Rounded Corners

[Guest]

Several replies in the archives suggest that rounded border corners should be created using a combination of lines and quarter-circle images. The replies include links to helpful resources

However, FP2003 clearly states that you can create rounded borders using the Layout Tables and Cells task pane.
Layout Tables and Cells > Cell Corners and Shadows > Corners. The Corners section has several options in the UI to create rounded borders

Why can't I activate this section? The section is always inactive ("greyed out") regardless of what table, cell, etc. I select.

Thanks for any help.
Susan K.

 

[Jim Buyens]

Which part of this procedure doesn't work?

1. Open a new blank page.
2. Display the Layout Tables And Cells task pane.
3. Click Insert Layout Cell.
4. When the Insert Layout Cell dialog box appears,
accept the defaults and click OK.
5. Click the Cell Formatting link at the top of the
Layout Tables And Cells task pane.
6. Under Corners, look for the Apply section, then
click the corners you want.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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-----Original Message-----
Several replies in the archives suggest that rounded

border corners should be created using a combination of
lines and quarter-circle images. The replies include links
to helpful resources.

However, FP2003 clearly states that you can create

rounded borders using the Layout Tables and Cells task
pane.

Layout Tables and Cells > Cell Corners and Shadows >

Corners. The Corners section has several options in the UI
to create rounded borders.

Why can't I activate this section? The section is always

inactive ("greyed out") regardless of what table, cell,
etc. I select.

 

[Guest]

Ah, I see - I was simply trying to change the borders of a table cell I had already created. I'm starting to get that simply changing existing borders to rounded corners (like I can do in Visio) isn't possible. Is this correct

Thanks!
Susan K.

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Ah, I see - I was simply trying to change the borders of
a table cell I had already created. I'm starting to get
that simply changing existing borders to rounded corners
(like I can do in Visio) isn't possible. Is this correct?

Yes, that's basically true.

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)
|/=========------------
*========----------