Change the look of a navigation bar

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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Change the look of a navigation bar

ShowChange the design of the navigation bar buttons

  1. Select the navigation bar that you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Navigation Bar Properties, and then click the Style tab.
  3. In the list box under Apply a design, click the style that you want.

ShowChange the size or style of the navigation bar links

  1. Select the navigation bar that you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Navigation Bar Properties, and then click the Style tab.
  3. Under Apply a design, do one of the following:
    • To select a small button style, click Small buttons.
    • To select a large button style, click Large buttons.
    • To select text only buttons, click Text only.

ShowMake navigation bar buttons show selected state of a page

You can make the navigation bar show the selected state of a Web page to help your Web site visitors keep track of which page they are viewing. When a navigation bar is set to show the selected state of a Web page, the link or button for the selected page will have a different appearance from the links for the other pages of the Web site, and its hyperlink will be inactive.

  1. Select the navigation bar that you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Navigation Bar Properties, and then click the Style tab.
  3. Select the Show selected state check box.

Note  The Show selected state check box is selected by default. If you clear this check box, all of the buttons on the navigation bar will look the same, regardless of the selected state of a page.

ShowChange the orientation of the navigation bar

You can make the buttons or links in a navigation bar display in either a vertical column or a horizontal row.

  1. Select the navigation bar that you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Navigation Bar Properties, and then click the Style tab.
  3. Under Orientation and alignment, do one of the following:
    • To select a vertical navigation bar, click Vertical (column of hyperlinks).
    • To select a horizontal navigation bar, click Horizontal (row of hyperlinks).

ShowChange the maximum number of hyperlinks across for a horizontal navigation bar

You can specify how may buttons you want to display across a row in horizontal navigation bars. If there are more buttons in the navigation bar than can be displayed in a single row, the navigation bar will display more than one row of buttons.

You can change the number of links that display across a row for a text-only navigation bar by resizing the text box that contains the text-only navigation bar.

  1. Select the horizontal navigation bar that you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Navigation Bar Properties, and then click the Style tab.
  3. Under Orientation and alignment, type or select the number of hyperlinks that you want to display in a row in the Maximum number of hyperlinks across box.

ShowChange the alignment of navigation bar hyperlinks on the page

You can change the alignment of navigation bar links on the page for vertical, text-only navigation bars or for horizontal navigation bars.

  1. Select the vertical, text-only navigation bar or horizontal navigation bar that you want to change.
  2. On the Format menu, click Navigation Bar Properties, and then click the Style tab.
  3. In the hyperlink alignment box, do one of the following:
    • To align hyperlinks to the left of the page, click Left.
    • To center the hyperlinks on the page, click Center.
    • To align navigation bar hyperlinks to the right of the page, click Right.

ShowChange the color of a navigation bar

The best way to apply consistent colors changes to every instance of a navigation bar in your publication is by changing the color scheme for your publication. If you change the color of your navigation bar by changing the color scheme, your navigation bar will retain any of its original fill effects, and it will retain complementary formatting for the selected state appearance of buttons.

ShowHow?

  1. On the Format menu, click Color Schemes.
  2. In the Color Schemes task pane, click the color scheme that you want to apply to your publication.

ShowChange the fonts for text on a navigation bar

The best way to apply consistent font changes to all of the buttons on every instance of a navigation bar in your publication is by changing the font scheme for your publication. If you change the fonts by changing the font scheme, your navigation bar will have consistent complementary formatting for button text in both the selected and unselected states.

ShowHow?

  1. On the Format menu, click Font Schemes.
  2. In the Font Schemes task pane, click the font scheme that you want to apply to your publication.