The Printed Web Page ......
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Printing my page? What happens if someone wants to print some of this information? What do I, the page owner, webmaster (ha!) do to encourage that?
I found this snippet of info on a web design site. It said if you want your web page to be printable without scaling (uh-huh, whatever that is), it should be 520 pixels across. Hmm. Well. Pixels. Don't you love converting inches to pixels? And where in Front Page to you set your pixel width (formerly known as margins in word processing worlds).
The answer I came up with after poking around a page that looked great but dropped its line wrap in print preview is .. TABLES! Well that is the way most people control layouts and sizes on web sites.
So in Front Page I clicked the Table menu and then "Insert table'. When it asked how many columns and rows I wanted I said ONE column and two rows.
I got these little boxes called cells that looked like this:
Then I selected the offending text and clicked "cut". When I placed my cursor in the number one cell (as above) and pasted, my text was then contained. Next I right-clicked in the table and selected "Table Properties". Because I had a menu on the left 520 pixels was too much for cell width. Experimenting I found that 490 pixels created exactly the print preview that I wanted. Voila! Faith wins again! (My score of Faith vs machines is about 4 to 2389 .. and I'm NOT ahead! But I keep trying!! I also exaggerate.) My final step was to change my border color in cell properties to black .. so my table and text control is invisible.