Why do my webpage dimensions change when I go to preview?

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The page narrows and crunches the words together when I go from design view
to preview.
Why is it doing that?
 
Several questions to help you, help us, help you:

1. How have you laid out your page? Did you just start
typing? Did you insert a table onto your page and type
into it? If so, is that table set to a fixed width or to
a percent (of browser window)? If you don't know what a
table is, see Front Page help.

2. When you say Preview do you mean using the Front
Preview or Preview in Browser option? You should use the
Preview in Browser mode.

3. When you say the page "crunches the words together" be
a bit more descriptive. Surely you don't mean that all of
the spaces between words are eliminated. That could be
called crunching but what do you mean by that word.

In general, the more information you can provide us with
your questions the better we will be able to help you.
Take the time to state your situation clearly and fully.
 
Rick
Thanks for the response. I will try to answer your questions to give you
more info.

I'm referring to 'Preview' in Frontpage, not 'Preview in Browser'. When I
preview it in browser, it is alright. When I switch from the Design view to
Preview to check just the one page I'm working on, that's when I am having
the problem.

The text has been typed into two seperate cells that are side by side. I
arrange the text the way I want it to look. But when I go to Preview, the
outside of the left edge of the page and the outside right side of the page
are set inward by about 1/2 an inch. This then compresses the text, not to
eliminate spaces, but causes the text to be re-arranged to fit into the
tighter space.
I have not made any adjustments to the margins. It just seemed strange to
me that in Design it would look one way, and then look different in Preview.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Pastor Jamie
 
Jamie: Preview is not a true browser representation, and should not be
considered an accurate representation of how your page will look. Preview
in Browser is the method you need to use, as it will show how your page is
rendered.


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| Rick
| Thanks for the response. I will try to answer your questions to give you
| more info.
|
| I'm referring to 'Preview' in Frontpage, not 'Preview in Browser'. When I
| preview it in browser, it is alright. When I switch from the Design view
to
| Preview to check just the one page I'm working on, that's when I am having
| the problem.
|
| The text has been typed into two seperate cells that are side by side. I
| arrange the text the way I want it to look. But when I go to Preview, the
| outside of the left edge of the page and the outside right side of the
page
| are set inward by about 1/2 an inch. This then compresses the text, not
to
| eliminate spaces, but causes the text to be re-arranged to fit into the
| tighter space.
| I have not made any adjustments to the margins. It just seemed strange to
| me that in Design it would look one way, and then look different in
Preview.
| Thanks for any suggestions.
|
| Pastor Jamie
|
| "Rick Budde" wrote:
|
| > Several questions to help you, help us, help you:
| >
| > 1. How have you laid out your page? Did you just start
| > typing? Did you insert a table onto your page and type
| > into it? If so, is that table set to a fixed width or to
| > a percent (of browser window)? If you don't know what a
| > table is, see Front Page help.
| >
| > 2. When you say Preview do you mean using the Front
| > Preview or Preview in Browser option? You should use the
| > Preview in Browser mode.
| >
| > 3. When you say the page "crunches the words together" be
| > a bit more descriptive. Surely you don't mean that all of
| > the spaces between words are eliminated. That could be
| > called crunching but what do you mean by that word.
| >
| > In general, the more information you can provide us with
| > your questions the better we will be able to help you.
| > Take the time to state your situation clearly and fully.
| >
| > >-----Original Message-----
| > >The page narrows and crunches the words together when I
| > go from design view
| > >to preview.
| > >Why is it doing that?
| > >.
| > >
| >
 
Rick,

I have had the same problem as Pastor Jamie. I just changed my table (which
I just plopped on the page and started typing into) to 100 percent, rather
than 740 pixels wide, and that has made the problem less pronounced, but
hasn't fixed it.

My problem is two-fold: first, my Preview window resembles neither my design
window nor my published page. It mostly deletes spaces between lines, e.g. a
double-space becomes a single-space, and my before- and after-line space
settings shrink considerably. As a result, text that fills a cell completely
in my design window fills the cell only halfway in the Preview window. And
double spaces between paragraphs disappear. That sort of thing. To deal with
this, in the short term, I've just been over-spacing text in my design
window, and have stopped using Preview.

