of the page, as follows: 

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="woodys.css"> 

Once you've attached a style sheet, you start using it. To apply a style, simply place your cursor in the appropriate paragraph. 

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For example, say you want the words "Welcome to my Web page" to hop on to the screen word by word when the page loads. Type the words, then select them. Select Format, Dynamic HTML Effects. In the On box, choose the event that will trigger the animation--in this case, it's Page Load. In the Apply box, select Hop (there are also seven other effects to choose from). Close the DHTML Effects toolbar. You can view your handiwork by clicking the Preview Page View tab. 

Inserting symbols and special characters 
Sometimes, the standard keyboard just isn't up to snuff. What if you need to insert the symbol for British pounds, or a copyright or trademark symbol? Don't bother looking up the HTML codes--it's easy to insert them in FrontPage. 

Position your cursor where you want to insert the symbol. Choose Insert, Symbol. Make your selection, and click Insert, then Close. 

Remove text formatting 
Sometimes perfectly good Web designers go overboard with bold, underlined, italic, and colored text. If you decide after hours of work that you just can't stand the formatting on a page, don't worry. There's a quick and easy way to get rid of it. When you remove formatting, the text conveniently reverts to the default settings of its style. 

In Page view, select the text. Click Format, Remove Formatting. You can also press Ctrl-Shift-Z. 

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In Page view, select the paragraph around which you want to add a border. Or click anywhere in the paragraph--the border will still be applied to the entire paragraph. Select Format, Borders And Shading. For a four-sided border, click Box (under Setting). Then, you can set the properties by clicking options from Style, Color, and Width. 

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• Create a new page: Ctrl-N 
• Open a page: Ctrl-O 
• Create a hyperlink on a page: Ctrl-K 
• Preview a page in a Web browser: Ctrl-Shift-B 
• Print a page: Ctrl-P 
• Display non-printing characters: Ctrl-Shift-8 
• Display HTML tags: Ctrl- / 
• Refresh a page: F5 

• Change the font: Ctrl-Shift-F 
• Change the font size: Ctrl-Shift-P 
• Apply bold formatting: Ctrl-B 
• Apply an underline: Ctrl-U 
• Apply italic formatting: Ctrl-I 
• Apply superscript formatting: Ctrl-Plus Sign 
• Apply subscript formatting: Ctrl-Minus Sign 
• Copy formatting: Ctrl-Shift-C 
• Paste formatting: Ctrl-Shift-V 
• Remove manual formatting: Ctrl-Shift-Z or Ctrl-Spacebar 

• Delete one word to the left: Ctrl-Backspace 
• Delete one word to the right: Ctrl-Delete 
• Cut selected text to the Clipboard: Ctrl-X 
• Copy text or graphics: Ctrl-C 
• Paste the Clipboard contents: Ctrl-V 
• Insert a line break: Shift-Enter 
• Insert a non breaking space: Ctrl-Shift-Spacebar 
• One character to the right: Shift-Right Arrow 
• One character to the left: Shift-Left Arrow 
• To the end of a word: Ctrl-Shift-Right Arrow 
• To the end of a line: Shift-End 
• To the beginning of a line: Shift-Home 
• One line down: Shift-Down Arrow 
• One line up: Shift-Up Arrow 

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Simply click View, Reports, Broken Hyperlinks. FrontPage will list all the broken hyperlinks--if a hyperlink goes to an outside site, the status will be Unknown. 

To fix internal links, double-click a hyperlink with Broken status, then click Edit Page. If you know the correct URL, edit it in the Replace Hyperlink With box. Or, click Browse to find it in a web, file, or on the World Wide Web. To repair other occurrences of the same hyperlink in all pages in your web, click Change In All Pages, then click Replace. 

Add a group of files to your current web 
When you're inserting pictures in your page, it's easier if those picture files are already part of your web. And at some point, you'll need to have all the files associated with your web in one place, or you'll have broken links when you publish. But there's no need to add them all at once. You can import a group of files into your web at the same time. 

Switch to Folders View. Click File, Import. Click Add File in the Import dialog box. You should now see the Add File To Import List dialog box. Navigate to the directory where your graphics files are located. Select them (remember, to select multiple files, hold down Ctrl while you click on the files). Click Open, then click OK. 

To find last worked file
It's been a while since you worked on your Web page (no, we won't tell the Web police), and you can't remember where you put the last files you were working on. Rather than dredging through your memory, use this easy trick: If you choose File, Recent Files, you'll get a list of all the files you last had open. Similarly, choosing File, Recent Webs will display a list of all the Web sites you've been working on, if there are more than one. 

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Here's how to add one to your site. 

