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Bill gold

Thanks Theresa but it offers no help.
I am a writer who now works on the web not a geek.
The reason I use FP is because as the tags grew and html left the world of
normal people I sought refuge in an easy to use front end program
(unfortunately I chose FP) which is more than ever becoming more complex and
impenetrable.
My document is now covered with span and div tags (among others) that I
can't comprehend.
The body tag has always been automatically inserted by FP and carris nothing
with it.
I have been working with Word style sheets for nearly 20 years and have no
problems. All I am trying to do is format my Normal paragraph but I can't
change the Normal paragaph listed in the style box on the formatting toolbar.
 
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Mark Fitzpatrick

The body element controls some of the global properties of the page.
Basically things such as background color, the default color for links in
the page, and also provides some programming hooks, such as exposing the
OnLoad event of a page allowing scripts to be run when the page loads.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
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Murray

The body tag says to the browser "get out of 'metadata' mode and start
writing stuff to the screen". Presumably, everything between <body> and
</body> is there for 'presentation' in the browser. In this sense, then,
it's merely a 'mile marker' on the page.

Unfortunately, even as a writer, if you are going to build web pages, you
are going to have to learn some HTML. In the same sense, if I want to be a
writer I am (probably) going to have to learn how to use a word processor.
I could say that I have no interest in computers, but who do you know that
doesn't use one?

As the web becomes more complex, the programs that author pages to work on
the web must also become more complex.

Now - you can use CSS to change the format and style for your 'normal'
paragraph on any page. How would you like to change it?
 
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Theresa Bennett

Hi Bill,

If you are moving Word docs content into HTML you might try pasting the
content into notepad first then copy & paste them from notepad into HTML to
strip out the Word formatting, then reformat your content in HTML with FP.
FP is just a tool and Word is not an HTML tool.

HTH
 
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KatWoman

I have had a lot of trouble with pasting from WORD too!! My client submitted
all her website info as .doc's. She is also quite picky about using certain
spacing and punctuations in WORD that do not work right in FP.

FP being a GOOD and EASY software compared to most other webpage creators,
you will notice a small tag after you paste, asking if you wish to keep the
format from WORD (less editing options) or if you wish to paste as PLAIN
text (more editable).

I didn't know the little trick of using notepad to eliminate the formatting
WORD is adding to the text. I will try this in the future. Thanks.

If you don't want to see the tags when you are in design mode click VIEW
hide/reveal tags.

I love the hide/reveal tags they sometimes can show why your text/bullet is
not doing what you want.
 
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