Exercise 8 – Software skills You can type your site content directly onto the page, or you can import or copy text from other documents. Once you enter the text, you use formatting to ensure that your test is both easy to read and attractive. Be certain to use the spelling checker and find and replace features to make sure your text is correct and accurate.

Exercise 8 – Terms Font – A specific design of type (also referred to as a typeface). Font combination – Also referred to as a font family, a collection of fonts that can be applied to text on a Web page. The browser will display the first font listed in the collection, and if the user’s system doesn’t have that particular font, the second font is substituted, and so on.

Font style – A format applied to a font to change its appearance, such as bold or italic. Points – A common measurement used for fonts. There are 72 points in one inch. Sans-serif – A type of font in which strokes do not appear at the end of the characters.

Serif – A kind if font in which strokes appear at the end of the characters. Typeface – A specific family of type that includes alphabetic characters, numerals, and punctuation marks.

Insert Text from Office Documents Although you can type all the text you need for your Web site’s pages, you have another option for adding text to pages. You can insert text from Microsoft Office Word or Excel. The method you use to insert the text depends on the format in which the document is saved.

Importing or Copying Text The easiest way to insert text in a Dreamweaver page is to use File>Import>Word or Excel Document This command displays the Import Word Document or Import Excel Document dialog box, where you navigate to the location of the Word or Excel document you want to insert. Read page 43 for more details.

Create a Link to an Office Document Another method of inserting Office information into a Dreamweaver page is to drag the file itself from an application such as Windows Explorer or Dreamweaver Files panel onto the Dreamweaver page. The Insert Document dialog box gives you two ways to add the file to your page. Read Page 44 for more details

Opening Office HTML Files All Microsoft Office applications include the capability to save documents in HTML format. Word HTML pages may contain coding that is not necessary in Dreamweaver, making the files larger that necessary. To strip out unnecessary codes, use Commands>Clean Up Word HTML menu command. Read Page 44 – 45 for more details.

Modify Font Formats Text you type in a Dreamweaver document is formatted with a default appearance, including the typeface, size, and color (black). Text that you drag and drop from an Office document onto your Dreamweaver page will retain the format it has in the Office document if Dreamweaver uses the same fonts. Read Pages 45 – 47 for more details

Insert Special Characters As you create your Web page text, you may need to use special characters such as em dashes (–), currency symbols (£), foreign language symbols (¿), and copyright symbols (©). Common special characters are listed on the drop-down menu that appears when you click the Characters button in the Text list of the Insert panel. Read Page 47 for more details.

Check Spelling After you type a paragraph or a small section of text on your Web page, check your spelling. Use the Commands>Check Spelling command to launch the spelling checker. You can quickly check spelling of a specific word or phrase by highlighting the text you want to check and pressing Shift+7. Read Page 48 for more details.

Find and Replace Text Choose Edit>Find and Replace to locate and change text and tags on the current page or throughout your site. Read Page 48 for more details.

Save Edits Remember to save your work regularly as you enter and format text. This guards against computer or power failures, and just might save you from losing hours of work. Read Page 49 for more details. Read Procedures on Pages 49 – 50 for how to do these actions.

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