Chapter 8

Composing and Editing Page Content

• Building a Page
• Creating a Normal Web
• Working with Headings
• Entering Headings on a Page
• Using Paragraph Styles
• Using Normal Paragraphs
• Formatted Paragraphs
• Address Paragraphs
• Changing Paragraph Styles
• Reformatting Paragraphs
• Setting Paragraph Properties.
• Adding Extended Attributes to Paragraphs
• Formatting Your Text
• Using Fonts in the FrontPage Editor
• Setting Font Options
• Using Character Styles
• Removing Formatting
• Using Symbols and Comments
• Inserting Special Characters
• Inserting Comments
• Using Horizontal Lines
• Inserting a Horizontal Line
• Formatting a Horizontal Line
• Using Line Breaks
• Inserting Line Breaks
  • Editing Content
• Undoing Mistakes
  • Using the Clipboard as a Helper
  • Cutting or Deleting Text
• Finding and Replacing Text
• Spell-Checking a Page
• Using the Thesaurus
• Workshop Wrap-Up
  • Next Steps
  • Q&A

Now that you are thinking about what you want to put on your site, you probably want to start building your own pages. You should have a fairly good idea of the types of pages you want to put in your web. Roll up your sleeves, because it is time to start building those pages. This chapter starts with the basics: working with headings, paragraphs, and text styles.

Building a Page

This chapter shows you how to add basic content to your pages, using headings, paragraph styles, and fonts. After the basic content is on your pages, you can develop navigation bar pages, such as those discussed in Chapter 7 "Getting from Here to There," to navigate to other pages in your web. Then, use the Include bot to place the navigation bar on the main pages in your web. You can create a text version of the navigation bar first. This way, you can make sure that you like how the links flow before you make the graphics. You can even put pages on the web at this point. At least they will do something while you develop the graphics.

After you create your page content and add the navigation bar to your pages, you can develop and add images to your pages. Chapter 10, "Sprucing Up Your Pages," shows ways that you can add images to your pages and includes some tips on how to create them.

Creating a Normal Web

As you read along, you should reproduce the examples in this chapter and the chapters that follow. Use the File | New FrontPage command in the FrontPage Explorer to create a normal web. When you create a normal web, it contains a single blank page. You already know the procedure: Simply specify a Normal web in the FrontPage Editor's New Web dialog box. After you create the web, open the page in the FrontPage Editor to complete the examples.

Now, take a look at the basic building blocks that you use in your pages-headings and paragraphs.

Working with Headings

You have a blank page in front of you, and you are wondering where to start. You can begin your page by entering headings first. Starting this way gives you a feel for the content that you want to include on a page. It is also easier to create bookmarks when there is not much text between headings-you have less to scroll through.

Entering Headings on a Page

You can add headings to your page in a number of different ways. One method is to apply the heading formatting to each heading as you enter it on the page. The following example shows how to do this.

Here is one way you can create the headings shown in Figure 8.1:

Figure 8.1 : Organize your thoughts by placing headings on your page first.

1. With the insertion point at the upper-left corner of the page, choose Heading 1 from the Change Style drop-down menu in the Format toolbar.
2. Enter How to Build a Better Stuffed Potato.
3. Press Enter. By default, the next line is formatted as a normal paragraph. Choose Heading 2 from the Change Style drop-down menu, and enter Picking Your Potato.
4. Press Enter and choose Heading 2 again. Enter Making the Gravy.
5. Press Enter and choose Heading 3. Enter From Scratch.
6. Press Enter and choose Heading 3. Enter From a Packaged Mix.
7. Press Enter and choose Heading 3. Enter From a Can (Hey, It's Quick and Easy).
8. Press Enter and choose Heading 2. Enter Adding Spices.
9. Press Enter and choose Heading 2. Enter What to Top Your Potatoes With.

Another way to create the headings on the page is to enter all items as normal text and then use the Change Style drop-down menu in the Format toolbar to reformat the headings appropriately. You can also reformat headings from the Paragraph Properties dialog box, which is discussed in "Setting Paragraph Properties," later in this chapter.

