Troubleshoot text in Web page preview

My text font is incorrect.

Some Web browsers can display only one text font at a time. If you’re using more than one font in your Web page and your browser can only display one font, all of your text will appear in the font that your browser is set to display.

You can't guarantee how your text will look for people reading your Web site. They might be using a browser that supports only one font; they might not have the necessary fonts installed on their computer; or they might be using a different operating system.

A good rule of thumb is to use the following TrueType fonts, which many of your readers will have installed on their computer:

• Arial (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
• Arial Black
• Comic Sans MS (including Bold)
• Courier New (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
• Georgia (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
• Impact
• Symbol
• Times New Roman (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
• Trebuchet MS (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
• Verdana (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
• Wingdings

My text size is incorrect.

When you preview or publish your Web site, your text is converted to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). There are only seven HTML font sizes (the minimum being 8 point), so text is converted to the closest HTML font size. As a result, some of your text sizes might change when you preview or publish your Web site.

My double-underlined text appears with a single underline.

Double-underlined text will appear as single-underlined text when you preview or publish your Web site.

When you preview or publish your Web site, text is converted to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML doesn't support double underlining.

Because double underlines won't appear when you publish to the Web, you should either remove them or replace them with single underlines.

1. Select the text.
2. Right-click the highlighted text, point to Change Text, and then click Font.
3. Under General, in the Underline box, do one of the following:
   • Click (none) if you want no underline.  
   • Under General, in the Underline box, click Single if you want a single underline.
4. Click OK.

My hyphenations don't appear.

If you’re using automatic hyphenation in your Web page text, the hyphens won't appear when you preview or publish your Web site.

When you preview or publish your Web site, text is converted to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML doesn't support automatic hyphenation.

Since they won’t appear in your Web site, you should remove automatic hyphens.

To remove automatic hyphens

1. Click the text frame that you want to remove automatic hyphens from.
2. On the Tools menu, click Hyphenate.
3. Click OK.

   If the text frame you select is connected to other text frames, the text in all the connected frames will lose automatic hyphenation as well.

My font effects don't appear.

You can use the following font effects for your Web site: subscript, superscript, and all capitals.

HTML currently cannot display the following font effects on the Web:

• Shadowing
• Outlining
• Embossing
• Engraving
• Small capitals

My bullets are incorrect.

Bullets (including special characters used as bullets) are converted to small black dots when you preview or publish your Web site.

When you preview or publish your Web site, bullets are converted to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML doesn't support Microsoft Publisher's bullet characters.

To get a good idea of what your Web page will actually look like when you publish to the Web, go to the Insert menu and click Symbol to place small black dots for bullets.

Instead of using Publishe'’s bullets (which are converted to text when you publish to the Web), you may want to use small graphics for bullets. Using graphical bullets allows more flexibility for your Web site design.