First, open your home page in Page view. Choose Format, Shared Borders, then click the All Pages button. (We're assuming that you want a navigation bar to appear on each page of your Web site.) Now you have a few choices: You can choose to have a navigation bar at the top, bottom, right, or left of your page. Or you can choose more than one of those options. For simplicity's sake, click on Top and Left. Select the Include Navigation Buttons option for both. Finally, click OK. You'll see a navigation bar on the left and a banner at the top of the page. 

When you add a navigation bar to the top of your page, you'll notice that you also get a page banner (that's the text across the top of the page). The page banner automatically uses the text of the page title--but this might not be the text you want to shout from the top of the page. If it's not, try the following: 

First, move to the page banner and double-click the text. In the resulting dialog box, look for the section called Page Banner Text. Highlight the text as it currently appears and then type in the text you'd like to see on your Web page. When you've finished, click OK. 
The page banner text will be changed. 

Once you've added a theme, changing colors, graphics, or text isn't rocket science. 

Once again, choose Format, Theme. In the Themes dialog box, at the bottom, you'll see a button labeled Modify. This is your ticket. Once you click that button, three other buttons will appear: Colors, Graphics, and Text. Click these buttons and fiddle around with the appearance of the theme. 

Here's an important note: When you've finished fiddling, click OK and then--back in the Themes dialog box--you'll see the option to save this newly constructed theme. Instead of clicking the Save button, click the Save As button. This way, if you decide later that you don't like the changes you made, it's easy enough to go back to the original theme and start again. Now that's using your head. 

Generally when you apply a theme, you want to apply it to your entire Web site. But there may be times when you want to apply it only to certain pages. Here's how: 

First, go to the Folders list and highlight only the pages that you want to have the new theme. (Tip in a tip: If the folders aren't next to each other, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard so you can select them.) Next, choose Format, Theme. When the Themes dialog box 
appears, make sure the option Apply Theme To Selected Page(s) is selected. Then, select the theme you want, and it will be applied only to the pages you chose. Don't forget to click the OK button to finish the job. 

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You know that if you want to undo something in FrontPage, you can, but what if you want to undo a lot of somethings? Say a few steps. Easy. Instead of undoing each individual step, FrontPage allows you to undo several at a time. Check out the Undo icon on the FrontPage toolbar. (It looks like an arrow that's pointing to the lower-left corner of the page.) To the right of that icon you'll notice a small menu arrow. Click and hold that arrow, and you'll see the last seven commands you just completed when you were working in FrontPage. Highlight as many items as you want; when you release your mouse button, FrontPage will undo them all. 

Serving up tables
When you go to insert a table on your Web page, you have the option of specifying the width of the table. And you can set the width either in pixels or in a percentage of the total width of the page. Skip the pixel option and go with the width of the page. Why? Well, it's not just because measuring in pixels seems a little absurd. It's also because different viewers have different-sized screens, and you'll be able to set the size of the table so it's appropriate for anyone looking at it--and that IS important. 

Spell that
Does your Web site have dozens of pages, all in need of a spell-check? Rather than doing the job page by page, use the secret shortcut and spell-check the whole site at once. 

First, go to the Folders view. Now click the Spelling button on your toolbar. (It looks like a check mark, with the letters ABC above it.) The Spelling dialog box will appear. Click the button that allows you to check spelling of the entire Web. Before you click the Start button to begin the spell-check, decide if you want to add a task for each page with misspellings. This might be a good idea if you think you're going to run into a whole pile of misspelled words and you don't have a lot of time. By selecting this option, you can wait until later to make all the changes. Click Start and let the spell-check begin! 

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First, go to the Folders view of your Web page. While you're there, highlight the pages where you want to apply the borders. (Note: If you want to select pages that aren't next to each other, hold down the Control key on your keyboard.) Once you've highlighted your pages, select Format, Shared Borders. In the Shared Borders dialog box, click Selected Page(s). Now choose the borders you want to apply and click OK. The shared borders will be applied to the pages you selected. 

What to put in a bottom border? This is the perfect spot to stash stuff like copyright and trademark information or to put contact information so people know how to reach you. 

To be sure that all your visitors will be able to see it properly, that doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole bunch of different monitors. Instead, you just have to change a few settings as you preview your page. 

Begin by choosing File, Preview In Browser. In the Preview In Browser dialog box, you'll see a section called Window Size. Here, you can select different screen sizes--640x480, 800x600, 1024x768. You should preview your page in all these different options. 

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One note: If you've already published your Web site and then renamed it, you'll have to republish it with the new name. 

Keep out 
Sometimes, you just want to keep things under wraps. If you have files for your Web page that you'd like to tuck away where co-workers won't have access to them, you can create a hidden file. To do that, choose File, New, Folder. When you name your new folder, make sure it begins with an underscore (for example, _keepout). That underscore ensures no 
one can see the private folder. 

