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FrontPage Marquees will not scroll in Netscape

Creating a scrolling marquee in FrontPage is as easy as clicking a few buttons, typing a little text, and pushing OK! The biggest decisions you are going to have to make is how to say as much as you want to say in just a few words.

Let's start by clicking the Insert Component Icon. Also available from the Menu Bar - Insert - Component - Marquee.

From the fly-out choose Marquee. A dialog box will appear. (Click to view it full size.)

The easiest way to control the placement of your marquee is to put it in a table. (The positions of almost any page element can be controlled most effectively in tables.)

Above you will see just a single celled table. We'll put our Marquee in it.

Our Favorite Marquee

The Marquee above was created just by placing the cursor in the center of the table, clicking to bring the Marquee dialog box open as described above, and the text typed into the text box. Then I clicked OK. It is the simplest of marquees.

Let's explore some of the things we can do to create a marquee that will stand out among marquees! Let's get fun and get bold and garish!

OK...We'll start with our table to control position.

Making Your Marquee Stand Out

Click to open the dialog box.
Type in the text.	My Favorite Marquee
Take a look at the next row of choices. Direction - Let's stick with Left (English reads left to right). Speed - Again, let's stick with the default; it goes across the window at a nice readable speed.
Behavior - Let's make it Alternate. Slide is particularly useful when you want a row of text to slide into the page and stop. Scroll will produce the effect you saw in the marquee above. Align with text - We'll put it in the middle. If you do not put your marquee in a table, it will line itself with the text on the page. You will lose control of positioning, no matter what you put here.
My Favorite Marquee

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