pageoneresults - 6:42 pm on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

Ctrl + Shift + * - The Show All Command

Something I should have mentioned in the very beginning.

Open FrontPage right now. In your Standard toolbar at the top, you have a ¶ symbol. Click that or just press Ctrl + Shift + * to Show All. I work in Show All mode 99% of the time. Without it, I'm lost as to what is what on the page. With Show All selected, you now see all of your block level elements (¶). You can also see <br> which is represented as a left arrow. In addition to that, you now have dotted guidelines for separation of containing elements such as <div>s or <table>s.

When you press the Enter Key in FrontPage, you are creating a new block level element (¶). For example, if you were typing within a <p> element and pressed Enter, you are going to create a new <p> element. It would look like this in html view...

<p>This is your first paragraph.</p>
<p>This is your second paragraph created by the [b]Enter[/b] command.</p>

In traditional document layout, this is referred to as a Hard Return.

If you were typing within an <li> element and pressed enter, you are going to create a new <li> element.

<ul>
<li>List Item 1</li>
<li>List Item 2</li>
</ul>

If you were typing within a <p> element and pressed Shift + Enter, you will create a <br> or line break within your <p> element (shows as a left arrow in FrontPage and most other document editing programs).

<p>This is your paragraph.<br>
Here is the second line created by the [b]Shift + Enter[/b] command.</p>

In traditional document layout, this is referred to as a Soft Return.

If you were typing within an <li> element and pressed Shift + Enter, you will create a <br> within your <li>. It would look like this in html view...

<ul>
<li>List Item<br>
Here is the second line created by the [b]Shift + Enter[/b] command.</li>
</ul>

Now, to take the above one step further, you can press Ctrl + / which is the Reveal Tags command. This will show you all of your beginning and ending tags. I'll get into this feature a little bit later in the topic. But for now, keep the Show All selected for this series of tips.