Microsoft FrontPage #1



*1.  HOUSE OF MIRRORS

January 6th, 1999

You go to resize a photo of your mom and suddenly you've 
distorted her so badly that you think she might write you out 
of her will. Don't panic. 

- 1. First undo the damage by using the Ctrl + Z key
     combination.
- 2. Now that mom looks normal again, right click on her
     picture. Choose Image Properties from the pop-up menu
     that appears. 
- 3. In the Image Properties dialog box, go to the Appearance
     tab. You'll see a box called Keep Aspect Ratio. Put a
     check mark in that box so you can resize your image
     without distorting it. Click OK.


*2.  TAKING IT LINE BY LINE

January 7th, 1999

Let's say that you use your Web site to publish all of your 
poetry. And you know how poetry is -- those line breaks are 
really important for the flow of the work. But here's the 
problem: Every time you hit the Enter key to go to the next 
line, there's too much space between the new line and the old 
one. Solution? Easy, use the line break function.

- 1. Position your cursor at the end of the line you just
     typed. 
- 2. Choose Insert + Line Break. You'll see your cursor appear
     on the next line down -- without all that white space
     between lines. 
- 3. For a keyboard shortcut, hold down the Shift key while
     pressing the Enter key. This will also create a line break.

--This tip contributed by JoAnne Robb 


*3.  THE SYMBOLIC WEB

January 8th, 1999

You need to use that copyright symbol on your Web page. (You 
know, the C with a circle around it.) Or you've switched into 
French and you need accent marks over your letters. If you copy 
these special symbols from your word processor onto your Web 
page, they won't show up properly; it's like throwing a left 
curve to your browser. Instead, use the symbols in FrontPage to 
do the trick. 

- 1. Position your cursor where you want the symbol to appear
     on your page. 
- 2. Go to Insert + Symbol. Choose the symbol you'd like to add
     and click Insert.


*4.  BREAK FOR NON-BREAKING SPACES

January 11th, 1999

What's a non-breaking space? It's a special symbol that your 
Web browser can see -- but one that people see as just a blank 
space on your page. Why bother with that when you can just 
press the spacebar on your keyboard? Let's say you want the 
words "Donald Duck" to always appear next to each other on your 
page. But that's tough to control since everyone who visits 
your page could be using different font sizes, screen sizes, 
and so on. So -- since you're really a control freak -- you 
insert a non-breaking space between "Donald" and "Duck" and the 
browser will never break them apart. 

To insert a non-breaking space on your page: 

- 1. Position your cursor where you want the symbol to appear
     on your page. 
- 2. Choose Insert + Symbol. The first symbol in the upper-left
     corner of the Symbol dialog box is a blank space. 
- 3. Click Insert to insert that "symbol" and you've just added
     a non-breaking space. 
- 4. Click Close. 

--This tip contributed by JoAnne Robb


*5.  SHOOTING BULLETS 

January 12th, 1999 

You've got plans to create a list of items on your page and to 
make that list look really spiffy by preceding each item with a 
graphic bullet. You found the bullet you want in the FrontPage 
Clip Art gallery, but you're tired of importing it again and 
again. You can save yourself some time: 

- 1. Import the image and then click it. 
- 2. Copy the image (press Ctrl + C or choose Edit + Copy). 
- 3. Position your cursor where you want the next bullet to
     appear. 
- 4. Paste the image in (press Ctrl + V or choose Edit + Paste).


*6.  CLIP ART HAPPY

January 13th, 1999

Have you exhausted all the clip art options that come with 
FrontPage? Well, check out Microsoft's Clip Art Gallery Live at

http://www.microsoft.com/clipgallerylive 

In addition to clip art, you can find royalty-free photos and 
sound clips that you can use on your page. Of course, you do 
have to agree to Microsoft's License before you can download 
anything from the page. 


*7.  REDECORATING YOUR PAGES

January 14th, 1999

Don't like the location of something on your page? Want to move 
a picture to the right, for example, or push a table up just a 
touch? To move something easily:

- 1. Select the object--table, image, clip art, and so on--that
     you want to move. 
- 2. Holding down your cursor, point to where you want the
     object to go. 
- 3. Release the mouse button to "drop" the object into place.

It's just that simple. 


*8.  MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DON'T DO

January 15th, 1999

As you move around the Web, you'll find great sites that'll 
inspire you. And you may want to borrow ideas (and source 
code). But keep in mind that the Web has its losers, too. What 
if you can't tell the difference between jewels and junk? Point 
your browser to

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com

where you can check out some of the things you shouldn't do on 
your own Web page. Here, you'll find all sorts of goodies, from 
the Daily Sucker to tips on how you can prevent your site from 
making the list. 


*9.  NETSCAPE IS SHUT OUT 

January 19th, 1999 

You want to preview your Web page, and you've read all about 
that handy Preview tab at the bottom of the page. You know, 
this is the tab you can click to automatically display your 
page in the browser. But here's the catch: FrontPage gives you 
the Preview tab option only if you have Internet Explorer on 
your system; you don't get it if you use Netscape Navigator. If 
you don't have Explorer loaded on your system, you need to 
install it if you want to be able to use the Preview tab. 


*10.   NETSCAPE MUSCLES IN 

January 20th, 1999 

In our last tip, we told you that the Preview tab works only 
with Internet Explorer, not with Netscape Navigator. So that 
tip didn't apply to you because you don't use Navigator, right? 
Wrong. Even if Explorer is your favorite browser, you should 
still preview your work with Netscape Navigator. After all, the 
browser wars aren't over yet. About half the people use IE, and 
the other half use Navigator. 

To view your page in Navigator (or any browser other than IE, 
for that matter): 

- 1. Choose File + Preview in Browser. 
- 2. In the Preview in Browser dialog box, highlight Netscape
     Navigator from the list of browsers that are available on
     your computer. 
- 3. If you want to get an idea of how your page will look to
     visitors who only have low-res monitors, choose the lowest
     resolution (that's 600 x 480) from the Window size list.
     Otherwise, just skip to Step 4. 
- 4. Click Preview. 
