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Dear Jerry,

Thank you for your response. The changes you propose depend upon specifying the width of the container or the width of the table plus the margins. I am seeking to have the width adjust automatically to the width of the table plus the margins. Then the dozens of tables I have in my site can have a border with rounded corners without me have to establish the width of each table. Each table would have the same css using an id to differentiate one from another.

Apologies not necessary Steve – perhaps I should have given more of the details in my first post!

I think I have already done what you suggest by inserting the sound file onto the first slide. Then by `rehearsing’ I’ve timed the the display of each slide to suit the narration. The problem is that on several other computers a lag develops between the slide show and the sound resulting in the narration continuing a significant amount of time after the show has finished. The article to which I referred suggests to me that it is possible to time the narration to its relevant slide so that there is a sound file for each slide. As there are 123 slides and 48 minutes of narration it is time consuming task but it could be done manually in a wave editor and then each sound file inserted onto the appropriate slide. I have the time (retired) but not the inclination. I would prefer a more elegant solution.

Also I have tried the Pack and Go feature without success – but I will try it again. Thank you for your input – it is very much appreciated. Malcolm

Steve,

Thank you for replying. I am aware of the recording facilities in PowerPoint 2000 – and my enquiry was specific.

The narration is a professional recording the use of which is the subject of written permission from its publisher. I wish to record the narration matching the slide presentation to the script. A method of doing this is set out at: http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00703.htm%5B/url%5D and I am seeking guidance as to the meaning or amplification (!) of the words in that FAQ:

>I exported the audio to MiniDisc and then ported that back to the computer and told PowerPoint to use it as I recorded the narration.<

Any assistance or advice in this regard would be very much appreciated.

Hans, Thank you

Steve and Hans,

The short time taken for your replies to my enquiry has me overawed. Do the timings of 13 and 14 minutes indicate competition or coincidence? {8;-)) Whatever I am truly grateful for the procedures you have given me.

And I have a supplementary. As the working worksheet has of the order of 600 rows is there a way to ensure apparently empty cells are indeed blank?

Jerry,

What I am aiming for can be seen on my development site at the url: http://www.mewalker.co.uk/membersarea%5B/url%5D. Please have a look and let me know if what you are telling me about one page is consistent with what you see. In the left hand vertical navigation click on the Fixtures and Bookings link and initially go to the January page as this is the nearest to `finished’.

If I have one page then in the rendered HTML I think it would have at least 7000 lines!

Jerry,

ASP? Thank you but your suggestion takes me into the unknown!

For my monthly diaries would I need 12 pages with their files named jan.asp, feb.asp, mar.asp, apr.asp and so on to dec.asp? Would each file contain a table whose cells would be populated from a updated worksheet by an ASP routine such as the example in your reply?

I’ve found an error in that a semicolon is missing (margin:20px ). Putting it in clears the CSS error but the gallery shoots up the page to partly cover the banner. Fixing that is for tomorrow!

My sincere apologies – the line of code was incomplete and reads:

#container {position:absolute; /* relative;*/ width:770px; height:396px; margin:20px /*auto 0 auto;*/ top:20px; left:200px; border:1px solid #aaa; background:#fff url(../imagestoo/back.jpg) 75px 10px no-repeat;}

I have used the comments /* . . . */ to remind me of the original code as I had a great deal of difficulty in getting the gallery to display as expected.

My site? Impressive? You ain’t seen nutting – yet!

But thank you for the kind words; it’s nice for me to be told I’ve improved. Believe it or not the SGC site was started in FrontPage 97 and has survived FP98, FP2000 and now it is being made ready for the 21st century in FP2003. That’s endurance for you!

I’ve noted what you say about bookmarks and DW for future reference – thank you again for your assistance.

Malcolm

IMO – Pedancy is no bad thing when it comes to HTML and CSS.

I’m sure you know but for clarity the spaces you refer to are the result of how bookmarks are created in FrontPage. They are hyperlinks to a particular subheading on another page. The subheadings of the child page are listed as links on the mother page. If the spaces are deleted then on the child page Care of the Course would have to appear as CareoftheCourse; hardly an aid to ease of reading. As I am moving the site from FrontPage to Dreamweaver this problem will be eventually overcome.

Thank you for the suggestions you made – I will try them out as I get time in furthering the overhaul of the site.

Malcolm

Having run the MS Word 2002 install programme my spell checking has resumed its English (UK) behaviour.

I thank you all for your contributions.

Thank you for your suggestion and I agree that it is not a big deal. But it’s a source of curiosity to me as to why.

Anyway I had already tried your suggestion unfortunately without success.

Yes indeed DeanH suggested a Registry fix but you may have noted it was non specific. I have searched the Registry with keywords that seem appropriate so far without finding anything to account for my problem. If a fresh installation will fix the problem that is how I will go forward. As to being dominated – never!

Thank you for your input – as always very much appreciated.

Hans – Thank you for your suggestion. I have checked and Language is already set to English (UK).

I agree that your fear is correct.