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FrontPage - Inserting pictures


Inserting pictures previously made, or from clipart, is very easy with FrontPage.  

The only pictures which can be shown on a web page on the World Wide Web are those with the extension GIF or JPG.  A picture made with the programme Paint has the extension BMP, but with FrontPage your problems disappear.  Clipart usually has the extension WMF, but with FrontPage your problems disappear.  There are many different extensions to graphic files, but with FrontPage the problems disappear.  Those problems only disappear if you create your web pages within a web.  

Follow the instructions below and all pictures inserted will be converted to graphics with GIF or JPG extensions suitable for the World Wide Web.

It is assumed that you are working in a web when inserting pictures.  You should have created a new web into which to put your all your web pages.

To insert a graphic

To insert a picture click Insert on the menu bar, then Picture, then From File.  You can easily add a picture from ClipArt in a similar way.

Click on the Select a file on your computer icon in the bottom corner.


Change folders and directories until you find the required picture.

Click OK and the picture will appear on your web page.

The page and picture need to be saved. Click on the Save icon on the menu bar.

The picture is embedded in your web and a copy of the picture is made in your web. The picture is saved in your web.

Your picture should go into the Image folder. Click on Change Folder.  It is when you save your picture in the web that FrontPage solves problems.  FrontPage converts your image whatever its extension into GIF or JPG if it is in a web.

Click on the Images folder. Click on OK.

The Images folder opens. Click OK.

Now save the picture in the Images folder. Click OK.

Your picture should now be in the Images folder. If you cannot see it click on the + next to Images in the Folder List

The graphic file is in the Images folder:  It had the correct extension of JPG to begin with.  Even if it had had a different extension it would now have a JPG or GIF extension.

You do not have to save pictures in the images folder but it does make your web much clearer and easier to work with. 

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