# "Edit with ...." in IE

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 10, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172 "2003-12-10T17:32:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rayray5884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172/1 "2003-12-10T17:32:08Z")

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I want to edit a website using Frontpage. To make this short I NEED to be able to File -\> Edit the website in question. Whenever I do that the only option is to edit with Word. So I went into the IE options and looked into changing the default HTML editor. I changed it to FP and nothing happened. So I went in again and changed it to notepad just to see what would happen there. Again it still opened in word. So I went back once again and FP wasn’t even in the list. What should I do?

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**Author:** ![boofy\_bloke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@boofy\_bloke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofy_bloke)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172/2 "2003-12-11T06:07:47Z")

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I don’t know the answer to your problem but… don’t use FP if you can avoid it: it produces horrendous code and bloats your pages.

However, if you use another browser (e.g. Mozilla) it often comes with a built-in editor which works in HTML and in WYSIWYG.

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172/3 "2003-12-11T07:11:10Z")

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If you’re set on using FP, can you just start FP and load the page from there? Or are you just asking how to get the shortcut thing in place?

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**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172/4 "2003-12-11T07:25:21Z")

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you might have to change it in the registry (which can be kind of dangerous messing around in there if you don’t know what you are doing)

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**Author:** ![rayray5884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edit-with-in-ie/218172/5 "2003-12-11T07:39:42Z")

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I got it to let me edit the page in frontpage. I was kinda thinking that adding FP to the list would require some sort of registry manipulation. It’s no big deal now though. Thanks everyone!