Shared Border problem. Won't work when selecting ALL PAGES

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Mr B

Why do shared borders sometimes not work when you choose All Pages? I haev a certain page that if I
go to the page, select shared border "Current Page" and turn on the bottom border, it works fine.
But if I change it to ALL PAGES and leave the bottom border on, then it disappears. They don't seem
to work right, only on some pages and not others. Many of my pages I made by saving one page
multiple times with a different name so would that affect it somehow? If so, what do I need to
check to make it work?

Thanks.
 
1. Make sure you are working in a open web.
2. When you create your original template page with shared borders, did you
have the shared border option set to, this page only, if so then all of the
pages you created from this page would be set up the same way, and you would
then have to open each individual page and change it shared border option to
use the web default.

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!) Well, how can I change settings and such if the web isn't open to let me work on it?

2)When I made the first page I wasn't using Shared Borders. I decided to turn them on later. It is
just working very strangely.

I have one page I know of (and others I haven't played with yet) that if I'm viewing that page and
turn on shared borders just for that page, it shows up just fine. Then if I turn on the borders but
choose ALL, then they go away which doesn't make sense since when I choose ALL that should work on
EVERY page in the web....

Is there something stored in the code somewhere or something I can edit to make FP apply the borders
or something that would be inhibiting them from working only when I choose ALL? I nkow I can go
through them one by one but that's tiem consuming and the whole point of choosing ALL PAGES is so
you don't have to go through and do them one by one.
 
This reply probably will not answer your problem, but may shed some light on
it.

The Ms Border meta tag can take one of 4 general forms:
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlrb, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlrb">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none, default">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">

where the content value means:
none - no shared borders on the page
there may be any combination of 1 or more of
t - top border
l - left border
r - right border
b - bottom border

default indicates that all new pages will inherit the content shown, and
existing pages with the default attribute will be affected by the All Pages
option in the shared borders dialogues.
Pages without the default attribute have manually added (or removed) shared
borders, and
will never be affected by the All Pages options in Shared Borders
dialogues.

If the default for a web is to not have any shared borders (every page set
up individually) then changing the setting for "all pages" will not affect
any existing pages - these have to be reset individually.
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Mr B said:
!) Well, how can I change settings and such if the web isn't open to let me work on it?

2)When I made the first page I wasn't using Shared Borders. I decided to turn them on later. It is
just working very strangely.

I have one page I know of (and others I haven't played with yet) that if I'm viewing that page and
turn on shared borders just for that page, it shows up just fine. Then if I turn on the borders but
choose ALL, then they go away which doesn't make sense since when I choose ALL that should work on
EVERY page in the web....

Is there something stored in the code somewhere or something I can edit to make FP apply the borders
or something that would be inhibiting them from working only when I choose ALL? I nkow I can go
through them one by one but that's tiem consuming and the whole point of choosing ALL PAGES is so
you don't have to go through and do them one by one.
Click to expand...
 
So if I want to manually edit all my current pages before I get any more so that they will ALL be
affected by the Shared Borders thing and all new pages will also have them (just the bottom) what
would I have to do?

I checked a couple pages and found:

<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b, default">


All on different pages....

Thanks.
 
You need to open each page and set shared border to use the web default.

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You could do several global find and replace (FP2000 and later).
From the FrontPage menu:
Edit - Replace

Find: <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
Replace : <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b,default">
Select "All Pages" and "find in source code".

Then repeat with Find : <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="">
and again with Find : <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b">

If you are using FP2000 you will be opening and editing each page
individually anyway.

After the Find/Replace operations, do Tools - Update Hyperlinks to bring the
edited pages up to date.
Finally, Format - Shared Borders. Make sure All Pages is selected, and
select the bottom border only. Then click OK. This will update any pages
that have no Microsoft Border meta tag at all.

Note that this method will miss any pages that have a different border meta
tag than those mentioned.
 
But when you are done adding them using Search & Replace or any other method other than in design view, always run a Tools
Recalculate Hyperlinks so the FP META tags reflect them too

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| You could do several global find and replace (FP2000 and later).
| From the FrontPage menu:
| Edit - Replace
|
| Find: <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
| Replace : <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b,default">
| Select "All Pages" and "find in source code".
|
| Then repeat with Find : <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="">
| and again with Find : <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b">
|
| If you are using FP2000 you will be opening and editing each page
| individually anyway.
|
| After the Find/Replace operations, do Tools - Update Hyperlinks to bring the
| edited pages up to date.
| Finally, Format - Shared Borders. Make sure All Pages is selected, and
| select the bottom border only. Then click OK. This will update any pages
| that have no Microsoft Border meta tag at all.
|
| Note that this method will miss any pages that have a different border meta
| tag than those mentioned.
|
| --
| Ron
|
| Reply only to group - all emails will be deleted unread.
|
|
| | > So if I want to manually edit all my current pages before I get any more
| so that they will ALL be
| > affected by the Shared Borders thing and all new pages will also have them
| (just the bottom) what
| > would I have to do?
| >
| > I checked a couple pages and found:
| >
| > <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
| > <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="">
| > <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b">
| > <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="b, default">
| >
| >
| > All on different pages....
| >
| > Thanks.
| >
| >
| >
| > >This reply probably will not answer your problem, but may shed some light
| on
| > >it.
| > >
| > >The Ms Border meta tag can take one of 4 general forms:
| > ><meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlrb, default">
| > ><meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlrb">
| > ><meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none, default">
| > ><meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
| > >
| > >where the content value means:
| > > none - no shared borders on the page
| > > there may be any combination of 1 or more of
| > > t - top border
| > > l - left border
| > > r - right border
| > > b - bottom border
| > >
| > > default indicates that all new pages will inherit the content shown, and
| > > existing pages with the default attribute will be affected by the All
| Pages
| > > option in the shared borders dialogues.
| > > Pages without the default attribute have manually added (or removed)
| shared
| > >borders, and
| > > will never be affected by the All Pages options in Shared Borders
| > >dialogues.
| > >
| > >If the default for a web is to not have any shared borders (every page
| set
| > >up individually) then changing the setting for "all pages" will not
| affect
| > >any existing pages - these have to be reset individually.
| >
|
|
 
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