default font/style

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Mike

Hi, I can't figure out how to change the default font for authoring in FP.
It's Times and I want Verdana.

Thanks,
Mike
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi, I can't figure out how to change the default font for
authoring in FP.
It's Times and I want Verdana.
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Tools, Page Options, Default Font.

However, this affects only the font you see in FrontPage,
and doesn't affect the font that Web visitors see.

To change the default font that Web visitors see, choose
Styles from the Format menu, then configure a font for the
body tag. To accomodate all versions of Netscape, you'll
also need to assign this font to the td, th, li, and
possibly other tags that appear in your pages.

To make this change for an entire Web, create a CSS file
containing these styles, then link that file to each page
in your Web.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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Jim Buyens said:
To change the default font that Web visitors see, choose
Styles from the Format menu, then configure a font for the
body tag. To accomodate all versions of Netscape, you'll
also need to assign this font to the td, th, li, and
possibly other tags that appear in your pages.
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See MaKo's page for details on this particular bug:
http://www.mako4css.com/cssfont.htm

It explains all the tags that you want to explicitly declare.
 
There is a way to change the default document template that FP uses, but I
wouldn't suggest doing that.

Intstead, just create an external CSS file with the following:
body, p, td, li, (etc., all the items from MaKo's article) {
font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
}

Save this as a CSS file within your FP web.

(I like to do this bit with all files closed.)
- Click "Format | Style Sheet Links..."
- Make sure "All Files" is selected (it should be since you don't have any
files open)
- Click "Add..."
- Select your CSS file and click "OK"
- Click "OK" again

This style sheet will now be applied to all of the pages in your site. When
you add a new page, go through the process above only, instead of choose
"All" choose "Selected Pages" to have it apply to the page you're working
on.

One practice I use is to create a template file within my site. I usually
store it in the _private directory and when I add a new page, I just copy
it. Since it already has the CSS file linked in, I don't have to go through
the Format stuff above.

Good luck!
 
Mike said:
Thanks for the quick responses, but this does not appear to apply globally.
Each time I create a FP doc I would like the body style to be Verdana 10 pt
font. In Word you would change normal.dot. What's the equivalent in in FP?
Cheers, Mike
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Unfortunately, there's no such animal.

However, if you save your styles in a css file, you can apply this css
file to every page in your Web. To do this:

1. Choose Style Sheet Links from the Format menu.
2. Click All pages.
3. Click Add, then locate the css file you want.
4. Click OK twice.

This won't, however, apply the style sheet to any pages you create
later. For that, click the new, open page, then repeat the procedure,
specifying Selected Page(s) in step 2.

You may also want to open a new blank page, apply the style sheet,
choose Save As from the File menu, and then choose a Save As Type of
FrontPage Template. Any new pages you create from that template will
then reference the given style sheet.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| 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) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
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