And now for something completely different! Since the hotfix title is more o
f
a plea than a solution advisory. Sorry!

Recommend that any template file not created by the WSS server is manually
recreated in the appropriate folder where the template is to be applied to
the file (s). The "save as" method is also recommended. A simple "copy" in
WSS can produce unexpected results such as loss of table dimensions,
bookmarks, link corruption, and etc. This loss may be explained by the fact
that this template file is a user creation and NOT a SharePoint file created
by the server and this in turn suggests that the FrontPage product may need
some very minor tweaking in an upcoming security update. The most prevalent
loss (almost always occurs) is loss of table dimensions. An anchor table wit
h
width set to 100% (collapsed "0" table borders) typically is changed to an
exact pixel width that is equal exactly to the workspace width in the
FrontPage editor's Design view. This is a royal pain if one's anchors are
buried layers deep in a complex page layout.

And there is an integrated idea for a future FrontPage version: a right or
left border (Design/Code view window) active table layer tab bar. Click on
any table and the table layer tab bar appears on the edge of the workspace.
Click and hold the mouse down on a layer tab to drag it up to the top layer
or down to the bottom on the layer tab bar. Or simply click on the tab to
bring that layer into focus! Drag a standard table tab and it automatically
becomes a FrontPage Layout layer. There should also be a toggle button on th
e
layer tabs tool bar that switches the table layer between Layout layer and
standard layer. Changing standard to Layout should occur WITHOUT A CHAOTIC
ZAPPING OF THE TABLE ""SLAM"" INTO THE LEFT BORDER!. Changing Layout to
standard should occur WITHOUT CHAOTIC SHIFTING OF THE ENTIRE LAYER WITH
CONTENTS BACK INTO THE ORIGINAL STANDARD POSITION - unless, of course,
physics demand it! Well, it shouldn't take designers long to figure out that
layers need to be placed in a certain way if switching from Layout to
standard view. A scroller would be required on the Layer tab bar for complex
files like the WSS library templates.

The Layer Tab Bar would work great beside a DWT toggle to turn dwt's on/off
for a selection. Turning off DWT with the toggle should occur WITHOUT SLAM
DUNKING EVERY DWT LINKED PAGE. And that DWT toggle would be better if there
was a popup DWT selector window with two panes (left for text description,
right for preview of a left pane DWT selection - Of course the DWT Selector
Window shows all dwt's on a site with a scroll bar to help out if the list i
s
longer than what can fit in the selector window. Microsoft has to get Layout
and DWT stable enough to tool it WYSIWYG style! I am sure there are many
issues like loss of table dimension cited above. For now this feels like a
complete version job with core (secret and patent) tie-ins.

Third party software cannot cut deeply enough into the product to effect
these enhancements so waiting out Microsoft is the only option.
Who says the universe is such a small place? Go for it People!


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