FP keeps losing control of layout cell formatting (shadows etc.)

[CJSnet]

Hi, I have FrontPage 2003 and have been using Layout Cells. E.g. I will
wrap a table in a layout cell, then give it a drop shadow and rounded
corners. Great.

However, now and then FrontPage 'forgets' that it created these cells, and
loses all control over the formatting. When I click the cell border, it no
longer highlights the complete cell, and instead just selects one side of
the drop shadow as a picture. If I resize the table, it no longer resizes
the shadow images.

The only way round it is to delete all the shadows, borders, corners, and
their individual cells, and start again by wrapping the table in a layout
cell from square one.



Any ideas how I can get FP back to remembering it controls these layout
cells? I have some pretty complex ones it has now forgotten to let me
adjust.
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CJSnet

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[Steve Easton]

Go here: http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm and download a copy of
FP Cleaner.

Run the functions that:
Clear the FrontPage Temporary files.
Clear the Cache(*.web) files


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[CJSnet]

Hmm nice idea, thanks, but sadly this hasn't done it. Could it be something
in the code instead which has got eaten and stopped FP being able to
interactively alter the layout cell shadows any more?
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[CJSnet]

Could someone please help. This is really driving me mad!
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[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Someone will help if they see your post and have an answer. Please be
patient.

 

[Ronx]

Are you optimising the HTML? - this may remove the comments that
describe the layout table and cells.
A link to the published page may assist in finding problems.

 

[CJSnet]

Thanks Ron. I am not knowingly optimising the HTML. But it does seem that
from time to time the following tags are being removed by FP from a number
of pages all at once:

<!-- MSCellFormattingTableID="5" -->
<!-- MSCellFormattingType="header" -->
<!-- MSCellFormattingType="content" -->

I have managed to reinsert these manually to one table and FP suddenly
regained control of the layout cell, however I am really not sure how I
managed that and can't seem to repeat it.

I don't have anything online yet so sorry there's no URL, however the
difference simply is that before the problem it has those tags, and after
they are gone.
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[Ronx]

Change to Code View
Right Click anywhere and choose "Optimise HTML"
Clear all the check-boxes..

The offending check mark here would be "Layout Tables and Cell
Formatting comments", though almost every option in that dialogue may
cause some disruption at some time.

 

[CJSnet]

Oddly the Layout Tables one isn't checked. Any other ideas?
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[Ronx]

Sorry - none. I never use Layout Tables or cells, I found them more
trouble than they are worth.