FrontPage Extras
Front Page Advance Features

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Using Help

If you need help while you work, you can use the following resources:

Ask a Question box

  • To quickly access Help, use the Ask a Question box on the menu bar. You can type questions in this box to quickly find the answers you need.

The Office Assistant

Help topics

  • The Office Assistant automatically provides Help topics and tips on tasks you perform as you work — before you even ask a question. For example, when you write a letter in Microsoft Word, the Assistant can automatically display topics for helping you create and format a letter.
  • You can customize the Assistant, and decide if you want it to automatically display tips, messages, and alerts, make sounds, move when it's in the way, and guess a Help topic that it thinks you may need.
  • You can also type a question and the Assistant will display a list of possible matching topics.

Office Assistant tips

  • The Assistant also displays tips on how to use the features in the Microsoft Office programs more effectively. The light bulb next to the Assistant displays the tip when it's clicked.

Note In some Microsoft Office XP programs, the Assistant tips are turned off by default.

Giving feedback and getting help on the Web

  • If the correct topic doesn't appear in the Office Assistant balloon, you have the option to click None of the above, look for more help on the Web at the bottom of the list of topics. This displays suggestions on how to phrase a question to the Assistant or how to narrow your search by using keywords. If you still can't find the information you want, you can send feedback to improve future versions of Help and be automatically connected to the Microsoft Office Web site to search for help there.

You can access Help in the Help window in several ways:

  • View the Table of Contents.
  • Type a question in the Answer Wizard about your Microsoft Office program.
  • Search for specific words or phrases, or choose from a list of keywords in the Index.
  • If you still can't find the Help you want, you can look for more help on the Web.

Help on the World Wide Web

  • You can connect to the Microsoft Office Web site and other Microsoft Web sites directly from any Microsoft Office program by using the Office on the Web command on the Help menu. For example, you can access technical resources and download free product enhancements — all without leaving the Office program you're working in.
  • Also, if you find a Help topic that begins with "Web:", the Office Web article will appear in your Help window, and you will have the option to open it in a larger browser window.

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Create A Hover Button

  • In Page view, in the Normal pane, position the insertion point where you want to create a hover button.
  • On the Insert menu, click Web Component.
  • In the left pane, click Dynamic Effects.
  • In the right pane, double-click Hover Button.
  • In the Button text box, type the text label for the hover button.
  • If you want to use a custom picture that already contains a text label, clear the default value.
  • In the Link to box, type the URL of the page or file you want to display when the hover button is clicked. Or, click Browse to locate the page or file.
Note   To preview the hover button as it will appear when a site visitor browses to the page on the World Wide Web, click the Preview button, or click Preview in Browser on the File menu.

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About Hit Counters

A hit counter tallies and displays the number of times a page has been visited. For example, add a hit counter to your home page so that you and site visitors can see how many times your web site has been visited.

Microsoft FrontPage provides several styles of counters, but you can supply your own number graphics by creating a custom picture in GIF format. The picture must include the numbers zero (0) to nine (9), evenly spaced.

After you add a hit counter to a page, you can reset the counter to any number. For example, you test a web site after you publish it to ensure that it is working properly, and then you find that the hit counter has been incremented by your own visits. You can reset the counter to zero to start it over or to just count site visitors.

Note   You must publish your web site to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft installed. Ask your web administrator or Internet Service Provider whether this software is installed on your web server. Once the web site is published, click Preview in Browser to test the hit counter.

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Add a Drop-Down Box (sample) Back

Drop-Down Form

In Page view, do one or both of the following:

  • Add a drop-down box
  • Click in the form where you want to place the drop-down box.
  • If you are inserting a form field but have not already created a form, Microsoft FrontPage will automatically create a form area and insert the field inside that form. The form area will appear as a dashed line when you are editing the page.
  • You can insert a new line by pressing ENTER.
  • On the Insert menu, point to Form, and then click Drop-down box.
  • Type the label for the drop-down box directly on the form.
  • Set the properties of a drop-down box
  • Double-click the drop-down box.
  • In the Name box, type a name to identify the drop-down box.
  • This internal name, which is not shown on the form, identifies the drop-down box in the form results. It will be visible to the site visitor on the default confirmation page, which is displayed when you use a form handler rather than a custom script.
  • Click Add to add the choices you want to display in the drop-down box.
  • In the Choice box, type an option you want to display in the drop-down box.
  • If you want the value for this choice to be different from the text displayed in the drop-down box itself, select Specify value, and then type the value in the box.
  • For example, a choice in the menu could be John, but the value returned in the form results could be me.
  • Click Selected under Initial State if you want the choice to be selected by default when a site visitor first opens the form.
  • Click OK.
  • Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each choice you want to add.
  • To change the order in which choices are displayed, click a choice in the list, and then click the Move Up or Move Down button.
  • In the Height box, type how many lines of text you want to show in the drop-down box.
  • For example, if the drop-down box has three options, you can set the height to 3 so that all choices are visible.
  • Click Yes under Allow multiple selections if you want to allow multiple selections in the drop-down box. If you click No, the site visitor will be able to make one choice only.
  • Click the Style button to access other options for formatting your form using cascading style sheets as an inline style.
Note   To test the functionality of your form, you must first publish your web site to a web server running either the FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft. Ask your web administrator or Internet Service Provider whether this software is installed on your web server. Once the web site is published, click Preview in Browser to test the form.

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Set A Background Sound

  • In Page view, right-click the page, and then click Page Properties on the shortcut menu.
  • On the General tab, under Background sound, in the Location box, type the sound file you want to play, or click Browse to locate the file.
Do one of the following:

  • To play the sound continuously, select the Forever check box.
  • To play the sound a fixed number of times, clear the Forever check box, and enter the number of times you want the sound to play in the Loop box.
  • When a site visitor opens a page, the sound is played.
  • Note   This feature is not supported by all Web browsers.

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Create A Marquee

  • In Page view, click where you want to create the marquee, or select the text that you want to display in the marquee.
  • On the Insert menu, click Web Component.
  • In the left pane, click Dynamic Effects.
  • In the right pane, double-click Marquee.
  • In the Text box, type the line of text you want the marquee to display. If you selected text on the page in step 1, the Text box contains the selected text.
  • To preview the marquee as it will appear when a site visitor browses to the page on the World Wide Web, click the Preview button ,or click Preview in Browser on the File menu.
  • You can format a marquee to adjust its direction and speed, behavior, alignment, size, number of repetitions, and background color.
  • You can format the font in a marquee to adjust font size, style, color, and character spacing.

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