Using Paragraph Styles

After you enter the headings, enter the content beneath each heading. Look at the section and decide what best conveys the information that you want to include. Sometimes, plain text is all that is necessary. Other times, a list or a table might be more effective in getting the message across. As you enter the content, you can create links to other pages in your web. You can create new pages as you create the links and add them to your To Do list so you can work on them later.

You can use three different types of paragraph styles to add the content to your pages-normal, formatted, and address. A paragraph is a line or a group of contiguous lines that use the same format and are separated in the FrontPage Editor with white space. Once you hit the Enter key at the end of a line, you start a new paragraph. The paragraph is separated by what appears to be an extra space.

You use some of the same methods discussed earlier to add text content to a page. For example, you can use the Change Style drop-down menu in the Format toolbar or the Format | Paragraph command to choose your paragraph style. When you format a paragraph, all the text contained in the paragraph changes to that format. You cannot mix paragraph styles in a paragraph. You can, however, mix character styles in a paragraph, which is discussed later in this chapter.sing Normal Paragraphs

Using Normal Paragraphs

Normal paragraphs are the meat-and-potatoes paragraphs of your web page. You use them for most of your content.re several ways that you can insert a normal paragraph on a page:

• Position the insertion point at the end of a heading or another normal paragraph and press Enter. The new line is automatically formatted as a normal paragraph.
• Position the cursor at the end of a bulleted or numbered list and press Enter twice or use Ctrl+Enter. The new line is formatted as a normal paragraph.
• Position the cursor at the end of a definition list and press Enter three times or use Ctrl+Enter. The new line is formatted as a normal paragraph.

To enter a normal paragraph on your page, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point at the end of the first heading, which reads How to Build A Better Stuffed Potato, and press Enter. The new line is formatted as a normal paragraph.
2. Enter the following text. Your page will look as shown in Figure 8.2.
   Figure 8.2 : A normal paragraph is added to the page.

   
   Stuffed potatoes. Boy, I really like them a lot. And I've figured out some great ways to make them, too. If you follow the tips I've included on this page, you'll want to have stuffed potatoes for dinner every night. Sound boring? Not really, because you can top potatoes with just about anything you can think of.

Formatted Paragraphs

Use formatted paragraphs when you need to provide content in a fixed-width format. FrontPage 97 enables you to place tabs within formatted paragraphs, which makes creating formatted text like the one shown in Figure 8.3 very easy. Formatted para-graphs are typically used for text-based tables, ASCII art, and code. Figure 8.3 shows three examples of formatted paragraphs. Line breaks split each paragraph into several lines.

Figure 8.3 : Use formatted paragraphs when you need to use fixed-width text with layout.

Enter the text shown in Figure 8.3 on your page, using the following steps:

1. Position the insertion point at the end of the heading that reads From a Can (Hey, It's Quick and Easy).
2. Press Enter. The insertion point moves to the beginning of the next line.
3. Choose Formatted from the Change Style drop-down menu on the Format toolbar.
4. Enter the following text:
   Preparing (press Tab key) Go in to the store, and walk down the
5. Press Shift+Enter, or choose Insert | Break and choose Normal Line Break from the Break Properties dialog box. The insertion point moves to the next line.
6. Enter the following text:
   the recipe: (press Tab key) gravy isle.
7. Press Shift+Enter to insert another line break at the end of the second line.
8. Enter the remaining text shown in Figure 8.3, adding tabs and line breaks to complete the layout. Line breaks are shown in the figure as arrows at the end of the lines. Where a paragraph follows a line that does not end with a line break, it was created by pressing the Enter key.

Address Paragraphs

Address paragraphs format text in italics. The traditional use for an address paragraph is to place author information at the beginning or the end of a page. Most commonly, this information is placed at the end of a page, as shown in Figure 8.4.

Figure 8.4 : Use address paragraphs to place author information or other italicized content on a page.