Problem two: my published page (and Preview in Browser) has stopped
resembling my design window, with respect to line spacing. I have no idea
what to do about this. I cannot make the cells of my table too small for the
text inside, in order to undershoot and therefore have it come out right on
the published page.

I just spent two hours on the phone with a nice guy from Microsoft Customer
Support Bangladesh or Kerala or wherever, and he couldn't figure it out. But
I'll bet someone here can help me. I hope!

Thanks,

Michelle
 
PS - I have the same problem with columns. I have a three-column table set
into a large cell in a larger table. Those three columns fill up the cell
nicely in my editing window, but leave a blank column-like space to their
right side, as well as the space below do to the shrunken text, once
published. Is there some pixel/percent table and cell width setting thing
going on here that I'm not picking up on?

http://www.ppcpdx.org/new index.htm

Thanks again.

Michelle
 
Insert a 100% table into that right table cell where they are now, then move
your old cells into the new table and set the cell's width to 33% each.


| PS - I have the same problem with columns. I have a three-column table
set
| into a large cell in a larger table. Those three columns fill up the cell
| nicely in my editing window, but leave a blank column-like space to their
| right side, as well as the space below do to the shrunken text, once
| published. Is there some pixel/percent table and cell width setting thing
| going on here that I'm not picking up on?
|
| http://www.ppcpdx.org/new index.htm
|
| Thanks again.
|
| Michelle
|
| "Michelle P" wrote:
|
| > Rick,
| >
| > I have had the same problem as Pastor Jamie. I just changed my table
(which
| > I just plopped on the page and started typing into) to 100 percent,
rather
| > than 740 pixels wide, and that has made the problem less pronounced, but
| > hasn't fixed it.
| >
| > My problem is two-fold: first, my Preview window resembles neither my
design
| > window nor my published page. It mostly deletes spaces between lines,
e.g. a
| > double-space becomes a single-space, and my before- and after-line space
| > settings shrink considerably. As a result, text that fills a cell
completely
| > in my design window fills the cell only halfway in the Preview window.
And
| > double spaces between paragraphs disappear. That sort of thing. To deal
with
| > this, in the short term, I've just been over-spacing text in my design
| > window, and have stopped using Preview.
| >
| > Problem two: my published page (and Preview in Browser) has stopped
| > resembling my design window, with respect to line spacing. I have no
idea
| > what to do about this. I cannot make the cells of my table too small for
the
| > text inside, in order to undershoot and therefore have it come out right
on
| > the published page.
| >
| > I just spent two hours on the phone with a nice guy from Microsoft
Customer
| > Support Bangladesh or Kerala or wherever, and he couldn't figure it out.
But
| > I'll bet someone here can help me. I hope!
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Michelle
| >
| > "Rick Budde" wrote:
| >
| > > Several questions to help you, help us, help you:
| > >
| > > 1. How have you laid out your page? Did you just start
| > > typing? Did you insert a table onto your page and type
| > > into it? If so, is that table set to a fixed width or to
| > > a percent (of browser window)? If you don't know what a
| > > table is, see Front Page help.
| > >
| > > 2. When you say Preview do you mean using the Front
| > > Preview or Preview in Browser option? You should use the
| > > Preview in Browser mode.
| > >
| > > 3. When you say the page "crunches the words together" be
| > > a bit more descriptive. Surely you don't mean that all of
| > > the spaces between words are eliminated. That could be
| > > called crunching but what do you mean by that word.
| > >
| > > In general, the more information you can provide us with
| > > your questions the better we will be able to help you.
| > > Take the time to state your situation clearly and fully.
| > >
| > > >-----Original Message-----
| > > >The page narrows and crunches the words together when I
| > > go from design view
| > > >to preview.
| > > >Why is it doing that?
| > > >.
| > > >
| > >
 
