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Working with Microsoft FrontPage Objects

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Microsoft® FrontPage® is a powerful and popular application used to create, deploy, and manage Web sites. You also can use FrontPage to create individual Web pages or modify existing Web pages.

FrontPage supports the Microsoft® Visual Basic® Editor and Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA). In addition, to make it possible for you to work with the various parts of a FrontPage-based web or a Web page, FrontPage now exposes a complete object model that you can use either from within a FrontPage VBA project or from another application through Automation. The new VBA language elements replace the FrontPage 98 language elements. To ensure backward compatibility, the FrontPage 98 language elements are included as hidden elements in the latest version of FrontPage object model, but these language elements are not recommended for use in FrontPage.

Note   You can use the Object Browser and Microsoft FrontPage Visual Basic Reference Help to learn more about individual objects, properties, methods, and events.

Although all Office applications support VBA, it is used a bit differently in FrontPage and Microsoft® Outlook® than it is in the other Office applications. FrontPage and Outlook support a single VBA project that is associated with a running instance of the application. The other Office applications make it possible for you to associate a VBA project with each Office document. For example, you can have several workbooks open in Excel at one time, and each workbook can have its own VBA project that contains modules, class modules, and UserForms. In FrontPage, you can have several webs or Web pages open at one time, but there is only one VBA project. The FrontPage VBA project is stored in a file named Microsoft FrontPage.fpm.

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