GENERALLY SPEAKING

 ~ AnyFrontPage Bytes News:

We are very excited to announce our most
recent upgrade to our AFP Bytes web site!
Using the power of FrontPage, Access, DRW
(Database Results Wizard) and the DIW
(Database Interface Wizard) we have added a
new database driven Contributing Authors
section to our site.

Now, you can easily browse the many talented
authors who have contributed articles to our
ezine this last year, read their bio's, and click a
link to read all of the articles that author has
contributed to our ezine!

The ability to easily search for articles by an
author is the brainchild of Frances Stewart, our
resident genius! Why didn't we do this sooner?

Check it our for yourself and enjoy reviewing all
of the great articles we have been privileged to
bring to you in our issues:
http://anyfrontpage.com/bytes/authors.asp
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PLEASE NOTE:
The Latest issue of the Microsoft FrontPage
FanZine Archives 2002 E-Book is now available
for download at: (September Issue)
http://anyfrontpage.com/bytes/ebooks/ 

Your password can be found in your welcome
message.


 ~ FrontPage News & Happenings:

Time is ticking on the Microsoft FrontPage
2002 REBATE! If you get a copy of FrontPage
2002 Standard or upgrade between July 7, 2002
and September 14, 2002 you may qualify for a
$20 mail-in rebate. Could be a great time to take
the plunge and upgrade, if you haven't already.
But hurry! This offer ends on Oct. 30th See:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/rebate.htm
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CONGRATULATIONS to Simon Hadad!!
http://at-frontpage.com/SimonBots

Microsoft has added all of his great FrontPage
components to their add-in center including:
SimonBots Custom Scrollbars:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/msd.htm
and SimonBots Pop-Up Windows is on the
download center at:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/mdl.htm
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MICROSOFT SECURITY BULLETIN MS02-053

Buffer Overrun in SmartHTML Interpreter Could
Allow Code Execution (Q324096) Originally
posted: September 25, 2002

Summary
Who should read this bulletin: Web site
administrators using Microsoft® FrontPage
Server Extensions.

Impact of vulnerability: Buffer overrun or denial of
service.

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

Recommendation: Web site administrators
should apply the patch or ensure that the
SmartHTML Interpreter is not available on the
server.

Affected Software:

Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions 2000
Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions 2002
Microsoft Windows 2000 (shipped FPSE 2000)
Microsoft Windows XP (shipped FPSE 2000)

http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/msb.htm
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USING THE OFFICE PROGRAMS WITH
FRONTPAGE.
By Linda Johnson

Though Microsoft claims you can create files
with the other Office programs and save them as
web pages which you can easily import into
FrontPage, I have found this to cause more
problems than it's worth, in most cases, and
NOT user friendly AT ALL. So, when I want to
make something in another Office program and
add it to my web, I prefer to copy and paste
between the programs. And, there are indeed
many times that I need to do this because
FrontPage falls short for me. Here are some
examples:

Though FrontPage 2002 now includes WordArt,
when I used FrontPage 2000, I often created my
WordArt in PowerPoint and then just copied it
and pasted it into FrontPage. I prefer using
PowerPoint, rather than Word or one of the other
Office programs, because PowerPoint handles
objects better than the others. The steps to do
this are simple:

1. In PowerPoint, open up a new blank
presentation and select a blank slide.
2. Go to the Insert Menu and choose
Picture>WordArt, or simply click on the WordArt
icon on your Drawing Toolbar.
3. When the box comes up, choose the basic
style of WordArt that you want, then in the next
box, type the text you want.
4. When the WordArt appears on your screen,
use the WordArt toolbar that appears to change
the color, shape, orientation, depth, or whatever
you want.
5. Once you are finished formatting it in
PowerPoint, just right click on the WordArt and
choose "Copy", then place your cursor on your
FrontPage page where you want the WordArt to
appear and right click and select "Paste".
6. Now you have text that is really a graphic,
so don't forget to right click on it and select
Picture Properties and add some alt text to it.

