FP2000: Shared Border on a Word HTML File are not Displayed Properly

• Microsoft FrontPage 2000
• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Save As Web Page command to save a Word document into a FrontPage web and then apply Shared Borders to the page in FrontPage, the Shared Borders are not displayed in your Web browser.

CAUSE

Microsoft Word writes an Originator meta tag into the HTML document which FrontPage does not remove when the document is saved in FrontPage. FrontPage does not remove the Originator meta in order prevent the application of Themes to the document.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

1. In FrontPage, double-click the Word document to open it in Page view.



2. Click the HTML tab at the bottom of the Page view window.



3. Locate the following tag and delete it:





<meta name=Originator content =<"Microsoft Word 9"> 



4. On the File menu, click Save.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

If you want to edit the Word document in Word after you apply Shared Borders to it in FrontPage, you will need to remove the Originator meta tag from the source code again. Please refer to the RESOLUTION section of this article for information on how to do this.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug