Tips and Tricks for FrontPage

What You Want to Do

Expected Audience: Intermediate

If you are using Microsoft FrontPage®shared templates with other authors that are working on the same Web, anyone who opens the Web can create new pages based on your shared templates, which are listed along with the default templates in the New dialog box. Likewise, anyone who has access to the Web can modify shared templates.

Feature to Use

• Save as...FrontPage Template

Specific Steps to Take

To modify an existing shared template, follow these steps:

Note  Any user who can open the web can modify existing shared templates.

1. On the File menu in Page view, point to New, and then click Page.
2. Click the tab (General, Frames Pages, or Style Sheets) that contains the shared template you want to modify, and then in the list of templates, double-click the shared template.
3. FrontPage opens a new page based on the shared template.
4. Modify the new page to reflect the changes you want to make to the shared template.
5. On the File menu, click Save As, and then in the Save As Type box, click FrontPage Template (*.tem).
6. In the File Name box, type the file name of the shared template, and then click Save.
7. In the Save As Template dialog box, type a title for the template in the Title box. You can type the same title that you originally used, or type a different one.
8. In the Description box, type a brief description of the template. You can type the same description that you originally used, or type a different one.
9. Click the Save Template in Current Web check box, and then click OK.
10. When FrontPage prompts you to replace the existing template, click Yes.