Fonts and Table in Frontpage 2002

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Chuck Duchon

I am using FrontPage 2002 and I have a problem with getting the font to
display correctly.

I'm using a table to format a list of names. I want to use Times New Roman
as the font. It looks OK when I specify the font in FrontPage but when I
view it in the browser (IE 6.0) some of the cells display in Arial.

I can change the entire table to Arial, Courier and 2-3 others that I
tested, it just seems like it has a problem with Times New Roman.

I've looked at cell properties and table properties but I can seem to find
the correct setting.

Any ideas?
 
-----Original Message-----
I am using FrontPage 2002 and I have a problem with
getting the font to display correctly.

I'm using a table to format a list of names. I want to
use Times New Roman as the font. It looks OK when I
specify the font in FrontPage but when I view it in the
browser (IE 6.0) some of the cells display in Arial.

I can change the entire table to Arial, Courier and 2-3
others that I tested, it just seems like it has a problem
with Times New Roman.

I've looked at cell properties and table properties but I
can seem to find the correct setting.
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I'm not sure about the particular scenario you describe,
but FrontPage has a habit of assuming that Times New Roman
is the default font, and therefore requires no font
specification in the HTML.

To work around this, try setting up a CSS class (under
Format, Style) named .names, and then specify the class
name "names" for the table. Here are some sample results.

<style>
..names { font-family: Times New Roman, serif }
</style>

<table class=names>

specifying the second font "serif" assures that the
default serif font will appear if the visitor's browser
doesn't have Times New Roman installed.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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Jim,

Thanks. The suggestion to use the CSS Class didn't work (or I didn't do it
correctly) but specifying Times News Roman (Serif) as the table font did
work....

maybe it's a problem with my browser setting?

Chuck
 
Chuck Duchon said:
I am using FrontPage 2002 and I have a problem with getting the font to
display correctly.

I'm using a table to format a list of names. I want to use Times New Roman
as the font. It looks OK when I specify the font in FrontPage but when I
view it in the browser (IE 6.0) some of the cells display in Arial.

I can change the entire table to Arial, Courier and 2-3 others that I
tested, it just seems like it has a problem with Times New Roman.

I've looked at cell properties and table properties but I can seem to find
the correct setting.

Any ideas?
Click to expand...
You might have to scour your code in HTML view to see if any font tags reside in
the table(s) with "arial" as the font - get rid of them, then go back to normal
view, select all the text and reapply the Times New Roman font.

I have this problem many a time, when font tags go astray or left behind but I
just go to html view and delete them that way - which is a handy method so you
can tidy up the not-so-tidy code generation by frontpage.
 
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