font formatting in FrontPage 2002

[Guest]

Recently, a font formatting problem has cropped up on a few specific pages.

I don't use themes or style sheets. The way I've always formatted text is,
in the Normal pane, to highlight the text, select Font from the Format
drop-down menu, and choose a font (almost always Arial) and any special font
properties.

Lately, on these problem pages, when new text is added and a font and font
properties are selected, things look fine in the Normal pane. However, in a
web browser, the new text is a hodgepodge of fonts and font properties.
(Sometimes, existing text on the page is also adversely affected.)

Each of these pages consists of several data tables. The formatting problem
happens if a new table is created from scratch, or if text is added or edited
in an existing table. If a table from one of the affected pages is copied to
an unaffected page, that page develops a similar font problem.

Any thoughts on how to correct the problem (short of purging the affected
pages)?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Body formatting does not cascade into tables
- select your cells and apply your formatting again

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| Recently, a font formatting problem has cropped up on a few specific pages.
|
| I don't use themes or style sheets. The way I've always formatted text is,
| in the Normal pane, to highlight the text, select Font from the Format
| drop-down menu, and choose a font (almost always Arial) and any special font
| properties.
|
| Lately, on these problem pages, when new text is added and a font and font
| properties are selected, things look fine in the Normal pane. However, in a
| web browser, the new text is a hodgepodge of fonts and font properties.
| (Sometimes, existing text on the page is also adversely affected.)
|
| Each of these pages consists of several data tables. The formatting problem
| happens if a new table is created from scratch, or if text is added or edited
| in an existing table. If a table from one of the affected pages is copied to
| an unaffected page, that page develops a similar font problem.
|
| Any thoughts on how to correct the problem (short of purging the affected
| pages)?

 

[Guest]

Just to clarify: The method I use is to highlight the text/cells to be
formatted in the table, and then go through the formatting steps (select Font
from the menu, etc.). This has worked since the web site was created several
years ago, and continues to work on the dozens of other pages on the site.
It's just a few pages where this anomaly occurs.

 

[Tom Miller]

I don't use themes or style sheets.
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Lately, on these problem pages, when new text is added and a font and font
properties are selected, things look fine in the Normal pane. However, in
a
web browser, the new text is a hodgepodge of fonts and font properties.

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Because your depending on the Html code to do this formating you may have to
learn enough html to "see" where the problem is.

Or you can simply create a new page. Lay it out like the old page. Then
copy the old text into the same locations on the new page. Apply the
formatting. Whatever got garbaged should now be gone. Delete the previous
page, rename the new page to the old page and your off and running (I hope).

It maybe simpler to learn a little html and then patch it as the other
responder has suggested. While you can create tables for layout in FP,
moving the borders by dragging them can cause trouble.

You may find that re-creating the pages and using FP's builtin CSS support
to setup the fonts etc will turn out to be a lot easier to maintain. It
also may make using the tables for layout more robust. You want the .css
file to be linked to all the pages. eg if it is called: "websitestyle.css"
then FP can link it to all your site pages.

Tom

 

[Guest]

I've learned just enough HTML to be baffled about the way FP interacts with
it. My hope was to salvage the data tables without having to reconstruct
them, since they're very lengthy. (When I've copied affected tables to a
newly-created page, the formatting problem has carried over.)

I may just start from scratch and reconstruct the tables on new pages -- and
make use of CSS, as you suggest. That will probably provide a better
foundation going forward. And maybe at some point I can have someone examine
the HTML on the old pages, to ensure I don't accidentally recreate the
problem.

Thanks very much.