RTF converstion, newpage1.htm?

[MikeL Beck]

I have a bunch of pages that have an extension of .tpl and I have
configured FrontPage 2002 to be the default editor for these files.

I used to be able to double-click on these files and they would open
properly. In the last two weeks or so, when I double-click on one of
these files FrontPage runs the RTF converter and opens the page as a
new page, called "newpage1.htm". Also, all of the formatting is lost,
and the HTML is screwed up. For instance, "<" is changed to "&lt".

If I right-click on the file and open it with Notepad, it's fine.

I can't figure out what caused this to happen. I even tried
un-installing FrontPage and re-installing it, but that didn't make a
difference.

How do I stop this from happening?

 

[Steve Easton]

In Windows Explorer right click a file with the tpl
extension, select Open With and then select "Choose program."
In the list that opens, select the program you want as the default
and then check the "Always use this program...." box.

hth

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[MikeL Beck]

In Windows Explorer right click a file with the tpl
extension, select Open With and then select "Choose program."
In the list that opens, select the program you want as the default
and then check the "Always use this program...." box.

Ok, that kind of helped.

If I double-click on a .tpl file from Explorer, it starts up FrontPage
and asks me how I want to open it (HTML, RTF, etc).

If I double-click on a .tpl file IN FrontPage that I have not opened
with FrontPage before, it will open it as HTML in FrontPage.

If I double-click on a .tpl file in FrontPage that I HAVE opened with
FrontPage before, it still runs the RTF converter and opens it as
"newpage1.htm" with garbled HTML.

So it would seem that I'm half-way there... How do I go about fixing
the rest of it?

 

[MikeL Beck]

In Windows Explorer right click a file with the tpl
extension, select Open With and then select "Choose program."
In the list that opens, select the program you want as the default
and then check the "Always use this program...." box.

And it gets stranger...

I just un-installed Microsoft ActiveSync 3.7, and FrontPage started
working properly. Why is this?

I need to have ActiveSync installed, so once I re-install it,
FrontPage will be broken again.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

In FP you need to configure your editor (Tools Options Configure Editors and add it) for .tpl to open w/ notepad or something other
than FP




| > In Windows Explorer right click a file with the tpl
| > extension, select Open With and then select "Choose program."
| > In the list that opens, select the program you want as the default
| > and then check the "Always use this program...." box.
|
| And it gets stranger...
|
| I just un-installed Microsoft ActiveSync 3.7, and FrontPage started
| working properly. Why is this?
|
| I need to have ActiveSync installed, so once I re-install it,
| FrontPage will be broken again.

 

[MikeL Beck]

In FP you need to configure your editor (Tools Options Configure Editors and add it) for .tpl to open w/ notepad or something other
than FP

Why? I want to be able to open it with FrontPage.

It works as long as I don't have ActiveSync installed.

What I'd like to know now is _why_ does it work without ActiveSync installed?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

1) FP is for editing pages containing html type coding
(if expects certain file content)
2) A .tpl file appears to be an Access registered file (somehow associated w/ your Active Sync)
See http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=TPL

If you want to edit .tpl files in FP w/o FP interfering configure the FP editor for the application that created them

If it is some sort of template that you have created (w/ html type content) then you need to find the association in Active Sync and
remove or change it




| > In FP you need to configure your editor (Tools Options Configure Editors and add it) for .tpl to open w/ notepad or something
other
| > than FP
|
| Why? I want to be able to open it with FrontPage.
|
| It works as long as I don't have ActiveSync installed.
|
| What I'd like to know now is _why_ does it work without ActiveSync installed?