fonts 10pt vs 2 (10pt)

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I've read most of the posts about his but can't seem to figure out the
answer. Relatively new FP 2002 user.

I was typing text in a table in Front Page. I then copied text from Word
into other cells of the table. When viewed in the browser, at text size
"medium", eveything looked fine. When I switched to "large", the text I
typed in FP resized, the text I copied from Word stayed the same. I tried
every format setting I could find to get 10pt on the FP text instead of 2
(10pt). I can see the difference in the HTLM code but I am very
uncomfortable in the code. For this project I need the size to be uniform,
preferably not resized. The 10pt chioce does not appear in any font size
boxes except when I am in the Word font cells.

How do I get the 10pt choice everytime, in addtion to the 2 (10pt) choice,
other than creating everything in Word first. It seems to have something to
do with syles, but I don't understand that part of the program yet.
 
You cannot fix the font size for text in a web page. Users can ALWAYS
change it to suit their vision - it is simple in Firefox, Netscape and
Opera, but not difficult in IE.
The only way to fix the text size is to make an image of the text, and
use the image.
See
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/ems-percent.htm
which shows other sizing units, and the way text resizing affects them.

I suggest you use CSS to specify the font-size:

Place this in the <head> section of the page, immediately before the
</head> tag in code view:

<style type="text/css">
td {font-size:80%;}
</style>

For most users, this will give a font size of approximately 10pt, and
will allow all users to easily adjust the size to suit their vision
requirements.

Points are a print metric and as such should be avoided for screen media
such as web pages.
 
You got it backwards, Steve. DON'T use Word to create HTML. FrontPage is
designed to create HTML. Word is designed to create Word documents. When you
copy Word and, in essence, export it as HTML, it tries to retain it's Word
formatting with the equivalent in HTML.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Ministry of Software Development
http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

Never trust a dunderhead with a blunderbuss.
 
Thank you for the excellent responses, the image route seems like the way to
go for size critical. Is there a way to make the text box resize to
accomodate the larger font in HTML or should I abandon the text box as well.
 
What text box? Do you mean a form text box?


Steve Byrd said:
Thank you for the excellent responses, the image route seems like the way
to
go for size critical. Is there a way to make the text box resize to
accomodate the larger font in HTML or should I abandon the text box as
well.
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Unforunately, the flawed accessibilty defaults have not been corrected in
IE7.

Bob Lehmann
 
If you mean a text box produced from the Drawing toolbar, then delete
them and never use them. Those text boxes use VML graphics, which will
give you more problems - they render in other browsers as poor quality
images - sometimes as a blank image, if they render at all.
The text boxes also use absolute positioning based on the <body> tag
rather than the "closest" positioned container, which makes layout a
nightmare if you allow text to be resized (which you cannot prevent).
The text boxes do not resize, but the text in them does (in IE - not
other browsers, see above).

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