FP 2000 crashes when updating CSS on XP

[JXStern]

I got it into my head to fool around with style sheets, so fired up
the old FrontPage 2000 I have on my XP workstation. I created the
sheet, saved it, updated one style, saved it. Now every change I make
produces an exception, and FrontPage exits.

I've googled up a couple of threads on this, so I'm not the only one,
but I didn't see any solution offered.

(Yes, the obvious solution is to upgrade to FP2003)

Can't find any report of this in MSKB.

If there was ever a fix or work-around discovered/published, would
appreciate someone replying here. Someone suggested cutting and
pasting the CSS into a notepad file, I guess that will work, but of
course I'd hope for something better!

Thanks.

J.

 

[Rob]

The solution offered to this known bug is to get Topstyle - a free utlitiy
from Bradsoft

http://www.bradsoft.com/download/index.asp

Easy to use and it works with XP!

Rob

 

[Wally S]

The Lite version is free, but if you really want to get into CSS, the Pro
version is well worth the price.

Wally S

 

[Peter Taurins]

No good fix.

Tools | Configure Editors | Set the defaults for css files to Notepad.

Alternatively grab Top Style Lite (http://www.bradsoft.com) which will do a
better job than notepad.

Apart from that, nothing.

Peter.