Problem with F2000 "Normal" View

[David Lipetz]

Folks,

The people in my marketing dept. use DreamWeaver to create single-page HTML
documents which we send to our customers as HTML e-mails.

Since I run the marketing dept, I like to use FrontPage to make modest edits
due to it's simplicity and power.

However, FP2000 has been having trouble displaying some of the DreamWeaver
documents. Here are the details.

In FP2000, the "Normal" view displays bulleted text incorrectly. All the
text is wrapped ontop of itself resulting in a few lines of unreadable text.
Selecting the cell properties and selecting "No Wrap" fixes that problem,
but changes the width of the cell, which is not acceptable. Looking at the
HTML code, my developers used both style sheets and the LI command to create
the bulleted list.

Here's the rub - in the "Preview" view of FP2000, the document displays
correctly, as it does in a browser as well.

I think that FP2000 is not handling something correctly in the "Normal"
view.

I really would like to stick with FP and not have to switch to DreamWeaver
to make the simple edits that I need to make.

Any ideas on what to check? Advice?

Thanks.
David

 

[FUD_wad]

Folks,

The people in my marketing dept. use DreamWeaver to create single-page HTML
documents which we send to our customers as HTML e-mails.

Since I run the marketing dept, I like to use FrontPage to make modest edits
due to it's simplicity and power.

However, FP2000 has been having trouble displaying some of the DreamWeaver
documents. Here are the details.

In FP2000, the "Normal" view displays bulleted text incorrectly. All the
text is wrapped ontop of itself resulting in a few lines of unreadable text.
Selecting the cell properties and selecting "No Wrap" fixes that problem,
but changes the width of the cell, which is not acceptable. Looking at the
HTML code, my developers used both style sheets and the LI command to create
the bulleted list.

Here's the rub - in the "Preview" view of FP2000, the document displays
correctly, as it does in a browser as well.

I think that FP2000 is not handling something correctly in the "Normal"
view.

I really would like to stick with FP and not have to switch to DreamWeaver
to make the simple edits that I need to make.

Any ideas on what to check? Advice?

Thanks.
David

If your edits are simple, use HTML (via notepad) to make them.

If your edits are not simple, either a) Get DreamWeaver too or b) Make the
people stop using absolute positioning for simple stuff like bulleted lists,
make them use tables instead. (FP will deal with tables much better than
absolute positioning.)

FP2002 deals with the stuff they are doing better, you might get better
results if you upgraded.

You could always just micro-manage and make them do the changes.... print em
from a browser and mark it up in intelligble scribbles like a good manager
does!