You can format text and paragraphs in Microsoft FrontPage as you would using a word processor — to add visual organization, emphasis, and structure. You can change the font, size, style, color, spacing, and vertical position of text, and add effects such as underlining. You can also control spacing and indentation, add bullets and numbers, and set alignment.
The formatting you apply can either affect selected words or an entire paragraph. A general rule is that font properties (such as font, size, color, highlighting, and effects) can be applied to selected text, and paragraph properties (including bullets, numbering, shading, and borders) affect entire paragraphs. For example, you can italicize a single word in a paragraph, but if you try to align the word to the right, the entire paragraph will be aligned.
Formatting individual
characters and words
Properties that you can set for words or characters include:
Increasing or decreasing the space between characters to expand or condense your text.
This is an example of expanded text.This is an example of condensed text.
Raising or lowering text; for example, to indicate a footnote. You can also specify the number of points to raise or lower text. For example:
There is a RAISED letter in this sentence.
There is a LOWERED letter in this sentence.
Formatting paragraphs
A paragraph is a block of text that is separated from another by a paragraph mark
. If lines of
text are separated by line breaks
, the text is considered to be one paragraph.
The paragraph mark
and the line break
are hidden characters that can
be
displayed if needed.
Properties that you can set that will apply to entire paragraphs include:
Borders around text. You can then set properties, such as the style, color, padding, and width of the border.
For example, the style of the border around this paragraph is double, and the color blue.
If you apply a border to a selected word, the border is applied to the whole paragraph.
You have the option to create a regular four-sided border or a custom border. A custom border can have borders on particular sides, and each side can have a different style, color and width.
Applying shading to an entire line or paragraph. Shading, like background color, can be a color or a picture. When you add shading, it is applied to an entire paragraph. For example, if you apply shading to a selected word, the entire paragraph will be shaded.
Note Text separated by line breaks rather than paragraph marks is considered to be one paragraph
Bulleted, numbered,
definition, and multilevel
lists
You can quickly add bullets or numbers to existing lines of text, or you can automatically create bulleted and numbered lists as you type. If you're creating bulleted lists for web pages, you can use any graphical image or picture as a bullet.
Bulleted list
You can create a bulleted list for presenting a list of unordered items — that is, items that don't need to be numbered:
Custom bulleted list
You canalso create graphics and use them as bullets, rather than using the standard default bullets (circles or squares).
Numbered list
To display a sequential list of items, create a numbered list. You can choose from letters, numbers, or Roman numerals:
Definition list
When you want to present a list of terms and definitions, add a definition list to your page. Terms are usually displayed flush left, with indented definitions. The exact formatting of the list depends on the Web browser being used.
Outline or multilevel list
You can create lists that have multiple nested levels and paragraphs, and specify different list styles for each level. For example, an outline:
Paragraph
The list above uses different numbering styles at each level. If a heading has only one item below it, you can list the item without numbers (note the way "Paragraph" is displayed above).
Collapsible listsYou can create a collapsible list from a multilevel bulleted or numbered list, or from an outline. A collapsible list lets the site visitor show or hide different levels of the list by double-clicking an item.
The following is an example of list is an example of a multilevel outline list, with each level using a different style. This list is also collapsible:
Styles and themes
A style is a collection of character and paragraph settings. Applying a style to text is a one-step procedure and a much quicker way to format text than by formatting each paragraph of text individually. Your text is also more consistently formatted by using styles.
For example, to make the main headings stand out from other text, apply the style Heading 1, and leave body text styled as Normal (the default), which uses a smaller font. You can still apply additional formatting to text that has a style applied to it, for example to underline a word. You can create and modify styles, and create your own external style sheets, such as a cascading style sheet.
You can also use themes to format your text automatically, because each theme contains predefined styles. If you want to change the appearance of text that has a theme applied to it, you can either modify the styles used by the theme or apply formatting to selected text.