Protect your FrontPage shared borders

On sites that use shared borders and have multiple authors, inexperienced users can accidentally change a shared border. This can create significant grief for the webmaster who has to reconstruct the shared border. A simple way to protect your shared borders is to create the border, then copy it to another file in the _borders directory (e.g. top_include.htm). Next, open the original border file (e.g., top.htm) and delete all its contents. Add an Include Page component to the page, specifying your renamed file (top_include.htm)  as the page to be included. With this configuration, it's harder to edit a border, but if a shared border gets overwritten, the include file will remain intact and the border can be salvaged much easier.

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