FP98: Images in Centered Bulleted List Are Left Aligned

When you center a bulleted list on a page, the images used for the bullets remain aligned at the left margin of the page. This behavior only occurs when you have applied a theme.

When you create a bulleted list on a page, FrontPage uses standard HTML list tags. When you center the text in the list, FrontPage adds an align="center" attribute to the paragraph tag inside the list. When a Web browser and FrontPage Editor read this code, the entire list appears centered.

When you use a theme on your page, FrontPage uses tables to display the list rather than standard list tags. Therefore, when you center the list text, FrontPage adds the align="center" attribute to the paragraph tag inside the cell. As a result, the cells that contain the text are centered, but the cells that contain the images for the bullets are not.

To work around this problem and center a bulleted list on a page that uses themes, follow these steps:

1. On the Table menu, click Insert Table.
2. In the Insert Table dialog box, set the following values:

       Item                  Value
       -------------------------------
       Rows                  1
       Columns               1
       Alignment             Center
       Border Size           0
       Cell Padding          0
       Cell Spacing          0
       Specify Width         Unchecked
   						

3. Click OK.
4. Select the bulleted list.
5. On the Edit menu, click Cut.
6. Click inside the newly created table.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.