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When you try to insert a WordArt drawing item or any of the new drawing tools into a shared border in a page created with Microsoft FrontPage® 2002, either the choice is grayed out, or nothing shows up after you insert the item.

This is because WordArt and all other drawing items use Vector Markup Language (VML). Due to the way that VML requires the page to be written and how your browser renders shared borders, both cannot be written to the same page at the same time. Here is a procedure that you can use to display a WordArt drawing item in a shared border of a page. This does not work with other drawing tools, only WordArt.

To insert a WordArt drawing into a shared border, open a new or existing Web page with shared borders and do the following in Page view:

1. On the Tools menu, point to Web Settings and then click the Advanced tab.
2. Click the Show Hidden files and folders check box and click OK.
3. When FrontPage prompts you to refresh the Web, click the Yes button.
4. In Folder List view, open the _borders folder and then open the page called top.htm.
5. On the Insert menu, select Picture and then click on WordArt.
6. In the WordArt Gallery, select a style and click OK.
7. In Edit WordArt Text, select font, font properties, enter text to appear and click OK.
8. In the File menu, click Save to save top.htm.
9. Return to the folder where your Web site pages are and open a regular page that uses the top.htm shared border.

   Note  You will not see the drawing in the shared border at this point. This is by design as described above. To display the WordArt within the shared border, you need to create a hidden WordArt item in the body of the page using that shared border (see steps 10 through 14).

10. In Page view, click in the body of the page.
11. From the Insert menu, select Picture and then click on WordArt.
12. In WordArt Gallery, choose any style and click OK.
13. In Edit WordArt Text, type only a single space (no letters) for the text, click OK, and save the page.
14. In the File menu, click Preview in Browser to view the page in Internet Explorer 5 or above.

Tip   To display the WordArt text in the shared border in other pages, you must repeat steps 10 through 14 for each page you want the WordArt to appear in on your Web site.

More information

For more information about Shared Borders or WordArt, see Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Help.