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About links in Web frames

Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003

You can specify which page first appears in a Web frame (frames: The named subwindow of a frames page. The frame appears in a Web browser as one of a number of window regions in which pages can be displayed. The frame can be scrollable and resizable, and it can have a border.), which frame a hyperlink (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) opens in, and the default frame for hyperlinks in a frames page.

Controlling navigation among Web frames is important, so that users don't get lost while browsing your site, and so that no stray frames remain when the user moves to another Web site.

Show Specifying the initial page that a frame displays

You can choose what is going to appear in each frame when a user opens the frames page. For example, the top frame might contain a header, the left frame a table of contents, and the right frame a welcome page.

Each time a user opens the frames page, the pages that you choose appear in the designated frames.

Show Creating hyperlinks between frames

You can create a hyperlink in one frame pointing to a Web page or Web site that opens in a different frame.

When a user clicks the hyperlink, the Web page or Web site opens in the designated frame. For example, in the left frame you have a hyperlink to a personnel Web page. When a user clicks the hyperlink, the Web page opens in the right frame.

You can also specify that a hyperlink will open a page in the same frame, in the "parent" frames page, or in a new window.

Show Setting default frames for hyperlinks

If you know how all hyperlinks should open in your frames page, you can specify a default target frame. When a user clicks a hyperlink anywhere in that frames page, it will appear in the frame that you specify.

You can specify a frame that you have named or specify that hyperlinks open in the same frame, in the "parent" frames page, or in a new window.