Users familiar with Microsoft Office will feel accustomed to the editor's operation and menu structure right away. The new Editor sports a ton of improved features and supports the latest browser tricks, such as blinking and marquee text, bullet and numbering styles, table border colors, page margins, and font selections. As in Microsoft Word 97, when you type a Web address into your page, it's automatically converted into a hyperlink. You can drag and drop URLs and other hyperlinks directly from your Web browser into FrontPage. You can also import graphics and multimedia files from Windows Explorer and a selected range from an Excel spreadsheet, which FrontPage turns into a table.
Editor does, however, have a few limitations.
When using Editor, you can't drop a table onto the page in an arbitrary spot as you can with some other Web authoring programs such as NetObjects Fusion. The table can be inserted only in the linear flow of HTML tags, just as you would do in a word processor. Like the initial implementation of tables in Microsoft Word, tables can only be formatted and modified via dialog boxes, not directly manipulated. The page designer still has to deal with pesky table attributes such as cell spacing, cell padding, and cell spans. I found it much better than Netscape Gold 3.0, HotMeTaL Pro, and Hot Dog Pro in terms of ease of use and integrated functions.