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Thanks for coming back to me on this – however on Frontpage 97 (which we have been using up til a month or so ago…this caused other issues!!) we were able to set a Search Scope, where you could determine the folders that would be searched for a particular search.

I already have a subweb setup, for one particular area of our intranet, however when performing a search within this subweb it will search the entire site, and return results from the entire site – not just the subweb. After hunting through the Microsoft site, there was a suggestion that instead of setting search scope, you could set a ‘Word List to search’ for the search results pane, and from my reading this suggests that you can enter the name of the folder you wish to search, but it still returns the search from the entire site.

Can anyone give me a step to a hint before I start to think I’m going mad?
Thanks

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me..I have managed to share the settings with another Office 2k machine, by popping the .pcb file into the documents and settings/username/application data/microsoft/powerpoint folder. This appear to be the same within Office 2003 as I now have it working there…now the only problem is how to roll this out to a number of users, especially when most of our PCs are shared by more than one user…

Thanks again!

Alba

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me on this!

I am finding that since I have to connect to the backup copy as a file path rather than http: that I cannot get access to some of the Frontpage features such as checking a form properties or a search properties..so any changes to these files are having to be completed on the live server. Therefore the copy on the live server is newer than the backup version. So even if I select either the option to “Determine the changes by comparing source and destination webs” or to “use the source timestamps to determine changes since last published” when publishing it will pick out the fact that the file on the live server has changed and will try to overwrite the newer version on the live server with the outdated version from the backup.

Is there anyway that I can set the program to determine whether a file is older or newer (rather than just different) than the one on the live server, and to not publish files where the date stamp is newer on the live server?? Even anywhere within the server extensions?

Thanks again!

Lor

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me on this!

I am finding that since I have to connect to the backup copy as a file path rather than http: that I cannot get access to some of the Frontpage features such as checking a form properties or a search properties..so any changes to these files are having to be completed on the live server. Therefore the copy on the live server is newer than the backup version. So even if I select either the option to “Determine the changes by comparing source and destination webs” or to “use the source timestamps to determine changes since last published” when publishing it will pick out the fact that the file on the live server has changed and will try to overwrite the newer version on the live server with the outdated version from the backup.

Is there anyway that I can set the program to determine whether a file is older or newer (rather than just different) than the one on the live server, and to not publish files where the date stamp is newer on the live server?? Even anywhere within the server extensions?

Thanks again!

Lor

Thanks for getting back to me Catharine. I have tried to ignore the error message and carry on regardless, and it will save the form into the Web. But when I try to run the form from a browser I see yet another error message:

FrontPage Run Time component Page – You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a web server and the FrontPage SErver Extensions to function properly. This form or other Frontpage component will work correctly if you publish this web to a web server that has the Frontpage server extensions installed.

Any further clues??

Thanks

Thanks for getting back to me Catharine. I have tried to ignore the error message and carry on regardless, and it will save the form into the Web. But when I try to run the form from a browser I see yet another error message:

FrontPage Run Time component Page – You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a web server and the FrontPage SErver Extensions to function properly. This form or other Frontpage component will work correctly if you publish this web to a web server that has the Frontpage server extensions installed.

Any further clues??

Thanks

Hi there,

When I refer to seeing both sets of options…one for FPSE2000 and the other for FPSE2002, I am seeing this on IIS on the web server and not from Frontpage on the server.

When I mentioned creating forms I have been trying to do this from frontpage 2002 on a client machine. Hope this gives you the details you need!

Thanks!

Still don’t have an answer myself – but its good to know I’m not alone!!

Lor ;O)

Oooh, there’s an idea – I’ve only tried to view the file in Outlook. I’ll give Outlook Express a try!

Thanks!

Oooh, there’s an idea – I’ve only tried to view the file in Outlook. I’ll give Outlook Express a try!

Thanks!

Initially I thought that Word was the way to go, but the attachment does not really show the level of graphics that are going to be in the final document.

The problem is that these pages change quite dramatically in graphic style and they rely heavily on some more advanced features of Word (ie understanding the significance of page breaks, and having a firm grasp of graphic elements…). I have created a Word template that will incorporate all the features these documents will need, but seeing the timescales these will have to be prepared within, and knowing how the content is decided upon (….imagine about 10-15 people each having input spread throughout the country, each thinking they have editorial control, expecting a complete revamp when it is due at a client in under three hours time) it ends up too cumbersome to amend, edit and swap about.

Powerpoint has a lovely feature that you can see all the page in one screen and completely change the order of the document simply by dragging and dropping. You don’t have to worry that you catch the relevant page break when cutting and pasting…and the bottom line “they” want us to do it in PowerPoint!

The majority of the pages in these reports will not be a text heavy as the attachment, but will have a series of pages with bullet points, charts and tables. The attachment is merely as a covering letter (I know – I’ve told them “Why not do the letter in Word?” but it has to be one document.)

So in a nutshell, the glitch I have with the hidden text isn’t really a biggie, and I’m sure through user training that I could get round it, but if there is an answer, I’d appreciate it!

Cheers!

Lauren

Initially I thought that Word was the way to go, but the attachment does not really show the level of graphics that are going to be in the final document.

The problem is that these pages change quite dramatically in graphic style and they rely heavily on some more advanced features of Word (ie understanding the significance of page breaks, and having a firm grasp of graphic elements…). I have created a Word template that will incorporate all the features these documents will need, but seeing the timescales these will have to be prepared within, and knowing how the content is decided upon (….imagine about 10-15 people each having input spread throughout the country, each thinking they have editorial control, expecting a complete revamp when it is due at a client in under three hours time) it ends up too cumbersome to amend, edit and swap about.

Powerpoint has a lovely feature that you can see all the page in one screen and completely change the order of the document simply by dragging and dropping. You don’t have to worry that you catch the relevant page break when cutting and pasting…and the bottom line “they” want us to do it in PowerPoint!

The majority of the pages in these reports will not be a text heavy as the attachment, but will have a series of pages with bullet points, charts and tables. The attachment is merely as a covering letter (I know – I’ve told them “Why not do the letter in Word?” but it has to be one document.)

So in a nutshell, the glitch I have with the hidden text isn’t really a biggie, and I’m sure through user training that I could get round it, but if there is an answer, I’d appreciate it!

Cheers!

Lauren

Hi Dave,

Thanks for getting back to me. I have mocked up a page that is similar to what I ultimately want to achieve and attached it to this post. Unfortunately this example did not produce any hidden text (its always the same!!! When you want it to not work….)

I know that PowerPoint has not been designed to handle what I am trying to do as it is a presentation package and not a Word Processing package, but we are trying to create some graphic rich documents and for the layouts we are trying to achieve PowerPoint is going to be the easiest (my users have yet to get to grips with Page and Section Breaks in Word!!)

It is not the end of the world if there is no “fix” for my problem – I know how to unhide the text and I’m sure I’ll be able to instruct my users as to how to do this, but just in case you know….

Thanks!

Lauren

Great thanks! I never thought to try the Right Click – it works a treat!

Thanks again

Lauren

Thanks for the suggestions – I’ll give them a wee try and get back to you!

Cheers!

Lauren