Stupid stupid change in Frontpage

[Pdigmking]

For some reason the geniuses at MS decided to "automate" part of the
hyperlink process in Frontpage 2003. Used to be when you added a hyperlink
you could cut and paste into the link box. No more. Now you have to
actually type the friggen address. This greatly increases the chances of
screwing up the link and having to go back and do it again. Sure,
supposedly you can go and look it up in recently browsed pages, but guess
what, that doesn't work the pages I've browsed and need to link to aren't
there!!!! It's stupid anyways because when I build a web page I'm creating
links to pages that I may not have browsed to recently. I have a list of
all the links associated with my web site, I used to be able to go to that
and cut and paste the links.. not anymore.

Stupid stupid stupid. The cheapest crap free program you can download lets
you cut and paste text, but NOT MS Frontpage. Morons.

The thing that really cheeses me off is I used to be able to cut and paste
with the frontpage that came with MS Office, I actually went out and paid
more for the supposedly "enhanced" Frontpage.

Oh and another thing, the damn program always defaults to the document and
settings web page folder, when you want to open a document- AND YOU CAN'T
CHANGE THAT!!!! Did it ever occur to you people that someone may want work
out of different directory? Every friggen time I want to work on a webpage
I have to go through extra steps to get to the directory I actually work
from.

Do me a favor; stop trying to make things "easy". These automations you
people keep building in are stupid and unecissary. At the very least build
some manual overides for this stuff.

Paul.

 

[Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv]

Dear Paul,

You CAN paste into the link box. No, you cannot use the right click
menu, like you are probably used to doing, and there are several good
reasons why. I won't go into them here.

To paste a link, copy it, put the cursor in the link box in FP2003, and
hit CTRL-V. It is the standard paste key combination for all Windows
machines. The entire list of keyboard shortcuts can be found at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583

I used CTRL-V to paste that there, too. Good luck, Paul.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv

 

[Pdigmking]

Dude. I copy and paste every day. FP2003.
Chill.

OK.

You CAN paste into the link box. No, you cannot use the right click
menu, like you are probably used to doing, and there are several good
reasons why. I won't go into them here.

To paste a link, copy it, put the cursor in the link box in FP2003, and
hit CTRL-V. It is the standard paste key combination for all Windows
machines. The entire list of keyboard shortcuts can be found at:

OK, I can paste, but CTRL-V is hardly intuitive, and it is a change from
previous versions. I have other programs that won't let you right click,
but you can go to "edit" and manually paste. I'm glad I can cut and
paste, and I thank you for the info, but my complaint stands.

And in addition to what others have already stated...

If you have a website or URL from the web that you want to link to,
highlight the text on your page where you want to add the link....open
your browser (I use IE) to the page you want to link to (or have it
already opened)....then go back to FP and click on the "create link"
button ....when the dialogue box opens, click back to your browser,
then back to FP and the URL that you have open in the browser will
appear in the dialogue box (like magic)....Click save/okay and you're
done.

Now this is cool, thank you.

Thanks for the info. I appoligize for the rant but this it is
frustrating to get held up by such a simple thing, and the problem is
caused by attempts to automate simple tasks. One thing it is to add
features, but when you take features away and completely replace them
with supposed automation... For instance, it's actually gotten more
difficult to highlight text in Word because the program tries guess what
you are going to highlight rather than just let you do it.

By the way, I realize this is a newgroups and I'm not actually talking to
MS here.

Paul

 

[KatWoman]

OK, I can paste, but CTRL-V is hardly intuitive, and it is a change from
previous versions. I have other programs that won't let you right click,
but you can go to "edit" and manually paste. I'm glad I can cut and
paste, and I thank you for the info, but my complaint stands.


Now this is cool, thank you.

Thanks for the info. I appoligize for the rant but this it is
frustrating to get held up by such a simple thing, and the problem is
caused by attempts to automate simple tasks. One thing it is to add
features, but when you take features away and completely replace them
with supposed automation... For instance, it's actually gotten more
difficult to highlight text in Word because the program tries guess what
you are going to highlight rather than just let you do it.

By the way, I realize this is a newgroups and I'm not actually talking to
MS here.

Paul

OK, I can paste, but CTRL-V is hardly intuitive,

LOL that's really funny
Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl X to cut and Ctrl V to paste are ancient!!!!!! Been
in Windows (all programs in Windows do this) since maybe 3.1?? (1996?)

For instance, it's actually gotten more

difficult to highlight text in Word because the program tries guess what
you are going to highlight rather than just let you do it.

try looking in preferences> all the default settings can be customized
if you don't like it, turn it off!

 

[Pdigmking]

OK, I can paste, but CTRL-V is hardly intuitive,

LOL that's really funny
Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl X to cut and Ctrl V to paste are ancient!!!!!!
Been in Windows (all programs in Windows do this) since maybe 3.1??
(1996?)

Intuitive: Of knowledge or mental perception: Known or apprehended
immediately and fully without reasoning.

LOL... been in the dictionary since 1690. (Oxford English Dictionary of
course)

In the mid 80s I used an IBM with five inch floppys and a program called
Wordstar to write my senior thesis. No mouse. You had to load DOS by
first inserting the DOS floppy, taking that out, and then insterting the
program disk. I've used every MS OS since then from DOS 2 up to XP. I'm
quite familiar with keystrokes, and I see the key cammand listed next to
the functions in the menu. What is not intuitive, is that 20 years after
intruducing windows, MS would suddenly render ubiquitous mouse functions
completely useless in a program where it had previously been enabled.

For instance, it's actually gotten more

try looking in preferences> all the default settings can be customized
if you don't like it, turn it off!

Like I said, this is more complicated, I'm now required to go through
several extra steps in order to deactivate an annoying automated feature
that has been set as the default.



Paul.

 

[Cloy]

LOL that's really funny
Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl X to cut and Ctrl V to paste are ancient!!!!!! Been
in Windows (all programs in Windows do this) since maybe 3.1?? (1996?)

She's right -- and before that it was a standard on the Macintosh,
which was introduced in 1984.
(Okay, it was Command not Control -- but they correspond.)

-c