FrontPage Menus Versus Buttons

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Choosing a FrontPage 98 menu item doesn't always yield the same results as clicking on the associated toolbar button. Case in point: the New command. Clicking the New button on the toolbar in the FrontPage Editor creates and opens a single blank page in the FrontPage Editor, but choosing New . . . from the File menu opens a dialog box that lets you choose from a number of new page templates, including frames page templates, for automatically creating pages that include forms, multiple columns and aligned text, frames, and more. As a rule of thumb, when the actions differ, the toolbar button is more likely to quickly yield a single result, while a menu item may reveal more options.