To insert an address paragraph on a page, perform the following steps:

1. Position the cursor on the bottom line in the page, beneath the heading that reads What To Top Your Potatoes With.
2. Choose Address from the Change Style drop-down menu on the Format toolbar.
3. Enter the following text:
   "How to Build a Better Stuffed Potato" copyright 1997 (enter your name)
4. Press Shift+Enter, or choose Insert | Break and select Normal Line Break from the Break Properties dialog box.
5. Enter the following text:
   For questions or comments regarding this page, contact me by E-mail.

Changing Paragraph Styles

Once you have text or headings on your page, it's very easy to reformat it to another heading or paragraph style. You can reformat a paragraph or heading in a couple of ways.

Reformatting Paragraphs

You can change between normal, address, or formatted paragraphs, paragraphs to headings, or you can change heading styles very easily. To change the formatting of a paragraph or heading, you need only follow these simple steps:

1. Click inside any part of the paragraph or heading that you want to change.
2. Choose the new style of heading or paragraph from the Change Style drop-down menu in the Format toolbar.

Setting Paragraph Properties.

You can use the Format | Paragraph command to format a paragraph or heading. When you use this command, the Paragraph Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 8.5, appears.

Figure 8.5 : The Paragraph Properties dialog box provides one way to format the paragraphs on a page.

To format a paragraph or heading from the Paragraph Properties dialog box, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point anywhere within the paragraph you want to change.
2. Choose Format | Paragraph. The Paragraph Properties dialog box appears.
3. To select the style of paragraph or heading, use the Paragraph Format list. The choices are Address, Formatted, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Heading 5, Heading 6, and Normal.
4. To apply an Extended Attribute to the paragraph, click the Extended button. The Extended Attributes dialog box appears, from which you can Add, Modify, or Remove an Extended Attribute. Choose OK to return to the Paragraph Properties dialog box.
5. To specify the alignment of the paragraph or heading, click the Paragraph Alignment drop-down menu. The choices are (default), which does not override the paragraph alignment; Left, which aligns the paragraph or heading with the left margin of the page or table cell; Center, which centers the paragraph or heading to the center of the page or table cell; and Right, which aligns the paragraph or heading with the right side of the page or table cell.
6. Click OK to return to the FrontPage Editor. Your selections are applied to the paragraph or heading.

Adding Extended Attributes to Paragraphs

Extended attributes are used to apply HTML tag attributes that are not supported directly by the FrontPage Editor. These attributes are added to the HTML code that FrontPage generates for the paragraph. You can add extended attributes to paragraphs by clicking the Extended button in the Paragraph Properties dialog box. You use three dialog boxes to add an extended attribute, all of which are shown in Figure 8.6.

Figure 8.6 : Adding an extended attribute to a paragraph.

To add extended attributes to a paragraph, do the following:

1. Select the paragraph to which you want to add the attribute.
2. Choose Format | Paragraph, or right-click and choose Paragraph Properties from the pop-up menu. The Paragraph Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click Extended. The Extended Attributes dialog box appears.
4. To add an extended attribute, click Add. The Name/Value Pair dialog box appears.
5. In the Name field, enter the name of the attribute.
6. Enter the value of the attribute (if applicable) in the Value field.
7. Click OK to exit the Name/Value Pair, Extended Attributes, and Paragraph Properties dialog boxes.

Formatting Your Text

Although FrontPage allows you to format the text in your pages into any font style you have on your system, there's something you should know. When you work with FrontPage, it's all too easy to forget that you aren't working with a word processor or page layout program. You're working with an advanced HTML editor, and a Web page is a slightly different animal. HTML code is basically data that specifies how a page should be displayed, and it's designed so that it's not specific to one computer platform.

When you choose a font in FrontPage, you're choosing a font that resides on your computer. The name of the font appears in the HTML code, but the actual font does not. In order for the user to see the same font you design in your pages, the user must have a browser that supports the use of different font faces. The font face must also reside on the user's system. If the user does not have the font face, the default fonts (usually Times Roman for proportional font and Courier for fixed-width font) are used on the user's end instead.

How do you know which fonts are safe to use? As a general rule, it's safe to use the fonts in the following list. Examples of the fonts are shown in Figure 8.7.

