Microsoft Office 2000 makes it easy to incorporate your Word documents, Excel workbooks, or PowerPoint® presentations into your FrontPage®-based web. Simply by saving a document to the Web folder where your FrontPage-based web is stored, you can add the document to your web.

You can save the document in its binary format (.doc, .xls, .ppt) or save it as a Web page (.htm). Once the document is in your web, you can edit it by running FrontPage or by running the application you used to create it. You can use FrontPage to create hyperlinks to the document or add the document to your web's navigation structure.

Saving a Document to a FrontPage-Based Web

You can save an Office document to your web in either of two formats:

• Binary format (.doc for Word, .xls for Excel, .ppt for PowerPoint)
• HTML format (Web page)

If you save the document in binary format, visitors to your Web site must have the appropriate Office application to view the document. If you save the document in HTML format, visitors can view the document in their Web browser even if they don't have Office.

To save an Office document in binary format in a FrontPage-based Web

1. Open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and create the document.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.
3. In the Save As dialog box, click the Web Folders button.
4. Double-click the URL of your FrontPage-based web, or, if it doesn't appear in the list, type the URL in the File name box and press ENTER.
5. In the File name box, type a name for the file, and then click Save.

The procedure for saving a document as a Web page varies slightly according to the Office application you're using. For more information about saving documents as Web pages, type save as web page in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Help window, and then click Search.

Editing Office Documents in a FrontPage-Based Web

Once an Office document is in your FrontPage-based web, you can edit it by running FrontPage or by running the application you used to create the document. If you published only a portion of the document to the web (PowerPoint and Excel only), open the original file you used to publish the Web page, make changes in the file, and republish the slides or worksheets.

To use Office applications for editing documents in a web

1. Open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, and, on the File menu, click Open.
2. In the Open dialog box, click the Web Folders button.
3. Double-click the URL of your FrontPage-based web.
4. Select the name of the document, and then click Open.

To edit Office documents in FrontPage

1. Click the Folder List button to display the list of folders and files in the web.
2. Double click the document you want to edit.

If you saved your Office document in binary format, FrontPage automatically runs the appropriate application when you double-click the document. If you saved the document as a Web page, you can either edit the document in Page view in FrontPage, or you can configure FrontPage to run the appropriate application for editing the document.

To configure FrontPage to run an Office application for editing Web pages

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. On the Configure Editors tab, select the Open web pages in the Office application that created them check box.

Making an Office Document Fit into the Look of Your FrontPage-Based Web

You can use formatting and navigation features to allow site visitors to browse seamlessly between Office documents and other content in your web. Use Office applications to configure some formatting, and use FrontPage to configure other formatting and navigation.

If you have a theme applied to your FrontPage-based web, you can apply a matching theme to your Office document for a unified look.

To apply a theme to a Word document

• In Word, on the Format menu, click Theme, and then select a theme from the list.

To apply a theme to a PowerPoint presentation

• In PowerPoint, on the Format menu, click Apply Design Template, and then select a presentation design from the list.

If you saved an Excel worksheet in HTML format, you can apply the web theme to the pages in FrontPage. (You can't apply themes to workbooks.)

To apply a theme to an Excel worksheet

1. In FrontPage, open the worksheet in Page view, and, on the Format menu, click Theme.
2. Select the Selected Page(s) option, and select the theme that is indicated as the default theme in the list.

FrontPage-based webs often use shared borders to hold navigational elements such as navigation bars and page banners. Using shared borders this way provides site visitors with a consistent navigational structure through the Web site. If your FrontPage-based web employs shared borders, you can add these to documents you've saved in HTML format (Word documents and Excel worksheets only). If you saved the Office document in binary format, you can't add shared borders to it.

To add shared borders to Office documents saved as Web pages

1. In FrontPage, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then clear the Open web pages in the Office application that created them check box.
2. Double-click the Office document in the Folder List to open it in Page view.
3. On the Format menu, click Shared Borders.
4. Select the Current Page option, and select the Reset border for current page to web default check box.

You can create hyperlinks in your FrontPage-based web to open any Office document in any format. For example, in FrontPage, you can click and drag the document from the Folder List to a page that's open in Page view to create a link to the document. You can also create a link to the document in navigation bars that appear on other pages in the web. Navigation bars use the navigational structure of a web to determine which hyperlinks to display on a given page.

To add an Office document to the navigational structure of a web

1. In FrontPage, click the Navigation button in the Views bar to see the web in navigation view, and then click the Folder List button to open the folder list.
2. Click the Office document in the Folder List and drag it to a page to make the document a child of that page in the navigational hierarchy.

For more information about navigation view and navigation bars, see Navigation Structure on the Contents tab in FrontPage Help.

More Information

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