Publisher webpage preview shows page on the left-how to ce..

LorelC · External Since: Sep 01, 2009 Posts: 1

I'm making a webpage using publisher, but the Web page preview shows the
webpage aligned on the left. Most websites have the page centered, no matter
the monitor size. How do I get publisher to center the webpage in the browser?

Don Schmidt · External Since: Apr 21, 2007 Posts: 207

There are two solutions for this dependiing on which version of Publisher
you used to create the website. Publisher 2002 and previous; one soluttion
and Publisher 2003 and later, the second. I'm guessing you use the second
version. See below:

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Don
www.vanusa.org a Publisher 2000 website
Vancouver, USA

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A Donald Canned Response -

Thanks to "Spike" who has given us this:

The fix to center pages using publisher 2003 and 2007
Publish to your hard drive
Edit the htm file(s) and replace </head> with

</head><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"
width="760"align="center"><tr><td>
(All on one line)

If you are using a page width different than 760 pixels change that number
in the above line

If you have multiple pages you might want to look at ReplaceInFiles program,
available at,
<http://www.emurasoft.com/replall/> a simple replace lines in multiple htm &
html files.

Then ftp the files to your ISP

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"LorelC" <LorelC.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9BFEE98-97CB-4EE9-BF6F-D9D8F4B06400@microsoft.com...
> I'm making a webpage using publisher, but the Web page preview shows the
> webpage aligned on the left. Most websites have the page centered, no
> matter
> the monitor size. How do I get publisher to center the webpage in the
> browser?

LaymanTalk · Joined: Sep 10, 2009 Posts: 6

I don't know HTML; that's why I'm using Publisher 2003. So . . . here's a non-technical solution that I stumbled upon by clicking around Publisher (as a precaution, before trying this, rename your web layout file so your current version remains intact):

1- Click File, then Page Setup.

2- Under Layout, select Custom.

3- In the Width box, enter a horizontal measurement that is wider than your current setting. (This is trial and error; I changed my width from 8 inches to 10 inches.)

4- Now group the design elements in your web page and move them to the right (see next steps), so that the right edge of the layout touches the right edge of the enlarged white work area (in my case, it’s the 10-inch mark).

5- To group, hold down the Shift key, click the elements, then click Arrange, then Group. (Do just a few elements to test the centeredness in Steps 6-8, then do the rest of the layout/pages.)

6- To move a group, hover your cursor over the boundary of a group until you see the omnidirectional arrow symbol. Click and drag the group until the right boundary touches the right edge.

7- Now ungroup the elements so the layout can be seen on the web. To ungroup, click anywhere in the group, then click Arrange and select Ungroup.

8- Check the result by clicking File, then Web Page Preview. Adjust the page width if needed, move the elements again, then try viewing again.

This is kind of tedious, but it works. Here's my now-centered website: www.cumberlandumcflorence.org.

Hope this helps.