Figure 8.7 : Windows and Internet Explorer 3.0 fonts.

Windows (Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT) furnishes the following fonts: Arial (normal, bold, italic, and bold italic), Courier New (normal, bold, italic, and bold italic), and Times New Roman (normal, bold, italic, and bold italic).

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 furnishes additional fonts that can be viewed in your web pages and are readily available to those who use this browser. They are Arial Black, Comic Sans MS (normal and bold), Impact, and Verdana (normal, bold, italic, and bold italic).

You can download all the fonts mentioned previously from Microsoft's site in Windows and Mac format in the section True Type Fonts for the web. Although Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer come furnished with the previously mentioned fonts, the Web versions come with additional characters. Coming soon are Trebuchet (normal, bold, and italic) and Georgia (normal, bold, italic, and bold italic). If you use these fonts, mention that your pages look better if the user downloads them. Provide a link to the following pages:

You can find the Windows versions of the fonts at
http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm

You can find the Mac versions of the fonts at
http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/mac.htm

After you download the TrueType fonts for the Web, you need to install them on your system. In order to install the new versions of the fonts, you have to delete the old versions first. You add and delete fonts to your system from the Windows 95 Control Panel. From your Windows desktop, click My Computer. Then, choose Control Panel and click the Fonts folder. The Fonts dialog box, shown in Figure 8.8, appears. To delete fonts, highlight the fonts you want to delete and choose File | Delete. To add new fonts, choose File | Install New Font and locate the directory that contains the fonts you want to install.
Figure 8.8 : You can install new fonts from the Fonts dialog box, accessed from the Windows 95 Control Panel.

Using Fonts in the FrontPage Editor

In the FrontPage Editor, the Font dialog box is divided into two tabs. The Font tab allows you to choose a font face, size, and color. As you select your font options, a preview of the result is shown in the lower-right section of the dialog box.

Use the Format | Font command to apply formatting to the text on a page. You can apply formatting to a single character, a word, a group of words, a sentence, a paragraph, or even the entire page. You can also set five traditional HTML character style tags from the Font dialog box, as shown in Table 8.1.

To format the fonts on your page, follow these steps:

1. Select the text you want to format. You can select a contiguous area (multiple lines) by using the Shift key and clicking at the start and the end of the area you want to format.
2. Choose Format | Font. The Font dialog box appears. It opens to the Font tab, shown in Figure 8.9, by default.
   Figure 8.9 : Choose the font you want to use in your pages with the Font tab in the Font dialog box.

3. Select a font from the Font section. All fonts on your system are shown in the list, but you'd be best to stick with those mentioned in "Formatting Your Text," earlier in this chapter.
4. From the Font Style section, choose Regular, Italic, Bold, or Bold Italic (not all fonts have all four options).
5. Select a font size from the Size list. The available sizes are Normal, 1 (8 point), 2 (10 point), 3 (12 point), 4 (14 point), 5 (18 point), 6 (24 point), and 7 (36 point). The default size is 3 (12 point).
6. Select any special effects that you want to apply, such as Underline, Strikethrough, or Typewriter text.
7. Select the Color of the text from the drop-down menu. Choose Default to use the text color you specify in the Page Properties dialog box (Background tab). To specify a different text color, choose one of 16 predefined colors or select Custom to create a custom text color.
8. Click OK to exit the Font dialog box.

Setting Font Options

You can designate a default proportional and fixed-width font to use in the FrontPage Editor. If you would rather use Arial instead of Times Roman, for example, you can configure FrontPage to do so. You can also specify what character set you want to use for your pages. For example, if you need a character set that supports special characters for French or Spanish, you can configure FrontPage to do that as well.

To set font options, follow these steps:

1. Choose Tools | Font Options. The Font Options dialog box, shown in Figure 8.10, appears.
   Figure 8.10 : You can choose another default proportional and fixed-width font using the Font Options dia- log box.