In page properties, set the margins to 0

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Look for this line in Code View:

</center>
<td width="976" height="306" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#F8F5D6">

Try changing the 976 to 100%



| Rob,
|
| Wow, amazingly enough, doing as you suggested lessened my text shrinking
| problem. But it did not solve the empty-space-to-the-right-of-the-columns
| problem. Can you think of anything else that might take care of it?
|
| http://www.ppcpdx.org/new index.htm
|
| Michelle
|
| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
|
| > Insert a 100% table into that right table cell where they are now, then
move
| > your old cells into the new table and set the cell's width to 33% each.
| >
| >
| > | > | PS - I have the same problem with columns. I have a three-column
table
| > set
| > | into a large cell in a larger table. Those three columns fill up the
cell
| > | nicely in my editing window, but leave a blank column-like space to
their
| > | right side, as well as the space below do to the shrunken text, once
| > | published. Is there some pixel/percent table and cell width setting
thing
| > | going on here that I'm not picking up on?
| > |
| > | http://www.ppcpdx.org/new index.htm
| > |
| > | Thanks again.
| > |
| > | Michelle
| > |
| > | "Michelle P" wrote:
| > |
| > | > Rick,
| > | >
| > | > I have had the same problem as Pastor Jamie. I just changed my table
| > (which
| > | > I just plopped on the page and started typing into) to 100 percent,
| > rather
| > | > than 740 pixels wide, and that has made the problem less pronounced,
but
| > | > hasn't fixed it.
| > | >
| > | > My problem is two-fold: first, my Preview window resembles neither
my
| > design
| > | > window nor my published page. It mostly deletes spaces between
lines,
| > e.g. a
| > | > double-space becomes a single-space, and my before- and after-line
space
| > | > settings shrink considerably. As a result, text that fills a cell
| > completely
| > | > in my design window fills the cell only halfway in the Preview
window.
| > And
| > | > double spaces between paragraphs disappear. That sort of thing. To
deal
| > with
| > | > this, in the short term, I've just been over-spacing text in my
design
| > | > window, and have stopped using Preview.
| > | >
| > | > Problem two: my published page (and Preview in Browser) has stopped
| > | > resembling my design window, with respect to line spacing. I have
no
| > idea
| > | > what to do about this. I cannot make the cells of my table too small
for
| > the
| > | > text inside, in order to undershoot and therefore have it come out
right
| > on
| > | > the published page.
| > | >
| > | > I just spent two hours on the phone with a nice guy from Microsoft
| > Customer
| > | > Support Bangladesh or Kerala or wherever, and he couldn't figure it
out.
| > But
| > | > I'll bet someone here can help me. I hope!
| > | >
| > | > Thanks,
| > | >
| > | > Michelle
| > | >
| > | > "Rick Budde" wrote:
| > | >
| > | > > Several questions to help you, help us, help you:
| > | > >
| > | > > 1. How have you laid out your page? Did you just start
| > | > > typing? Did you insert a table onto your page and type
| > | > > into it? If so, is that table set to a fixed width or to
| > | > > a percent (of browser window)? If you don't know what a
| > | > > table is, see Front Page help.
| > | > >
| > | > > 2. When you say Preview do you mean using the Front
| > | > > Preview or Preview in Browser option? You should use the
| > | > > Preview in Browser mode.
| > | > >
| > | > > 3. When you say the page "crunches the words together" be
| > | > > a bit more descriptive. Surely you don't mean that all of
| > | > > the spaces between words are eliminated. That could be
| > | > > called crunching but what do you mean by that word.
| > | > >
| > | > > In general, the more information you can provide us with
| > | > > your questions the better we will be able to help you.
| > | > > Take the time to state your situation clearly and fully.
| > | > >
| > | > > >-----Original Message-----
| > | > > >The page narrows and crunches the words together when I
| > | > > go from design view
| > | > > >to preview.
| > | > > >Why is it doing that?
| > | > > >.
| > | > > >
| > | > >
| >
| >
| >
 
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