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Web Sites With Publisher |
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A.Webster Feb 2005 |
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Websters on the Web |
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Adding buttons The navigation bar to the left uses the Publisher navigation bar object. What about the windows style buttons within the text? In fact it couldn't be simpler. I have used the forms menu bar within Excel to create an appropriately named button, then copied and pasted it across to publisher. The final job is to right click the button to create a hyperlink to the required page or file. You can get more control over the appearance of your buttons by using the Visual Basic toolbar in any Microsoft VBA compliant application. The VB toolbar lets you open the VB Toolbox. The toolbox contains a command button component and properties dialog that you can use to set thinks like button colours etc. allowing colour coded buttons with different functions. Note that you may need to use Paste Special to paste these buttons into publisher as images. Excel is good as you can use the grid to size the buttons. It is a good idea to save the worksheet with the buttons on in case you want to re-use them later. |
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Other techniques for buttons An alternative technique for buttons is to use javascript. This is a good entry route into a method that allows many other extensions to be added to the built in features of publisher. On the other hand the point of using publisher for your web site is to make things simple. Click the button if you are interested. |