2. By default, the character set for US/Western European is used. If you need a multilingual character set, choose Multilingual (UTF-8) from the Character set list.
3. Select your default proportional font from the Proportional font drop-down menu. The default is Times New Roman.
4. Select your default fixed-width font from the Fixed-width font drop-down menu. The default is Courier New.
5. To specify the MIME encoding type you want to use, choose from the MIME encoding list. The default is ISO-8859-1.
6. Choose OK to exit the Font Options dialog box.

Using Character Styles

If you don't want to take a chance on different font faces, you can also use several different types of character styles that are built in to HTML code. These character styles are basically nothing more than variations on one proportional font (usually Times New Roman) and one fixed font (usually Courier New) and are shown in Table 8.2. You can format any text on your page to use a different color, alignment, or font size.

To apply character styles to your text, follow these steps:

1. Select the text you want to format. You can select a contiguous area (multiple lines) by using the Shift key and clicking at the start and the end of the area you want to format.
2. Choose Format | Font. The Font dialog box appears.
3. Select the Special Styles tab, shown in Figure 8.11.
   Figure 8.11 : Choose special styles from the Special Styles tab in the Font dia- log box.

4. Choose the HTML tag that you want to apply to the selected text. Examples are shown in Figure 8.12.
   Figure 8.12 : Examples of the special styles that you can use, as rendered in the FrontPage Editor.

5. Set the Vertical Position of the text. Normal does not apply superscript or subscript text. To render superscript text, select Superscript and enter a value in the By field. To render Subscript, select Subscript and enter a negative value in the By field.
6. Click OK to exit the Font dialog box. Your selections are applied to the text.

In Figure 8.13, the three aligned paragraphs are selected for formatting. The font size is increased from the default font size-3 (12 point)-to 5 (18 point) by clicking the Increase Text Size button on the toolbar. The Italic button is used to put the text in italics. The Font Color button is used to change the text to blue.

Figure 8.13 : Normal text can be reformatted in interesting ways when you combine different formats.

The words "They're great", shown in Figure 8.13, demonstrate how you can apply character formatting to a portion of a word. The font size is increased a few letters at a time. As you can see, you can use character formatting to achieve interesting effects without relying on graphics.

To add special characters and text formatting to your page, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point after the first normal paragraph and press Enter. A new paragraph starts.
2. Enter the first line of text: Eat them just plain!!!
3. Use the Italic button on the Format toolbar to format the text in italics. Increase the size of the text by pressing the Increase Text Size button once.
4. Press Enter. The insertion point moves to the next line. Center the line with the Center button on the Format toolbar.
5. Enter the following text, inserting a line break (using Shift+Enter or Insert | Break, choose Normal Line Break) at the end of the first line:
   Pile on the butter or
   sour cream!!!
6. Press Enter. The insertion point moves to the next line. Align the text to the right of the page by using the Align Right button on the Format toolbar.
7. Enter the following text, inserting a line break (Shift+Enter) at the end of the first and second lines:
   Top them with meat and gravy,
   fresh-cooked veggies and cheese,
   or fresh herbs and spices.
8. Press Enter. The insertion point moves to the next line. Use the Center button on the Format toolbar to center the text.
9. Enter the following text: They're grrreeeeaaaatttt!.
10. Highlight a portion of the word grrreeeeaaaatttt, and use the Increase Text Size button to increase the size of the letters. Highlight other sections and increase the size by one level more than the previous section.
11. Position the cursor to the left of They're grrreeeeaaaatttt!. Click to select it.
12. Click the Text Color button on the Format toolbar. Choose red (the first color in the second row) and click OK.
13. Choose Format | Font. The Font dialog box appears. Click the Special Styles tab.
14. Select Blink and choose OK. The text becomes surrounded by aqua dotted lines.
15. Choose File | Preview in Browser to preview the page in a browser that supports blinking text. You are prompted to save your page before the browser opens. Assign the page a title and a URL, and choose OK. The page appears in your browser.

