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Entering Line Breaks and Horizontal Lines
If you ve browsed the Web, you ve probably seen pages with line breaks and horizontal lines. Line breaks enable you to break a line without adding a space between the lines. Horizontal lines are graphical lines drawn across the width of the page. When used effectively, line breaks and horizontal lines create necessary spacing in a page ”which helps make it easier to understand the text, and gives the reader s eyes a break.
Adding Spacing with Line Breaks
You can use a line break to format text in many ways. Line breaks can highlight text by creating a column or a simple list, which not only adds to the visual impact of the page, but also gets the reader's attention. Sometimes you don't want a space between lines of text, or you want to highlight an example by breaking the line and starting a new line showing the example.
To add a line break, press Shift+Enter. If you want to clear the left, right, or both margins after placing a picture or other element on the page, select Break from the Insert menu, choose the appropriate setting in the Break dialog box, and then click OK.
If you make a mistake and want to remove a line break, or change its properties, you can do this by following these steps:
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Click Show All on the Standard toolbar (hint: it looks like a paragraph mark). You should now see line breaks and paragraph marks.
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Double-click the line break you want to remove or change.
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Press Delete to remove the line break or press Alt+Enter to set the Break properties, using the dialog box shown in Figure 4-1 on the following page.
Figure 4-1: Line break properties control whether the left, right or both margins are cleared after the line break.
Adding Spacing with Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines also provide an easy way to organize, or visually break up the text of a page. Horizontal lines are entered as either shaded (default) or solid lines, and can be as wide as the browser window, a percentage of the browser window, or a specific size in pixels. The thickness of a horizontal rule is determined by its height, which is set in pixels.
To add a horizontal line to a page, choose Insert, Horizontal Line. Double-click the line to set its properties as shown in Figure 4-2. The properties of horizontal lines are as follows :
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Width Sets the length of the horizontal line in pixels, or as a percentage of the browser window.
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Height Sets the height (thickness) of the horizontal line in pixels.
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Alignment Aligns the horizontal line. Choose Left, Center or Right.
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Color Sets the color of the horizontal line. Choose Automatic to use the default color, or base the color on the current theme.
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Solid Line Specifies that the line is solid without shading.
Figure 4-2: Horizontal lines can be optimized for your pages using different width, height, alignment and color settings.
Organizing Your Ideas with Lists
Lists give order to your ideas, and can add to the visual impact of the page. With a list, you can get the reader s attention, give their eyes a break, and help clarify your main points. You probably are familiar with the two most commonly used types of lists: bulleted and numbered. FrontPage also adds another type of list: definition lists. You use definition lists to define a term , and then provide its definitions. We ll examine all three types of lists in this section.
Using Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Bulleted and numbered lists are the types of lists you ll use most often:
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Bulleted lists are best when you want to outline goals, objectives, or tasks with no specific order.
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Numbered lists are best when tasks must be performed in a particular order, or when you want to be very specific.
The easiest way to create a bulleted or numbered list is to use the Numbering or Bullets tool on the Format toolbar. Follow these steps:
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Position the cursor at the point you want to begin the list, and click either Numbering or Bullets tools on the Standard toolbar, as appropriate. If you click Numbering, a number 1 is inserted in the page. If you click Bullets, a bullet character is inserted.
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Create the list by typing an item and pressing Enter. FrontPage moves to the next line, and adds another bullet, or the next number, depending on the type of list you are working with.
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End the list by pressing Enter twice.
To change the way bullets or numbering are used, choose Format, Bullets And Numbering. This displays the List Properties dialog box shown in Figure 4-3 on the following page. You can then choose a different bullet or number style by clicking the tab you want and then clicking the style you like in the preview window. When you click OK, the new style is applied automatically.
Figure 4-3:
You can change the style of bullets and
numbers
using the List Properties dialog box.
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Use the Picture Bullets tab to define pictures to use as bullets. If the current web has a theme, you ll probably want to use pictures from the current theme. Otherwise, you can specify your own pictures to use. |
Using Definition Lists
You use definition lists to define a term, and then provide its definitions. Well, that s the official reason anyway. It doesn t mean that you must use definition lists that way. In fact, you can use definition lists anytime you want, to associate keywords, phrases, or sentences with concepts.
Items in definition lists contain two elements:
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Keyword, phrases or sentences you are defining, called the defined terms.
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Associated concepts, called definitions.
To create a definition list, follow these steps:
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Position the cursor at the point you want to begin the list, and choose Definition Term from the Formatting toolbar s Style pull-down list.
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Type the keyword or phrase you want to define. After you press Enter, you can enter a definition for the keyword or phrase. You can continue to add keywords and definitions to the list in this way, and FrontPage will alternate between the two styles for you automatically.
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End the list by pressing Enter twice.
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