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Right click on your frameset HTM file.
Select Open With.
Choose Text Editor (NOTEPAD.EXE).
Add the following text to your <frameset> tag: frameborder="0" framespacing="0" border="no"

Example: <frameset rows="25%,75%" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" border="no">

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3) Creating a FTP/HTTP download Link in FrontPage

Within FrontPage Editor:

Open a page where you want to have an download link.
Either select a piece of text (such as "download update") or select an image.
Click on the link icon or press CTRL+K or Edit/Hyperlink.
Select "http:" for the protocol. The text box below the protocol should read "http:"
Type in the full URL of the file after the "/" in "http://"

Example:

http://www.yourdomain.com/update.zip

Note: Make sure you copy update.zip to your root directory or another directory within your web. If you use a subdirectory, make sure the address you specify includes the subdirectory name.

Click Ok.
Save your page, and publish.

You now have a download link

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4) Creating a email Link in FrontPage

These instructions apply to 1.1 and 97:

Within FrontPage Editor:

Open a page you want to have an e-mail link.
Either select a piece of text (such as "E-Mail us") or select an image.
Click on the link icon or press CTRL+K or Edit/Hyperlink.
Select "mailto:" for the protocol. The text box below the protocol should read "mailto:"
Type in your e-mail address after the ":" in "mailto:"
Click Ok.
Save your page, and publish.

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5) How do I remove underlines from hyperlinks?

In FrontPage 2000, you have to go into the source code. Find the href tag which will look something like this <a href="file.htm">link</a>. Add code like this. <a href="file.htm" STYLE="text-decoration: none;">. Alternately, you can produce a style sheet in the header of your html code or in an external .css file to turn off underlining in all your links. The code for that would look like this in the header.

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6) FrontPage 2000 is running really slow; how do I speed it up?

Did you download and install the FrontPage HTML Tools Addin from the Microsoft site? Choose Tools | Addins | and unselect it or remove it.
Delete the cached (and possibly corrupted) copies of your webs - Close FrontPage, and do a Find | Files and Folders | Named *.web, and delete them.
Delete your FrontPage Temporary Files - With FP running and your web open, Tools | Web Settings | Advanced, delete Temporary files.

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7) My graphics are not appearing on my page when it is published.

You probably have absolute paths to images on your computer's hard drive instead of relative paths to the images in your images folder. The most likely cause for this is that you edited your pages with FrontPage but not inside a FrontPage Web -- a web created by doing File > New > Web. Another cause can be that you inserted your images by browsing to them on your hard drive. You should always drag/drop your images into your images folder and then insert them onto pages by browsing to the images within your web.

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8) My site is a mess in Netscape, what should I do?

The most likely cause if this is that you designed your site using FrontPage absolute positioning. FrontPage 2000 absolute positioning does not work in Netscape browsers. You will have to rebuild your pages using tables to get your desired layout in Netscape.

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9) My navigation buttons don't show up; I only get text hyperlinks.

You may need to apply the theme. Go to Format/Theme and it will probably have "No Theme" selected. Select the desired theme.

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10) After I add a new page, I don't have navigation buttons.

You will need to add your new page to the navigation structure. Go to Navigation View, and drag your page from the folder list into the nav structure. Also, you may need to edit the nav/link bar properties to reflect the correct level of pages that you are trying to link to. Please go to our tutorials on navigation bars to learn more.

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11) My buttons don't have rollover effects when I preview the page.

If you are in Preview mode of FrontPage, this is normal. Preview mode does not show rollover effects. If you go to File/Preview In Browser and view your page in a normal browser, the rollover effects should work. Otherwise, go to Format/Theme and make sure that the "Active Graphics" box is checked.

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12) How do I change the buttons or the text on my navigation bars?

The navigation/link bars are generated by Microsoft FrontPage. In 2000, the navigation bars are generated based on your navigation structure. Please view our tutorials on navigation bars. You may change the text on a button by changing the Page Title in navigation view. In 2002, you may create custom link bars. You may also choose the style of the buttons -- you may use the page's theme, or a different theme, or text styles.

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13) My new web is missing the shared borders.

There may be several reasons that this occurs. One is that the developer did not program the web template to automatically apply the shared border. Another possibility is that the theme was packaged with an old version of the installer, which did not correctly name web template folders. You can easily fix this by browsing to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs

and adding a ".tem" extension to the template's folder name. For example, change "computer" to "computer.tem" - this should fix the problem.

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14) How do I open my web site live?

File > Open Web > Type in your url (including http://) like this http://www.url.com > Open > Enter UserID and Password.

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15) Can I use an image instead of the submit button on a form?

Insert > Form > Picture. For an image reset button, just insert an image and hyperlink it to the page form page itself. This will refresh your page and reset the form.

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16) My page no longer resizes properly.

I accidentally messed up the table structure of the page and now I can't get it back.

You probably inadvertently dragged a table line, which will "freeze" the table at a certain width, making it no longer resizable. The easiest way to fix this is to copy your content into another page that works properly, then "Save As" over the page you want to replace.

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17) How do I add a music file/word doc/video clip/whatever so that users can click on a link and open/download it?

Drop the file into your web, and link to it the same way you link to a normal web page. You may need to zip the file if you want it to automatically download instead of opening.

Save Word docs as Rich Text Format (.rtf) files. That way those people who don't use the latest and greatest version of word will be able to read them too, as will those people who use another word processing package.

In Word > File > Save As > Then select Rich text format for m the drop down list.

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18) What's the difference between themes, page templates, and web templates?

Microsoft Themes define the look of navigation buttons, page banners, fonts, font colors, styles, horizontal rules, bullets, and a few other features. By applying a theme to your web, all of these features will be changed. Microsoft Page Templates, on the other hand, specify a specific page layout. They may incorporate Theme elements (for example, navigation bars), but have a pre-defined page design. It is then up to you to add your own content and create a web site with more pages. Microsoft Web Templates help you to create a new web. Using a Web Template will create a web that has a certain navigational structure in place already, with several pre-designed pages. Using the Web Template will help you to get started; it is then up to you to add your content and add or delete pages.

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19) The theme does not automatically apply when I create a new web.

There may be several reasons that this occurs. One is that the developer did not program the web template to automatically apply the theme. Another possibility is that the theme was packaged with an old version of the installer, which did not correctly name web template folders. You can easily fix this by browsing to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Webs

and adding a ".tem" extension to the template's folder name. For example, change "computer" to "computer.tem" - this should fix the problem.

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20) I see white (or some other solid color) areas in Preview Mode where there should be a table background.

This is probably because the developer used a transparent gif as a table background. Developers occasionally have to do this if there are backgrounds that go across several table cells. Some versions of Netscape have a bug that cause table backgrounds to tile within each cell unless the cell background is specified to be a transparent image. Go to File/Preview in Browser and the page should look fine.

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Information on this page was taken from the following sites:

	www.msfrontpage.net
	www.outfront.net
	www.spiderwebwoman.com
	www.pixelmill.net
	www.support.microsoft.com

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