MS Publisher - Upgrade?

[orchided]

For David: I have been using Publisher for several years, and now am using
Publisher 2000. I find myself, more and more, wishing to add scripts to my
site; however, even though I go to Source, and view the html in Notebook,
and make a change by inserting java script, and then save the changes, I do
not see those changes when I look at the website page that I changed. I am
beginning to think that I should upgrade from version 2000 to version 2002
or is there a version 2003. If I do so, will I then be able to make changes
on a particular page and have the the script appear on the changed page?
Sorry for such a disoriented question, but hopefully you know what I am
asking.

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

For David: I have been using Publisher for several years, and now am
using

Publisher 2000. I find myself, more and more, wishing to add scripts to my
site;

Publisher has no support for scripting. Best you can do is insert an HTML
frag on the page and enter the script in that. It will be writing the script
in the body tag and the head tag is not accessable but most scripts will run
ok.



however, even though I go to Source, and view the html in Notebook,

and make a change by inserting java script,

I recommend against modifying the html like this. Use the html fragment
dialog for custom code.



and then save the changes, I do

not see those changes when I look at the website page that I changed.

are you opening the html file in Notepad and saving it in Notepad?
are you opening the web page in the browser or looking at the pub file page?
if you are looking at the page in the browser did you refresh the page so
you aren't viewing a cached page?
is the script code correct? coding errors will prevent the script from
running.





I am

beginning to think that I should upgrade from version 2000 to version 2002
or is there a version 2003. If I do so, will I then be able to make changes
on a particular page and have the the script appear on the changed page?
Sorry for such a disoriented question, but hopefully you know what I am
asking.

As far as script support and html editing and the fragment dialog there is
no difference between the versions.

You can visit my site to learn find what changed in 2002 and what is changed
in 2003.

 

[orchided]

Thanks David. Since I also have MS FrontPage, could I edit one a page on my
website (created with MS Publisher) using MS FrontPage, and save it to the
folder wherein that page html is, and have it accept it? (If this makes
sense!)

Ed