FYI
The reason that dialog had to stay that size was to support the "text" in all the multilingual versions of FP
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| > Don't tell me MS will release 2003 without fixing this? This was reported
| > from the beta 2 at least twice that I saw here. I thought roughly 1/2 of the
| > monitors now in use were using 800 by 600 resolution.
| > | > > Unfortunately, no, you can't resize the Table Properties dialog box. It's
| > > 623 pixels tall, which is certainly a nuisance if your monitor resolution
| > > is 800x600 or less.
|
| The "shipping" release of FrontPage 2003 has been available for
| download by MSDN subscribers for about two weeks now, and the Table
| Properties dialog box is 623 pixels tall. I suppose that the software
| that shows up in stores could be different, but that's not likely.
|
| Microsoft certainly could have rearranged the elements on this dialog
| box to make it make the 570 pixels tall, and I personally wish they
| had. But even if half the Web visitors in the world have 800x600
| display systems, I suspect there aren't very many Web designers who
| work at less than 1024x768.
|
| The standard FrontPage window arrangement includes several toolbars at
| the top, a row of tabs and a status bar at the bottom, the Folder list
| at the left, and a task pane at the right. If you display all this on
| an 800x600 video system, you're going to have a postage stamp sized
| area for editing. And switching among FrontPage, a picture editor, and
| a couple of browser windows will be a nightmare.
|
| So really, any Web designer who runs his or her video system at
| 800x600 probably ought to be considering an upgrade for many reasons,
| and not just because of the Table Properties dialog box.
|
| As to cost, I just ran a quick check and found dozens of brand-new 17"
| monitors, with display capabilities up to 1280x1024, for sale at less
| than $125.
|
| Jim Buyens
| Microsoft FrontPage MVP
| (e-mail address removed)
|
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| || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
| || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
| || Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
| || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
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