SEARCHING A WEB PAGE FOR KEY WORDS

[Stuart]

Part of my site has a history page displayed in a table showing events in
date order - each section of the table can be 1, 2 or 3 paragraphs long -
needless to say its getting quite large - therefore to save looking all
through for a particular event is it possible to provide a search box
providing key words (which I can add to) and then linking them direct to that
word or words in the table?
Thanks.
Stuart...

 

[DavidF]

I doubt it. In most cases if you use a table in a Publisher web publication
it is converted to an image when you Publish to the Web....convert it to
html. Do a web page preview, and try to select any of the text in the table.
If you cannot, then it is an image. You can't search for a word that has
been converted to an image, nor will the words in your table be indexed by
Google or the other search engines.

You could use bookmarks and anchors to take the viewer to a particular place
on a page even with the table. Kind of depends on how many key words or
subjects you have, and the version of Publisher you are using. Or perhaps do
away with the tables and organize your material in text boxes. Then you
could use a variety of site search methods including google.

DavidF