NOTE: If you do this with
PowerPoint/FrontPage 2002, I recommend you
copy the WordArt from PowerPoint, then paste
it into a graphics program, then save it as a gif
and insert it the way you normally insert
pictures into your web. Otherwise, FrontPage
will add a lot of unnecessary code to your html
that you will have to clean up. See a sample at:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/pct.htm

Another thing lots of people want to add to their
site is a calendar. Now, you can create your
own calendars in FrontPage by making a table
and putting the info in there. Or, you can use
Microsoft Publisher to do it much more easily
and here's how:

1. Open Publisher and select Calendar from
the list of choices for new publications on the
left. Then choose the Calendar of your choice
on the right.
2. Format the parts of the Calendar to suit
your fancy then go to the Edit menu and choose
Select All.
3. With all of the parts of the Calendar
selected, click on the grouping button you see
at the bottom of the Calendar to group it, so all
the parts become one object.
4. Once it's grouped, right click on it and
choose Save As Picture and browse to save it
into your Web's Images folder or wherever you
store all the other pictures for your website, then
add it to your page the same way you would add
any other picture. See a sample here:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/ptt.htm

Let's try one more. Let's say you have a large
table full of data on one of your web's pages and
you've been adding entries to the table, but now
you want to sort (alphabetize) them, based on
what's in the first column. The fastest way to do
this is to use Excel and here's the steps:

1. Click inside your table in your FrontPage
page and go to the Table menu and choose
"Select>Table" then copy or cut it.
2. Inside Excel, in a new blank workbook,
click into cell A1 and paste. Your data will now
be in Excel.
3. Click in any cell within your data, then go to
the Data menu and choose "Sort". Choose the
column you want to sort by and click OK.
4. Now your data has been alphabetized by
that column's contents. Highlight all the cells
and copy them and paste them back into your
FrontPage page. See a sample here:
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/pcc.htm

NOTE: One of the quirks here is that you may
lose some of the formatting of your original
FrontPage table and you will need to re-apply
that. But, I still find this process a lot faster
than manually changing the order of all the
items in the table, especially if it's a very large
table.

These are just a few things you can do with the
other Office programs. I would recommend you
experiment with a new web in FrontPage until
you understand how this works and don't go
messing up your existing web. Once you get
the hang of it, it's not so hard. Though, you will
need to examine your html code to see how the
other Office programs may change it. Lots of
the code that is added when you paste from
these programs can be removed without any
consequences, so you need to play around with
it until you see what works for you.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Linda Johnson is a MOUS certified college
instructor of all the Microsoft Office programs.
She also teaches online classes and has
written e-books on these programs. For more
information and lots of good free tutorials, visit
her FrontPage crafted website:
http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com

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MICROSOFT OFFICE COMMUNITY
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistance/HA011616281033.aspx 

You are probably familiar with the fairly new MS
FrontPage Community at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistance/HA011269991033.aspx
but have you had a chance to browse the Office
community too?

FrontPage is part of the Office family, of course
and many of us use at least several of the Office
family products. The Office community offers
some great tips and tricks, articles and how-to
articles on all of the Office family products,
including FrontPage!

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A QUICK UPDATE

We are installing and testing the NEW FORUM
SOFTWARE, which is going to run on SQL as
opposed to MS Access. This will be a great
improvement in security, as well as
performance, as it has greater concurrent user
capacity. The software is installed, and now
we're in the process of merging our former snitz
forum data into the new forum.

We are hopeful to have the new forum up and
running by September 26th (Today!)

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 ~ FrontPage Links:
 
Your first page tutorial
http://www.unr.edu/edtech/fp/fptut_home.html
FrontPage Tutorial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FrontPage Tutorials
http://www.kumc.edu/webdev/fphelp/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FrontPage 98 tutorial
http://www.learningspace.org/tech/FrontPage/
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Viewlet FrontPage 2000 tutorials
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/wmb.htm
 

 ~ FrontPage Resources:

Simon Does it AGAIN!
If you thought that the DropShadow Effects and
the Pop-Up boxes were cool, take a look at
SimonBots Custom HTML Markup, uploaded
this week. Finally, a design-time tool for
server-side scripts. Insert HTML directly into
Normal view of FP2k2, and specify its
design-time appearance. Keep those scripts &
styles from being accidentally deleted.
http://www.at-frontpage.com/SimonBots/
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 ~ General Resources

The Plugin Site
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/pin.htm
Your guide to Image and Video effects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Digitalminer
http://www.digital-miner.com/hkconintro.html
Hotkeycontrol XP is a software to customize
hotkeys (or single keys) for specific purposes .It
will make any keyboard to work as a Multimedia
or Internet keyboard.
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 ~ General Links

Lockergnome Tips - Latest Issue FREEWARE
http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/vgw.htm 
Hints, Tips & Tricks Windows Help File.
Version : 0206 - September 1996 to June 2002
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