Lesson 2: Web Page Design in the FrontPage Editor

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Inserting Files

In Lesson 1, you added text to your pages by typing it on the page using the FrontPage Editor. There may be times, however, when it will be easier to transfer content to your Web pages from other documents.

With the FrontPage Editor, you can insert the following types of text files into your pages:

• ASCII Text (TXT)
  
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
  
• Hypertext Markup Language (HTM or HTML)
  
• Word Processing (including Microsoft Word)
  
• Spreadsheet (including Microsoft Excel)

The file you will insert in this lesson is a standard text file.

To Insert a Text File on a Page

With the Tutorial Practice page still open in the FrontPage Editor, ensure the insertion point is at the top left of the page.

1. On the FrontPage Editor's Insert menu, choose File.

   The Select File dialog box is displayed. The file you want to insert is named tutorial.txt.

2. In the Select File dialog box, change the Files of Type field to "Text Files (*.txt)."
   
   
3. Next, navigate to the following folder (assuming you installed FrontPage in the \Program Files folder on your C:\ drive):

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\tutorial\

   If you changed the default installation drive or folder during FrontPage Setup, you'll need to adjust this path accordingly.

4. Select the file tutorial.txt, then click Open.
   
   
5. In the Convert Text dialog box, choose Normal Paragraphs and click OK.

FrontPage imports the contents of the text file and places it on the current page.

To Save the Current Page

• On the FrontPage Editor's File menu, choose Save.

The page is saved to the current FrontPage-based Web site.