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Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:38:30 -0500
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        Could someone help with this?

(Please don't respond to me.)

Thanks,

Peter Altschul
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>From: "Ray and Karyn Campbell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@concentric.net;;;;;>
>Subject: Web Help Needed
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:52:23 -0600
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>+== acb-l Message from "Ray and Karyn Campbell" <[log in to unmask]> ==+
>All:
>
>I need some help with getting something onto a web page.
>
>I'm trying to get the Illinois Council of the Blind's Quartly newsletter,
>"The Illinois Braille Messenger" up onto the web.  What I was given is a
>large file that was saved into html from MS Word 97.  What I want to do is
>take the existing table of contents located at the top of this file which
>has various titles in it and turn those titles into links to the applicable
>sections of the file so that a user reading the publication can jump
>directly to whatever he or she wants to read.
>
>I have tried using both Frontpage Express and Microsoft Word Web Authoring
>tools to do this.  Also at the end of each article in the publication, I
>want to have a link returning the user to the table of contents.
>
>I have several questions:
>1.  Which do you feel is better for what I am trying to do, Frontpage
>Express, MS Word Web Authoring Tools, or is there something else?  For right
>now, I will be using Web Authoring tools.  Keep this in mind for the
>remainder of my questions.
>2.  How do I make each entry in the table of contents into a link?
>Specifically, how do I put in a location in the file that I want to jump to
>and use a more descriptive name in the table of contents?  For example, one
>of the links I have I want to say "FROM THE EDITOR" to a person browsing the
>page.  What do I have to do to make my link to say "%FROM_THE_EDITOR" and
>have the "FROM THE EDITOR" appear on screen without the "#" sign And "_"
>characters?
>3.  What word command(s) do I use to put a name to a file location?  For
>example, at the place where the "FROM THE EDITOR" article starts, I need to
>put an anchor in so the browser knows where the user wants to jump to if
>that link is clicked?
>4.  Perhaps it would be better to use two frames for this application, with
>the left frame being the table of contents and the right frame being the
>display area for whatever article the user clicks on.  How do I set up
>frames with Web Authoring tools?
>5.  If I cannot do this with web authoring tools, what tools work best with
>Window-Eyes?  Frontpage Express does not seem to be very accessible in
>Window-eyes and I'm contact GW Micro about this.  Is there something better,
>though?
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.  I will be anxious to see your answers
>as I dig deeper and deeper into the worl of web mastering.
>
>
>Ray Campbell
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>
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