Removing Formatting

If you change the format of your text-such as if you increase or decrease the font size-you can return the text to the default format. Simply select the text and choose Format | Remove Formatting, or press Ctrl+Space. The text returns to the default format for its paragraph style (normal text for normal paragraphs, italic text for address paragraphs, and preformatted text for formatted paragraphs).

Using Symbols and Comments

FrontPage enables you to insert symbols in your pages without using ASCII codes. You can also add comments to your pages that appear in the FrontPage Editor but are not visible in other browsers.

Inserting Special Characters

Special characters are items such as trademark, registration, and copyright symbols; accent marks on text; special currency symbols; and common fractions. In the following example, you replace the word copyright with the copyright symbol.

To insert a special character, follow these steps:

1. Scroll to the bottom of the page where you added your copyright statement.
2. Position the insertion point at the beginning of the word copyright.
3. Choose Insert | Symbol. The Symbol dialog box, shown in Figure 8.14, appears.
   Figure 8.14 : Choose the symbol you want to use from the Symbol dialog box.

4. Select the copyright symbol from the fourth row or use the arrow keys to move through the available symbols.
5. Click Insert. You can also insert a character by double-clicking it. The symbol appears on your page.
6. Click Close to exit the Symbol dialog box.
7. Press the Delete key to remove the word copyright from your page.

Inserting Comments

You can apply comments to your pages to remind you of items that need to be changed or addressed. Comments display in the FrontPage Editor only. If you view the pages in another browser, they are undetectable. In other words, your pages appear as if the comments don't exist on the page.

To insert a comment on your page, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point at the end of the heading that reads From Scratch, and press Enter. The insertion point moves to the next line.
2. Choose Insert | Comment. The Comment dialog box, shown in Figure 8.15, appears.
   Figure 8.15 : You can add comments that are not visible in other browsers with the Comment dialog box.

3. Enter Add the recipe for home-style turkey gravy here.
4. Choose OK. The comment appears on your page in purple text (or the text color you select for your visited link color).
5. To edit the comment, position the cursor over the comment text, where it becomes a bot pointer. Double-click the comment text in your page. The Comment dialog box appears, and you can make your changes. To replace the comment with normal text, click to select the comment, and begin typing.

Using Horizontal Lines

You use horizontal lines (traditionally known as horizontal rules) to distinguish the beginning or end of sections on your pages. For example, if you have a page that describes the main sections on your site, you use horizontal lines at the end of each section's description.

Inserting a Horizontal Line

To insert a horizontal line into your page, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point on the line before which you want to insert the horizontal line. For this example, position the insertion point at the end of the last heading, which reads What To Top Your Potatoes With.
2. Choose Insert | Horizontal Line. A horizontal line appears on your page, using the default settings or the settings you last entered in the Horizontal Line Properties dialog box.

Formatting a Horizontal Line

You can change the appearance of a horizontal line by using the Horizontal Line Properties dialog box. When you edit the appearance of a horizontal line, FrontPage remembers the settings until you close the FrontPage Editor. Any time you insert another horizontal line afterward, the previous settings are used.

To change the appearance of a horizontal line, perform the following steps:

1. Click to select the line.
2. Choose Edit | Horizontal Line Properties, press Alt+Enter, or right-click and choose Horizontal Line Properties from the pop-up menu. The Horizontal Line Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 8.16, appears.
   Figure 8.16 : Specify settings for horizontal lines in the Horizontal Line Properties dialog box.

3. Choose any of the following options:
   • Percent of window. Choose this option to specify a line that spans across a percentage of the screen. Enter the percent value in the Width field. For the example, enter 90 in the Width field to create a line that spans 90 percent of the screen.
   • Pixels. Choose this option to specify a line that spans across a certain number of pixels. Enter the number of pixels in the Width field. If you choose this setting, be sure to keep in mind that some people use 640×480 resolution to browse the Web. Make sure your horizontal line isn't too wide.
   • Height. Specify the height of the horizontal line in pixels. For the example, enter 4.
   • Alignment. Choose an alignment for the horizontal line. Available choices are Left, which aligns the line with the left edge of your page; Center, which centers it; and Right, which aligns it with the right side of your page. For the example, leave your line set at the default of Center.
   • Solid line (no shading). Choose this checkbox if you want to create a horizontal line that is the same color as your text.
4. Choose a color for your horizontal line from the Color drop-down menu. Choose Red for the horizontal line you placed on your page.
5. If you want to add extended attributes to the horizontal line, click the Extended button. The procedures to do this are similar to those in "Adding Extended Attributes to Paragraphs," discussed earlier in this chapter.
6. Choose OK to return to the FrontPage Editor. The settings you choose are applied to the horizontal line and continue to be in effect until you change the settings or exit the FrontPage Editor.