To view all hidden folders, select Tools, Web Settings. In the Web Settings dialog box, click the General tab. Look for the option Show Documents In Hidden Directories. Once you select that option and click OK, you'll be able to see all hidden folders.

Doing it your way 
Some things just seem like they always have been and always will be a certain way. For example, when you're navigating through a Web site, you click Back to go back to the last page and Next to go to the next page. But the labels don't have to say these exact things: You CAN buck the trend. To change the way the labels appear on your navigation bars, select Tools, Web Settings. Next, click the Navigation tab. Make your customizations and then click OK. 

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To create a variable, begin by choosing Tools, Web Settings. Next, click the Parameters tab. To create the variable, click Add. In the Add Name And Value dialog box, you'll do just that--add a name and a value. In our example, the name would be something like "address" and the value would be the actual address of the business. When you've finished, click OK. 

You define a variable and then simply make one change to the value of the variable in order to update that information over your entire site. So, once you've created your variable, here's how to display it on your site. 

First, position your cursor where you want the variable information to appear on your page. Now select Insert, Component, Substitution. In the Substitution Properties dialog box, you'll see a white bar with a pull-down arrow on the right. Click on the pull-down arrow, and you'll see a list of variables. Choose the variable you want to add and click OK. 

The reason you created a variable in the first place is because you knew you'd have to update information. For example, you knew your company was moving and you'd have to change the address listed on the Web site, or you knew you were going to be changing a product name. To edit the variable you've created, first select Tools, Web Settings. Then, click the Parameters tab. Now highlight the variable you want to change and click the Modify button. 
Once your changes are complete, click OK. 

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Now, here are a few tricks for making this tool more user friendly--if you want to enter more than one definition for a term, press Shift and Enter at the same time. That will simply insert a line break instead of setting you up for another definition. When you've finished adding terms and definitions, press the Control and Enter keys at the same time--or just press the Enter key twice--and you'll return to Normal formatting. 

Who cares about status 
FrontPage automatically includes a status bar at the bottom of the screen. This status bar gives different information in different views; for example, it will provide you with the exact path to a file if you select it in the Folders view. But you might think that this status bar is just so much more clutter on your screen. To remove it from sight, select Tools, Options. In the Options dialog box, click the General tab. There, under the General section, you'll see a checkbox labeled Show Status Bar. Deselect the checkbox and click OK.  The status bar will automatically disappear from your screen. 

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Here's how to find out if your Web site includes any such snails. Select View, Reports, Site Summary. In the report that appears on the screen, you'll see a row called Slow Pages. As you read across that row, note the number of pages that are slow and the size of those pages. Now your only job will be to select those pages and cut them down to size. Who defines slow? If you know that all your site visitors are going to be using a T1 line, then slow means something different than if you're expecting folks who are still surfing on a 14.4-Kbps modem. FrontPage's default settings are for a page that takes 30 seconds to download on a 28.8-Kbps modem. To change the settings, select Tools, Options. In the Options dialog box, click the Reports View tab. There you'll see the settings you want to change. You can adjust the amount of time a slow page takes to download, and you can set the assumed connection speed. 

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Select the page where you'd like to attach a sound and right-click. Choose Page Properties from the context menu. In the Page Properties dialog box, click the General tab and look for the Background Sound section. In the Location box, enter the name of the sound file you'd like to play. The easiest way to do that is to click the Browse button, search your files until you find the sound file you'd like to add, and click OK. 

The last step is to set the number of times you'd like your sound file to repeat. In the Loop section, you'll see the Forever option, which is enabled by default. What that means is that your sound file will keep replaying and replaying and replaying, as long as your visitor is looking at your page. If that feels like overkill to you, deselect the Forever option and enter a specific number of times that you'd like the sound file to repeat. Finally, click OK. 

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The first thing to do when you're starting an outline is to position your cursor where you want the outline to begin. Now, select Format, Bullets And Numbering. The List Properties dialog box will appear. Click the Numbers tab. There you'll see several different numerical styles. Pick the one you'd like for the first level of your outline and click OK. 

The next step is to just start typing your outline. When you press the Enter key to select the next level of your outline, you'll notice that it doesn't automatically indent or give you a different numbering system. 

How to indent everything so it looks more like the outlines? 

You've typed in a series of items. Let's say the first line is SUMMER PARTY, and under that you have a series of items that you want to indent, such as: FRIED CHICKEN, LEMONADE, and WATERMELON. (By the way, we'll expect an invitation once you've figured out how to create your outline.) Go ahead and select all the food--in this case, that's all the stuff you want to indent. Now look on your toolbar for the Increase Indent icon; it has an arrow pointing to the right, with a bunch of lines next to it. Click that icon twice, and all your food will be neatly indented for your summer party menu. 

