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SUMMARY

This article describes how to insert and edit shared View related content

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Remove Shared Borders in
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With Microsoft FrontPage, you can use shared
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or more common border elements to all pages or
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in the current Web. Shared Border

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Insert a Shared Border

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To insert a shared border, follow these steps: Search related topics

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1. In FrontPage, open your Web. To do this,

click Open Web on the File menu. In the

Open Web dialog box, click the Web that

you want to open, and then click Open.

2. Open the page where you want to add a

shared border. To do this, right-click the Related Support Centers

page that you want, and then click Open.

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3. On the Format menu, click Shared
Page Tools
Borders. By default, support for shared
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borders is turned off in FrontPage 2003. To
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turn on support for shared borders, follow

these steps:

a. On the Tools menu, click Page

Options.

b. On the Authoring tab, click to

select the Shared Borders check

box.

c. Click OK.

4. In the Shared Borders dialog box, follow

these steps:

a. In the Apply to section, click All

pages if you want to add the

shared border to all the pages in

your Web, or click Current page if

you only want to add the shared

border to your open page.

b. Select the type of border that you

want to add to the page. For

example, to add a top border, click

to select the Top check box. You

can click to select more than one

check box to add more shared

borders.

c. Click OK to close the Shared

Borders dialog box.

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Edit a Shared Border

To make changes to a shared border, you can

open a page in the Web that uses the shared

border or you can open the file that contains the

shared border that you want to change.

Note In FrontPage, when you open a page that

contains shared borders the Web page appears to

use a table format. If you view the HTML code by

clicking the HTML tab, you only see the HTML for

the central page. You do not see any of the HTML

code for the shared borders.

Method 1: Make Changes to a Shared Border

Contained on a Web Page

To make changes to a shared border, follow these

steps:

1. Start FrontPage and open your Web. To do

this, click Open Web on the File menu. In

the Open Web dialog box, click the Web

that you want to open, and then click

Open.

2. Open the page where you want to change

a shared border. To do this, right-click the

page that you want, and then click Open.

3. On your Web page, click in the shared

border and make the changes that you

want. You can also double-click the

comment in the shared border to open a

Comment dialog box to make your

changes.

Note If you have not made changes to the

shared border previously, FrontPage

created a Comment component that shows

the following text:

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Comment: This border appears

in all pages in your Web.

Replace this comment with

your own content.

Select the Comment text, and then type or

insert what you want to appear in the

shared border.

4. On the File menu, click Save to save the

changes you made to your Web page and

the shared border.

5. On the File menu, click Close to close

your Web page.

Method 2: Make Changes to the Shared Border File

Shared borders are stored in four files (Top.htm,

Bottom.htm, Left.htm, and Right.htm) in the

_borders folder of your Web. To make changes

directly in the shared border file, follow these

steps:

1. In FrontPage, open your Web. To do this,

click Open Web on the File menu. In the

Open Web dialog box, click the Web that

you want to open, and then click Open.

2. Expand the _borders folder. To do this,

click the plus-sign (+) that is to the left of

the _borders folder.

3. Right-click the shared border file (Top.htm,

Bottom.htm, Left.htm, and Right.htm) that

you want change, and then click Open.

4. Make the changes to the shared border.

Note If you have not made changes to the

shared border after inserting it, FrontPage

placed a Comment component in the

shared border file. The Comment

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component shows the following text:

Comment: This border appears

in all pages in your Web.

Replace this comment with

your own content.

To do so, click the Comment text, and

then type or insert what you want to

appear in the shared border.

5. On the File menu, click Save to save the

changes that you made to the shared

border file.

6. On the File menu, click Close to close the

shared border file.

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Remove a Shared Border

To remove a shared border, follow these steps:

1. In FrontPage, open your Web. To do this,

click Open Web on the File menu. In the

Open Web dialog box, click the Web that

you want to open, and then click Open.

2. Open the page where you want to remove

a shared border. To do this, right-click the

page that you want, and then click Open.

3. On the Format menu, click Shared

Borders.

4. In the Shared Borders dialog box, follow

these steps:

a. In the Apply to section, do one of

the following:

■ Click All pages if you

want to remove the shared

border from all the pages

in your Web.

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■ Click Current page if you

only want to remove the

shared border on your

open page.

b. Click to clear the check box for the

type of border that you want to

remove from the page. For

example, to remove a top border,

click to clear the Top check box.

c. Click OK to close the Shared

Borders dialog box.

Note To reset the shared borders

of the current page, click to select

the Reset borders for current

page to web default check box,

and then click OK.

Note You can also use the dynamic Web templates

in FrontPage 2003 as a powerful and customizable

solution to replace shared borders in cases where

you want common elements applied to a group of

pages.

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REFERENCES

For more information about shared borders, click

Microsoft FrontPage Help on the Help menu,

type set shared borders for a page in the Office

Assistant or in the Answer Wizard, and then click

Search.

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APPLIES TO

● Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

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