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Adding Spaces to Link Bar Buttons

Link bars provide powerful ways to link to pages both on and off your site. With FrontPage 2003, you can use the buttons from any of the Themes installed on your system whenever you want to customize link bars in your Windows SharePoint Services-based site. 

Occasionally, your Web site design will require you to left-justify text on a button.  However, when your button includes a border or other design element on its left edge, you will find that the text can be too far over to the left as shown here:

Text left-justified on buttons overlaps the design

First, open the Web site created with FrontPage or based on Windows SharePoint Services that contains the link bar you want to work on using FrontPage 2003 and do the following:
  1. In Folder List view, Double-click on a page that contains the link bar you want to work on. This opens it for editing in Page view.
  2. Click View, then Navigation to switch to Navigation view, click on the link bar you want to work on.


     
  3. Right-click on the first page in the link bar, select Rename, and press the Home button on your keyboard to position your cursor at the beginning of the text. 
  4. On your keyboard, press and hold the ALT key and then type 0160 to insert a space in front of the page title. Insert multiple spaces by typing ALT+0160 for each additonal space you want to add.
  5. Repeat steps 4 through 6 for the rest of the pages in your link bar.
  6. Click View, then Page to switch to Page View.  You should now see spaces inserted so that the text is still left-justified, but not all the way to the left. 

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