FP2003 tables and page properties...

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Hi
Having just upgraded to 2003, I can't do two things I use a lot:
1) copy properties (background, text and hyperlinks colours) from another page in the web. [used to be an easy click in previous versions] Under page properties, and formatting there is no such option anymore. In fact, the previously designed pages that I have where they take their colours from another page, are now greyed out and unchangeable!
2) choose cell colour for a table by having the curser inside said cell and then clicking on the paint bucket fill icon. Now this only puts a highlighted background to the words [strange, because the highlighter icon does this too!] So now I need to select the entire cel and then paint-bucket it - much more timeconsuming, and sometimes impossible without going Table - Select - Cell.
Help!
Please!
Laurey-ann
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi
Howdy.


Having just upgraded to 2003, I can't do two things I use
a lot:
1) copy properties (background, text and hyperlinks
colours) from another page in the web. [used to be an
easy click in previous versions] Under page properties,
and formatting there is no such option anymore. In fact,
the previously designed pages that I have where they take
their colours from another page, are now greyed out and
unchangeable!
Click to expand...

Exactly. This feature is vamoose. Use Linked Style Sheets,
Themes,or Dynamic Web Templates instead.
2) choose cell colour for a table by having the curser
inside said cell and then clicking on the paint bucket
fill icon. Now this only puts a highlighted background
to the words [strange, because the highlighter icon does
this too!] So now I need to select the entire cel and
then paint-bucket it - much more timeconsuming, and
sometimes impossible without going Table - Select - Cell.
Click to expand...

Curious. It works the same as always for me. If you select
cell contents, the background applies to those contents.
If you select the entire cell, the background applies to
the cell.

Selecting cells is easy, though, if you display the quick
tag selector. Just click the right-most <td> icon.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------
 
You can also put "select cell" icon on your toolbar.

Wally S

Jim Buyens said:
-----Original Message-----
Hi
Howdy.


Having just upgraded to 2003, I can't do two things I use
a lot:
1) copy properties (background, text and hyperlinks
colours) from another page in the web. [used to be an
easy click in previous versions] Under page properties,
and formatting there is no such option anymore. In fact,
the previously designed pages that I have where they take
their colours from another page, are now greyed out and
unchangeable!
Click to expand...

Exactly. This feature is vamoose. Use Linked Style Sheets,
Themes,or Dynamic Web Templates instead.
2) choose cell colour for a table by having the curser
inside said cell and then clicking on the paint bucket
fill icon. Now this only puts a highlighted background
to the words [strange, because the highlighter icon does
this too!] So now I need to select the entire cel and
then paint-bucket it - much more timeconsuming, and
sometimes impossible without going Table - Select - Cell.
Click to expand...

Curious. It works the same as always for me. If you select
cell contents, the background applies to those contents.
If you select the entire cell, the background applies to
the cell.

Selecting cells is easy, though, if you display the quick
tag selector. Just click the right-most <td> icon.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------
Click to expand...
 
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