How to remove HTML from Front Page

[Guest]

Things have been too good for me. I use FP2000 and have maintained my own
three websites with it for past five years. A couple of months ago a power
outage made it necessary for me to use other computers to update my sites and
I had to use MS Word to do it. When things got back to normal, I can no
longer get those pages away from MS Word and back to FP. I know the answer
is simple. But so am I.
Basically I just want to change one page on my sites away from MSWord, then
download them to my computer and go back to making changes the way I used to.

Anybody got time for advice for a dummy?

Thanks. BTW, should I upgrade to FP2003? Is something newer coming out?

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[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Get them away from Word? Not sure what you mean

....but if your web server has the most current copy of the website and has
FP extensions installed and working (not broken by ftp'ing) you'd just open
your website live then Publish back to your local hardrive..then fix the
messy html that Word creates then re-Publish back to the server.


| Things have been too good for me. I use FP2000 and have maintained my own
| three websites with it for past five years. A couple of months ago a
power
| outage made it necessary for me to use other computers to update my sites
and
| I had to use MS Word to do it. When things got back to normal, I can no
| longer get those pages away from MS Word and back to FP. I know the
answer
| is simple. But so am I.
| Basically I just want to change one page on my sites away from MSWord,
then
| download them to my computer and go back to making changes the way I used
to.
|
| Anybody got time for advice for a dummy?
|
| Thanks. BTW, should I upgrade to FP2003? Is something newer coming out?
|
| (e-mail address removed)

 

[Andrew Murray]

I'm not sure how you 'remove the HTML from Frontpage' or what you mean
exactly by that phrase.....

Frontpage *generates* HTML code: it's an HTML editor.

I think you're talking about the "file associations" or something - that
your html docs are associated with MS Word rather than Frontpage?

Remember, to open a page in Frontpage you need to have your 'web' open.
Then you open a page.

 

[Ronx]

Do as Rob said, but first, in FrontPage use Tools->Options.
On the Configure Editors tab clear the check box "Open web pages in
the Office application that created them"

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

I don't have FP 2000 installed so I'll reference the location for this
feature for FP 2003 and it should be somewhere similar in FP 2000. Under
Tools | Options | Configure Editors there should be a checkbox stating Open
Web Pages in the office application that created them. Uncheck this and any
Office document exported to HTML will stop opening in the app that created
it.

FrontPage 2003 adds numerous features and bug fixes over FP 2000 so it is a
worthwhile upgrade. There will be a new version of FP coming out, perhaps
later this year. No release date has been set to the best of my knowledge so
it could be this year, could be next year.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Guest]

Let me make sure I understand this (Told you I was slow :>)
I am now making changes to my sites on the server from my machine. The page
in question always opens in MSWord, I make changes, then it closes in MSWord.
All other pages work as normal.
I have been afraid to download website to my machine because of the MSWord
problem.
If I understand what you are saying, I can uncheck this box, download
website to my machine, the MSWord "hold" on the affected page will go away,
then I can go back to making changes on my machine and uploading normally.
Does that sound right?
That would solve everything. If you say I have that right, I'll do it.
Also thanks about the FP2003. If I can get this fixed I think I'll go ahead
and upgrade without waiting for new version. I make several changes a week.
BTW, if anyone wants to look one of the sites is www.andypark.org and the
only page in MSWord is the DATES page. As you can imagine, that's the one I
have to update all the time.
I really appreciate all this help.

 

[Mike]

Word has implated code into the page and there is nothing you can do to stop
Word from opening it up. Although Word can generate html pages, it puts all
kind of cluttered code to achieve it's output. It really messes a page up.

Word has forever change this page. If you understand html, then you can
manually remove it from the code, but you will probally cripple certain
areas of the page or a least change the layout and trying to correct this
would be tedious.

Since it is just one page - 2 things

Re-create page from scratch in Frontpage or restore this page from a backup
predated a couple of months ago prior to this issue occuring and then update
the content to current.

Hope this helps ...

 

[Guest]

Wow ! Thanks Mike. That makes so much sense I never would have figure it
out. I shall fix it immediately.
Now, if I may impose a little further. What is the best way to make an edit
on my site (created and maintained in FP) from another machine that does NOT
have FP on it? That's how I got into this trouble in the first place; I used
Word as an editor from a foreign machine then when I got home I couldn't undo
it.

Again, many thanks for your help.
Andy Park

 

[Ronx]

If your site has FrontPage extensions, *always* use FrontPage -
uploading an edited file with FTP can corrupt the extensions.
If there are no extensions, use Notepad to edit.

 

[Ronx]

Word has implated code into the page and there is nothing you can do

to stop Word from opening it up.

Tools->Options - Configure Editors tag
Clear the box "Open web pages in the Office application that created
them"
Click OK
All web pages will open in FrontPage.

 

[Mike]

Managing a website from 2 different computers is not really a good idea.

Do not misunderstand, it can be done. It is just not a good idea.

Lets say that you would have Frontpage on 2 different machines, as a matter
of fact, you have 2 identical machines.
You can perform updates from 2 different locations. In the process of
maintaining a good website, there are graphics involved, scripts involved
and such. But, after a while your 2 machines are no longer identical.

Having all you source files (graphics & scripts) in one location is the best
way to go. Make sure you backup all your source files that has been created.

Hope this helps ...