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Content Management: Tools - FrontPage Express Tips and Tricks

  • Change the default font by going to Tools > Font Options and choosing the font you prefer
  • Selecting the 'paragraph mark' in the toolbar shows an outline of tables. Very handy if your tables don't have borders. Same as View > Format Marks
  • Right click in the body of the page to bring up 'Page Properties'

Keyboard shortcuts:

CTRL+N
New page
CTRL+O
Open page
CTRL+S
Save current page
CTRL+P
Print current page
CTRL+Z
Undo previous action
CTRL+A
Select all
CTRL+C
Copy selected item or text
CTRL+V
Paste copied item at insertion point
CTRL+X
Cut selected item or text
CTRL+K
Open the 'create hyperlink" dialogue
CTRL+F
Open the 'find" dialogue
CTRL+H
Open the 'find and replace' dialogue
ALT+Enter
Open the 'font properties' dialogue

Things that FrontPage Express can't do:

  • Paste or Drag& Drop Content From Office files. While you can do this in FrontPage, you cannot do this in FrontPage Express. The text does come in, but with a lot of code that you'll have to edit out in HTML view. Best bet is to save your Office document as "text" and then paste it in. You'll have to format in FrontPage Express.
  • Appears to be no way of producing 'nested lists' without using HTML directly.
  • If you explicitly mark some text as 'align left' instead of default alignment (which is left), any list items will have a paragraph spacing. Work-around is to remove the explicit 'align left'.
  • You must select the Formatted style before copying material into the editor. If you try to apply the style after pasting in material, you loose multiple spaces.
  • FrontPage has a Preview in Browser feature but FrontPage Express does not.
  • FrontPage Express has no support for CSS (stylesheets), Dynamic HTML, or frames.