Word Redux

I (well, the course) assumes that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Word.

This is good because:

• Much of basic FrontPage stuff is similar to Word
  • File menu
  • Edit menu
  • View menu
  • Insert menu - well, most of it
  • Format menu - again, mostly
• Also, a lot of the "Toolbars" have symbols you will recognize
• We'll be hitting the Tools, Table and Frames menus later

What we are skipping (for now)

The main areas of FrontPage that we are saving for later:

• FrontPage "Webs"
  • These are used to create and manage multi-page web sites. It's pretty complicated... we'll hit this after covering all the basic things you can do to one or two web pages
• Tables for formatting
  • HTML defines a "table" tag that is used for more sophisticated formatting of web pages. Your page may look a little linear (like this one, eh) until we hit tables
• Frames
  • A fancy way to show multiple pages on the screen at once
• Higher-level HTML constructs
  • Most of these are in the Insert menu... forms, components, dynamic HTML, etc

File menu

All the basic stuff:

• File/New - create a new page
• File/Save - save the page
• File/Save As - save the page to a specific file
• File/Close - done working with the page
• File/Page Setup - printing controls
• File/Print - Print the page (though you usually want to do this from a browser)
• File/Exit - Done!

Ignore the open/close "webs" stuff in FrontPage for now...

Edit menu

Like falling off a log:

• Edit/Undo
• Edit/Redo
• Edit/Cut - or <control-x>
• Edit/Copy - or <control-c>
• Edit/Paster - or <control-v>
• Edit/Delete - remove what's selected
• Edit/Find - find text on the page
• Edit/Replace - find and replace text on the page

View menu

Of interest now:

• View/Toolbars - most are formatting shortcuts
• View/Reveal Tags - cool and educational (if not useful) feature that shows the HTML tags you are using in your page
• View/Refresh - if files outside of FrontPage (images, backgrounds, etc) change and you want to update your view

Most of the Views menu items are for "webs" usage only.

Insert menu

Go:

• Insert/Break - inserts a <br> line break tag
• Insert/Horizontal Line - inserts a <hr> horizontal ruler tag
• Insert/Picture - inserts an image from Clipart or a local file

Format menu

Go:

• Format/Font - cool and pretty much just like Word
• Format/Paragraph - rarely used in web pages
• Format/Bullets and Numbering - change list appearance

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