Using Line Breaks

When you press the Enter key to start a new line on a page, it starts a new paragraph and inserts white space after the preceding paragraph. You can use line breaks to begin a new line without adding white space, as you have already learned in the examples for this chapter. You can also use line breaks to enhance the layout of images.

Inserting Line Breaks

The most common type of line break is the normal line break, which is the default selection in the Break Properties dialog box. You insert a normal line break quickly by pressing Shift+Enter at the point where you want the line break to appear. You have already inserted normal line breaks in the tasks in this chapter. Three other types of line breaks are most commonly used in conjunction with image layout.

To insert a line break, follow these steps:

1. Position the insertion point where you want the line break to appear.
2. Choose Insert | Break. The Break Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 8.17, appears.
   Figure 8.17 : Choose the type of line break you want to apply from the Break Properties dialog box.

3. Choose one of the following types of line breaks from the dialog box:
   • Normal Line Break. This forces a line break without clearing images in the left or right margin. This is the same as pressing Shift+Enter.
   • Clear Left Margin. The next line of text moves to the next clear line after an image that appears in the left margin.
   • Clear Right Margin. The next line of text moves to the next clear line after an image that appears in the right margin.
   • Clear Both Margins. If an image is in either or both margins, the next line of text moves until both margins are clear.
4. Click the Extended button if you want to add extended attributes to the line break. The procedures are similar to those discussed in "Adding Extended Attributes to Paragraphs," earlier in this chapter.
5. Click OK. The line break appears on your page.

Editing Content

What if you want to rearrange your content and place some of it on a different page? What if you placed section 3 before section 4 instead of after it? Mistakes sometimes happen, but it is not tough to fix them.

Undoing Mistakes

FrontPage has a multiple-level Undo function. This means that you can undo several steps. When you choose the Undo command from the Edit menu, it lists the command or action that it will undo when you use the command.

To undo an action, choose Edit | Undo (Ctrl+Z) or click the Undo button in the Standard toolbar for each step that you want to undo. Choose Edit | Redo (Ctrl+Y) or click the Redo button in the Standard toolbar for each undo that you want to place back on your page.

Using the Clipboard as a Helper

If your hot list or other page you create is so long that you have to scroll to read all of it, you might want to split it into several pages. To do this, you can cut the text from one page, place it in the clipboard, and paste it into another page.

Likewise, consider all those Back to Top links that you must create on a page after the bookmarked sections. You actually need to create them only once. Make the first link, copy it to the clipboard, and paste the text and its link into all the other sections. The same applies for graphics used as bullets or dividers on your pages. Copy the first one into the clipboard and paste it somewhere else.

To copy and paste text and images to and from the clipboard, follow these steps:

1. Select the text or image you want to copy.
2. Choose Edit | Copy (Ctrl+C), or click the Copy button on the toolbar.
3. Place the insertion point where you want to paste the text or image. You can place the insertion point anywhere on the current page or on another page that is open in the FrontPage Editor.
4. Choose Edit | Paste (Ctrl+V), or click the Paste button on the toolbar.

Cutting or Deleting Text

You have two ways to delete text. One method places the text into the clipboard for pasting into another location. The other method deletes the text from the page without placing it into the clipboard.

To delete text from a page and place it into the clipboard, use the Edit | Cut command or click the Cut button. To delete text from a page without placing it into the clipboard, choose Edit | Clear or press the Delete key.

