Undelined dotted text in "Design" mode

[tloke1]

1. I have been using the Hot Dog Pro editor for several years now and just started using Front Page... but I have just noticed that while editing some of my HTML pages some of them have all of the text underlined with dotted lines, while other pages do not have any lines at all. On yet other pages just a paragraph or two has the lines while other paragraphs do not. I have searched all over through the FP Help section and can find no reference to this, nor how to turn it off. I have compared my HTML code on two exact same paragraphs, one having the lines and one without and can see no difference.

2. Is there a way that when opening up a new file that "Files of Type" can be remembered? Everytime I open up my web page folder I have to select "HTML" for the files type as I have them mixed in with graphics files and the default in FP, for some odd reason, is "All Files". In Hot Dog Pro, common sense was used for this feature, it would remember, until changed, any "File type" setting that you last entered.

 

[Garridon]

For the first one, the dotted line is probably a table with the line width set to zero.

For the second one, when you go to File>Open, it should only show the web pages by default. Are you using a subweb for your Web site? If you just created a folder on your computer and started saving in that, that could be the problem. FP treats a subweb as a completely enclosed environment (if it's a folder, there will be other problems, like the links not working properly when published online). If this is the case, the best way to fix it is to select FILE>NEW and choose subweb. You can then import all your files into the new subweb.

Linda Adams

http://www.hackman-adams.com

http://www.david-hedison.com

 

[tloke1]

Linda, thank you for your reply. I finally figured out what the dotted lines are - they represent Bookmarks. What;s strange is that I can open files that I had never opened in FP, ones that were composed in a completely different program (Hot Dog 6.5) and yet some of these files have all kinds of bookmarks and others have none.

The problem is, I cannot find a way to globally delete the Bookmarks, or to turn the Bookmark feature off. This is real annoying, as when tons of text has these dotted lines it makes it much harder to read.

And in FP, when you bring up the Bookmarks on a given page, you can open a drop-down list that shows all of the bookmarks. You can highlight one and then delete it - but guess what, you CANNOT highlight more than one!! You have to delete each Bookmark one at a time. Typical programmers, always turning "On" features you don't want by default and making them impossible or hard to turn off.

I will never be using the useless (to me anyway) Bookmark feature, and why they don't offer a simple way to turn it off is beyond comprehension.

As far as the files go, I never knew that FP required a "Subweb" layout, in HD Pro you could just open files from any folder and everything would work perfectly. I just tried what you suggested, and it loaded all of the files into a "site".

But still two problems - one, my links do not work between my different HTML pages. If I have links to the same page, those work, but not ones that change to a different page. Two, all of my files are mixed and in FP I cannot select ".htm" for the file display, I must weed through all of the image files. HDPro allowed you to select all "htm" or just "jpg"/Image files for example.

 

[Garridon]

Sounds like the bookmarks might be conversion errors between the new program and the old program. Microsoft received a lot of complaints from users about FP adding extra code to a Web page when it came from another program. This is cleared up in the new release due out soon.

However, there is a way to eliminate the bookmarks from a page. It's not a global replace through the entire site, but you can do it to an entire paragraph or page, depending on your content.

Highlight the text and cut it. Now select EDIT>PASTE SPECIAL>NORMAL PARAGRAPHS. The bookmarks will be gone.

To fix the links, go to VIEW>REPORTS>PROBLEMS>BROKEN HYPERLINKS. That will identify what links are broken, and you can edit the pages directly by clicking on the file name. Without it being in a subweb, any links would have pointed to your hard drive--not noticable until you published the site.

AS to viewing htm/html files, you can go to the folder view. Each column has a label like, 'Name' or 'Size.' Click on type, and it will sort it by the file extension so all the html/htm are grouped together.

Linda Adams

http://www.hackman-adams.com

http://www.david-hedison.com

 

[Garridon]

Oops--forgot to add that when you do paste special, you will loose other formatting unless you're using a style sheet.


Linda Adams

http://www.hackman-adams.com

http://www.david-hedison.com