Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • What This Book Does for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Part I. Working with Office 2003
  • Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
  • Part II. Processing with Word 2003
  • Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
  • Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
  • Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
  • Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
  • Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
  • Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
  • Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
  • Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
  • Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
  • Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
  • Part IV. Presenting with Flair
  • Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
  • Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
  • Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
  • Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
  • Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
  • Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
  • Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
  • Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
  • Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
  • Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
  • Part IX. Appendixes
  • Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
  • Part X. Bonus Hours
  • Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
    • Introduction to FrontPage 2003
    • Working with FrontPage 2003
    • To Do: Create Your First Web Page
    • Adding a Title to Your Web Page
    • Web Pages Can Hold Many Kinds of Elements
    • To Do: Finish Your First Simple Web Page
    • Different Views
    • Adding a Background
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

To Do: Finish Your First Simple Web Page

The rest of this chapter takes you a little further in using FrontPage by adding some text and graphics to your Web page. Although the next Web chapter continues building your FrontPage skills, no advanced material is presented. There is no way to make you a Web-page master in 2 hours, even with a tool as powerful as FrontPage 2003, but you can get insight into what Web-page creation by working through examples, even simple ones.

Follow these steps to add more material to the Web page you created earlier:

1. To see how many of FrontPage's menus and toolbars work like those of the other Office products, type the following text in the Web page you're creating and then click the Bold toolbar button: The more books you read, the taller you grow!
2. Select the entire sentence you just typed and click the Center toolbar button and then the Bold button to center and format the text.
3. Select the text (if you don't still have it selected) and increase the font size by dropping the Font Size list and selecting 6 (24 pt). Click anywhere on the page to remove the selection from the text. Your screen should look like the one in Figure Web 1.6.
   

   Figure web 1.6 FrontPage's formatting tools work similar to the other Office products you know.

   NOTE

   Web pages don't allow as many font-size choices as Word documents and Excel worksheets. You're limited to 7 sizes, as the Font Size toolbar drop-down list shows. The actual sizes might change from computer to computer when viewed in a Web browser because they are based on the target Web browser's default font size.

4. Insert a horizontal line below the heading. To do this, click at the end of the heading's exclamation point to anchor the text cursor there and press Enter to move the cursor to the next line. Select Insert, Horizontal Line. FrontPage places a horizontal line below the heading.
5. Why not place a picture on the page? You can use the Office clip-art collection to get the art. Select Insert, Picture, Clip Art. In the Search for text box, type books and click Go. Several images will appear. Scroll down until you get to one you like. If you see the Mother Goose character reading, select her by clicking on her picture. Otherwise, pick a different one. When you select the picture, it appears in the center of the Web page.
6. Leaving the text cursor to the right of the centered picture, type the following text (don't worry about the length or how the text looks): Reading is a lifelong pursuit because learning is a lifelong pursuit. Neither should end when you finish school. As you type, the picture moves around to adjust itself.
7. Select all the text but not the figure.
8. Change the text size by selecting 6 (24 pt) from the toolbar.
9. Click the Left Align toolbar button.
10. Right-click over the picture and select Picture Properties. Click the large Left button (one of three buttons toward the top of the dialog box with the icon), and you'll see the text adjust to the picture and look more planned than before, as Figure Web 1.7 shows. You've just instructed FrontPage to place the picture to the left of the text instead of trying to take a position on the same line as the first line of the text. Your font might or might not look smoother than that in Figure Web 1.7, depending on your FrontPage default font setting.

Figure web 1.7 Your first Web page is looking better.

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