FrontPage® 2000 FAQ
FP Annoyances & Cures
Getting Rid of New Page on Startup
One of the annoying things about FP is, when it starts up, it naturally assumes you want a new page created. If you want to get rid of this, then there is an excellent add-in available. See Jimco's FP2000 Add-ins
If you find that certain features are not available to you in FP2000, then there's a good chance that your compatibility settings are incorrect to use that feature. Go to "Tools | Page Options" in the menu, and click the "Compatibility" tab. Ensure that "Browser" and "Browser Types" are set to "Custom". Also check the appropriate "Technologies" you require, at the bottom of this tab.
Do a search on your computer for a file called cmdUI.prf. If found, delete it and restart FP2000.
This can be caused by a number of problems, but usually one of the following :
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Incorrect URL or Path for the image in your HTML.
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You are trying to use an incorrect picture format (e.g. Bitmap)
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Image name or reference contains capital letters or spaces, or invalid characters.
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GIF / JPG files are not associated with your browser through Windows.
(The last two are rare, but have been known to happen from time to time)
Also check the properties of the folder containing the images, by right-clicking it in the folder list. The "Files can be Browsed" and "Scripts can be Run" check boxes should be checked.
IE Users
If all else fails, go to your control panel's Install/Uninstall programs. Select IE and press "add/remove". You are then presented with the option to "repair" the current installation of IE. When finished, you are then asked to reboot.
A common request in FP newsgroups. Funny that the guys who designed FP2000, forgot to include this feature. One way around this is to use a screen capture utility, and then print out from that, although this method is far from perfect.
Let's hope they will include the "print report" feature in the next version of FP.
This is usually caused, by a web page being too large. FP2000 has an upper limit on the size of files that can be opened for editing in Page View.
If a file has more than 32,767 lines of code, FP2000 won't be able to open it in Page View, and will "hang" as a result.
Try to keep your web page code sizes well below this limit.
This is a common problem, usually caused, by an application overwriting an existing copy of this file, during installation. It can also occur, if the registry has been damaged, or contains an incorrect value.
There are several articles below, one of which should apply to your situation.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q245/0/57.asp
http://www.techadvice.com/w98/M/mfc42_dll.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q227/1/76.ASP
This is another common problem. This can usually be corrected by deleting the file in question.
Shut down FP and do a search on your computer for the file "service.lck". If found delete it, then restart FP and refresh your web.
Sometimes this file has become "Read Only" which is usually the cause of the error in the first place. If this is the case, you will need to alter the file attributes to "Read/Write" before you can delete it.
Also, if you have imported or published from write protected media (such as a CD) then you need to ensure all your web's files are not also "Read Only".
Page shows in IE but not in Netscape
This is usually caused by FrontPage not inserting closing </body> and </html> tags at the bottom of the page(s) in question.
Sometimes FrontPage gets confused by code it cannot understand in your page (usually scripts) and doesn't know where and when to put these tags in. So you have to put them in manually.
Check the bottom of your page in HTML view and make sure it ends with the following tags :
</body>
</html>
Also check all other tags in the page HTML, to make sure they have closing tags too.
The reason IE still shows the page regardless, is because IE renders HTML in a way that is more forgiving than Netscape. (Although some say this is a bad thing and leads to sloppy coding).
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