Sunday, November 29, 2009

Edit Microsoft Publisher links?

I am using Microsoft Publisher. I have been playing with the pre-made templates. I figured out how to change the page names to something different other than "contact us", "services", etc., but I can't figure out how to change the link at the bottom of the page. Is there a way to access the hard coding, or do I need to do something different?



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To expand a bit on DianeD's answer as to why Publisher is the wrong program... (sorry if it doesn't answer your question directly)



Publisher is a page layout program (for print) that offers a way to export the files as html. It does a lot of non-standard "tricks" behind the scenes to maintain the look of the page rather than use good web design practice. This is OK I guess, if you are making a web edition of a printed newsletter for example (although I would rather make a PDF), but often makes for a bad web page.



I am webmaster for my club, and have to deal with pages that members make in Publisher. One "trick" that is especially onerous is that Pub likes to take text boxes you have made and convert them to GIFs (a picture of the text). Presumably, it does this to preserve the exact appearance, but you end up with a web page that loads really slow, text that is not searchable or resizable, and a lot of links that don't work.



There is also a ton of junk code in Pub's html output. This contributes to the slow loading of the pages, and confuses a lot of browsers.



If you are just starting with web design, you will not learn good practices when the program makes all the decisions for you, and you will eventually become frustrated with the result.



You will be better served by using a program specifically made for web design.



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peace



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If you're creating a website, then you've chosen the wrong program to do it in.



However, to answer your question, just highlight the text at the bottom, or retype what you want to use as the link text, then go to the menu at the top and choose INSERT %26gt;%26gt; HYPERLINK and then type in the http://www.websitename.com/ that you want it to be linked to.



Hope this answers your question.



DianeD

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