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Q170543: FP97: Font Set in Font Options Dialog Box Not Used in Browser

Article: Q170543
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage kbdta
Last Modified: 26-SEP-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows 
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For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see Q194243.

SYMPTOMS
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In FrontPage Editor, if you select a proportional font in the Font Options
dialog box (Tools menu), the font will not be used by the Web browser.

CAUSE
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The font you select in the Font Options dialog box in FrontPage Editor is used
as the default display font in FrontPage Editor only. The font selections in the
Font Options dialog box are intended to be used with non-English language
character sets. Since this font is used as the display font in FrontPage Editor,
HTML font instructions are not written to the page. Therefore, when you open the
page in a Web browser, the browser substitutes its own default display font and
ignores the font choice you made in the Font Options dialog box.

RESOLUTION
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In FrontPage Editor, use either of the following methods to change the font.

Method 1: Apply Font Formatting to a Selection
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Use the following steps to apply font formatting to selected text:

1. Select the text you want to format.

2. On the Format menu, click Font.

Method 2: Set the Font Option before You Type Your Text
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Before you type your text, click Font Options on the Tools menu and select the
proportional font you want to use.

NOTE: By selecting a proportional font, you are simply changing the default
display font used in FrontPage Editor.

MORE INFORMATION
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FrontPage allows you to author Webs in multiple languages by setting fonts in
the Font Options dialog box. In order to display languages that do not use the
Roman alphabet, you can create a correspondence between a language code page and
a default display font. This allows you to read the files using that code page.
Only FrontPage Editor uses this correspondence. The Web browser will reference
the required code page and default display font installed on the international
site.

The default proportional font for the ISO-8859-1 (Roman alphabet) character set
is Times New Roman. Therefore, selecting the Times New Roman font in the Font
Options dialog box is redundant, and it overrides the Web browser's ability to
specify the default font in a specific language.

Additional query words: 97

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Keywords          : kbusage kbdta 
Technology        : kbFrontPageSearch kbFrontPage97 kbZNotKeyword2 kbFrontPage97Search
Version           : :
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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