FP2003 - Problem with View dropdown on Menu bar

[Nancy]

I just bought FrontPage2003 (Academic) and did a full
install but on the View drop-down menu on the Menu bar,
only the Page view is available; none of the other views
(folders, reports, navigation, hyperlinks, tasks) are
available (all are grayed out except Page view). I've
checked and double-checked the page options, options,
customize, etc. menus and can't find anything that
pertains to the views. I reinstalled (custom this time)
so I could make sure that everything was "run from my pc"
and I still don't have any views available except for Page
view. I checked the drop-down both with a new blank page
and with the webpage(s) I created in the past few days
since installing and there's no difference. Did I miss
something? Or do I have a bad package? I'm running XP
Home with plenty of RAM and HD space. Thanks for any help.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Presume you are talking about your menus
Did you set View Toolbars Customize Options to always display full menus
And do you have a Web open (not just a page) - File New Site




| I just bought FrontPage2003 (Academic) and did a full
| install but on the View drop-down menu on the Menu bar,
| only the Page view is available; none of the other views
| (folders, reports, navigation, hyperlinks, tasks) are
| available (all are grayed out except Page view). I've
| checked and double-checked the page options, options,
| customize, etc. menus and can't find anything that
| pertains to the views. I reinstalled (custom this time)
| so I could make sure that everything was "run from my pc"
| and I still don't have any views available except for Page
| view. I checked the drop-down both with a new blank page
| and with the webpage(s) I created in the past few days
| since installing and there's no difference. Did I miss
| something? Or do I have a bad package? I'm running XP
| Home with plenty of RAM and HD space. Thanks for any help.

 

[Nancy]

Yes, thanks, view all options is the first thing I do when a new program is installed (I hate options not showing). Also, I had created 5 linked pages with this software after I installed it last weekend and they seem to work fine except for those View menu options being unavailable. However, after reading your response more closely, I went back into FrontPage to File ... New and I see what you were saying. I built the pages from the first option (blank page) instead of the One Page Web listed below. I selected the One Page Web now and the View menu is ok - all the options show up. So I don't understand why Microsoft has it that way, but now I see I'll need to build my pages off the other option. Thank you very much - I never would have thought of that.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Always start w/ a web/site, then you can just add pages




| Yes, thanks, view all options is the first thing I do when a new program is installed (I hate options not showing). Also, I had
created 5 linked pages with this software after I installed it last weekend and they seem to work fine except for those View menu
options being unavailable. However, after reading your response more closely, I went back into FrontPage to File ... New and I see
what you were saying. I built the pages from the first option (blank page) instead of the One Page Web listed below. I selected
the One Page Web now and the View menu is ok - all the options show up. So I don't understand why Microsoft has it that way, but
now I see I'll need to build my pages off the other option. Thank you very much - I never would have thought of that.