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Prep Your Web Page for Attaching a DWT

FrontPage 2003

Follow these instructions if your web site pages do NOT already use DWTs. If your web site pages already have DWTs attached, you may skip these instructions and simply Attach DWTs.

  1. Open your web site in FrontPage. Open one of the pages.
  2. Open one of the pages (in this example, the home page). Highlight the content area -- that is, anything that is NOT part of the underlying design. Right-click and choose "Copy."
     

    In this example, it was easiest to copy the content table (we will merge the tables later). We left the top bar, left column, and bottom border alone.

  3. Hit Ctrl-A to select everything on the page, then hit Backspace to delete everything. Hit Ctrl-V to paste the content into the page.
     
    Ctrl-A
    Backspace
    Ctrl-V

  4. If your content includes tables, follow these steps to get rid of the tables. Click inside a table, then go to Table > Convert > Table to Text. If you have additional sub-tables for layout, repeat the steps until you have no more tables. Your page should now be completely "stripped," with only content on the page. Please note that if you have "content tables" -- info boxes, form tables, etc., you should not convert them into text.
     

  5. At this point, your web page is prepped! Follow these steps for all the other pages in your web site.
  6. You may now attach the DWT to your pages.

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