In order to make outline complete, you'll have to take one more step. Right now, everything's neatly indented, but it all has the same numbering system, Each level has a different lettering or numbering system. 

So here's how to do it right and get that A. Select the level of the outline whose numbering system you want to change. (Using our previous example, that's the list of food you'll be serving at your summer party.) Select the first item on that sublevel. Right-click and choose List Properties. You'll see that same List Properties dialog box, with different numbering styles. Choose the one you'd like for the sublevel you're working on and click OK. You'll notice that the change is applied to all items in that sublevel. (NOTE: The change won't apply to items on other sublevels. Even if the levels have the same amount of indentation, you'll have to select each sublevel separately to change the numbering.) 

You're building an outline and you made a mistake. Say you've indented items too far--turns out that your outline has changed and you want to move stuff up a level. Not a problem. Simply select the items you want to move and click the Decrease Indent icon on your FrontPage toolbar. 
It looks like an arrow pointing to the left, with a bunch of lines next to it. 

When you've finished with your outline, just press the Enter key twice to exit from all its intricate list-making properties. 

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Most important, you simply collapse the list by clicking on the level ABOVE the section that's collapsible. As a favor to your visitors, you might want to add some instructions to your site to explain that to them. 

Now, you might be testing this and thinking that this tip just doesn't work. It does. But the trick is that you have to view your page in Preview mode in order to see your list do its collapsing stuff. To do so, look at the lower left-hand corner of FrontPage and click the Preview tab. Now go ahead and test it. When you've finished, go back to editing by clicking the Normal tab. 

When creating a collapsible list, you also have an option to have the list collapsed when your Web page first opens. To do that, you have to make the whole list collapsible. But that's simple enough: Just highlight the entire list, then right-click and choose List Properties from the context menu. In the List Properties dialog box, select the Initially Collapsed option and click OK. 

Tip-in-a-tip: If you've followed all these instructions but you don't see List Properties as an option on the context menu, it could be that your list doesn't have enough levels. Don't worry--you don't have to add anything to the list. Simply select the very first item of the list and try again. 

Here's something to keep in mind when creating collapsible lists: This neat trick works only with Web browsers that support Dynamic HTML. (That's a fancy Web programming language.) And that could be a problem, because that means that it will work only for folks who use such browsers as Internet Explorer 4.0 (and higher) and Netscape Navigator 4.0 (and higher). So all those folks who use older versions of these browsers (or perhaps even other, less popular browsers) might miss out on your nifty collapsing lists. One way around this problem is just to be sure that the list isn't collapsed when viewers come to your page. That way, if they want and are able to collapse the list, they can. However, if they can't collapse it, they'll still be able to read all of the important data in the list. 

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To set this up, select Tools, Options. In the Options dialog box that appears, select the option Open Last Web Automatically When FrontPage Starts in the Startup section. Then click OK. Now your web will automatically launch when you open FrontPage. 
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Everything in its place
You can organize files by different categories--say business files or travel files or some such thing. Here's how to get the job done. 

Select View, Reports, Categories. You'll now see a list of all the different files you have in your web. (Note that there's a column called Category, which is probably blank. This is where you'll see the different categories for your files, once you assign them.) Select the file you want to categorize first. Right-click on the file and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog box, click the Workgroup tab. There, you'll see a list of categories. Choose the appropriate categories for the file in question. Be aware that you can choose more than one category for each file. When you've finished choosing categories, click OK. You will now see the category you selected in the Category column. 

What if you have several files that belong in the same category? Do you have to sit and file each one separately? Not at all. In the Category view, simply select all the files that belong in the same category, right-click, and choose Properties from the context menu. Select the Workgroup tab in the Properties dialog box, and then select the category that applies to all the files you selected. 

The categories that FrontPage provides--like Competition, Ideas, and Travel--don't work for you. No problem--just create your own categories. 

First, you need to get to the category list. Do that by right-clicking on any file in the Category view and selecting Properties from the context menu. In the Properties dialog box, click the Workgroup tab. There, you'll see the list of categories. You'll also see the Categories button. Click that button once and you'll see the Master Category list. To add your own category, simply type it in the New Category text box and click the Add button. When you've finished adding categories, click OK.

Categories are all well and good, but they're really not much use if all your Business files are lumped together with your Travel files. What you really need to do is view only one category of files at a time. 

While in the Category view, open the Reporting toolbar. To do this, select View, Toolbar, Reporting. The new toolbar will appear on your screen. Now, click the down arrow by the Report Setting box. (If you don't know which arrow that is, hold your cursor by the arrow for a moment. A label will appea