You can also delete the character before the insertion point by pressing the Backspace key for each character you want to delete. To delete text after the insertion point, press the Delete key for each character you want to delete.

Finding and Replacing Text

Suppose that you are writing a page about flowers, and you forget what you wrote about petunias earlier. You need to find exactly what you said about it. To find text, do the following:

1. Choose Edit | Find (Ctrl+F). The Find dialog box, shown in Figure 8.18, appears.
   Figure 8.18 : Use the Find dialog box to find a word or phrase in your page.

2. In the Find what field, enter the word or phrase that you want to find.
3. From the Direction section of the dialog box, choose whether you want to search Up or Down from the current insertion point.
4. Choose "Match whole word only" to limit the text to words that match only the whole word you specify. Choose Match case to limit the text to words that match the capitalization of the word you specify.
5. To find the next match, click Find Next.
6. Click Cancel to exit the Find dialog box.

You realize that what you said about petunias actually applies to daffodils. Instead of retyping everything, you can use the Replace command. To replace text, do the following:

1. Choose Edit | Replace (Ctrl+H). The Replace dialog box, shown in Figure 8.19, appears.
   Figure 8.19 : Use the Replace dialog box to find and replace a word or phrase on your page with another word or phrase.

2. In the "Find what" field, specify the text that you want to replace.
3. In the "Replace with" field, specify the text you want to use to replace the text you are searching for.
4. Click Replace to replace the most recently found text with the replacement text. Click Find Next to find the next occurrence. This enables you to choose which instances of the text you want to change. Click Replace All to replace all instances of the text.
5. Click Cancel to exit the Replace dialog box.

Spell-Checking a Page

It is always a good idea to spell-check your pages before they go out to the public. FrontPage has a built-in spell-checker at your disposal. The spell-checker starts at the beginning of the page and checks the spelling of each word. When a spelling error is found, it is displayed in the Not in Dictionary field in the Spelling dialog box. If the spelling resembles a word in the standard dictionary, replacement words are suggested. To use the spell-checker, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Tools | Spelling (f7), or click the Check Spelling button.
2. To correct a spelling error, click one of the proposed corrections in the Suggestions field or edit the Change To field. Click Change to change a single instance of the spelling error. Click Change All to change all instances of the spelling error. The error or errors are corrected, and the next spelling error is displayed.
3. The spell-checker might indicate that a word is misspelled when actually it is spelled correctly. This might be because the word it found does not exist in the dictionary. If you do not want to place the word in your custom dictionary, you can tell the spell-checker to ignore it. Click Ignore to ignore a single instance of the word. Click Ignore All to ignore all instances of the word. You might want to place words that are used on other pages in your custom dictionary. Simply click the Add to Custom Dictionary button.
4. Choose Cancel to exit the Spelling dialog box.

Using the Thesaurus

The thesaurus allows you to search for other words that have the same meaning as words on your page. You can use the thesaurus to find a word that means the same as a word you select or that means the opposite.

To use the thesaurus, follow these steps:

1. Highlight the word that you want to find an alternative for.
2. Choose Tools | Thesaurus or press Shift+f7. The Thesaurus dialog box appears.
3. Select a replacement word from the dialog box.
4. Choose OK or press Enter to exit the dialog box.

Workshop Wrap-Up

Once you have an idea of the information you want to include on your web, entering content into your pages is very simple. Starting with basic headings helps you organize your thoughts. You can use character styles and formatting to add your content. Using different character styles, you can add emphasis to areas on your Web page. After the content is complete, you can use the FrontPage spell-checker to verify that your content is spelled correctly.

Your text can be more than simple text. You can use color, change the alignment, increase or decrease the font size, select different formats, and even insert special characters.

Next Steps

As you'll quickly learn, Web pages can be far more than text and headings. You'll learn some additional techniques in the following chapters:

• To use lists to organize your page content, see Chapter 9 "Organizing Information with Lists."
• Chapter 10, "Sprucing Up Your Pages," discusses creating style sheets and adding images to your pages.
• Chapter 11, "Your Tables Are Ready," tells you how to organize text and images in tables.

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