Adding Microsoft Word And Excel Documents To A Website - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

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"Creating and inserting Flash documents within Contribute (Windows only)" on page 66
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"Using the FlashPaper toolbar" on page 68
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"Creating a Flash document in another application" on page 69

Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website

With Contribute you can easily add Word and Excel documents or content from those
documents to your website.
For example, suppose you have a Word table that contains contact information for all of your
sales representatives in North America. You don't have to recreate the table on your web page—
you can use Contribute to add it to your website.
There are three ways to add Word or Excel content to a web page:
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Add the contents of a Word or Excel document
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Insert a link to a Word or Excel document
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Convert the document to a Flash document
Tip: In Windows, you can set a user preference so that when you add a Word or Excel document,
Contribute always either adds the contents of the document or inserts a link to the document.
Adding Word or Excel content to a page (Windows only)
You can add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a new or existing web page.
When you add content to a page, Contribute converts it to HTML and copies it to your web
page. You can then edit the content in Contribute; changes you make to the original file on your
computer do not appear on your website.
If the document you are converting to HTML is larger than 300K, Contribute advises that the
file is too large to convert and gives you other options for inserting the document: converting the
document to a Flash document or inserting a link to the document. For information about these
options, see "Converting documents with FlashPaper" on page 66
or Excel document" on page
Note: If you use Microsoft Office 97, you cannot add the contents of a Word or Excel document; you
must insert a link to the document or convert the document to a Flash document.
To add the contents of a Word or Excel document to a draft:
In your draft, place the insertion point where you want the content to appear.
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Do one of the following to select the file with the content you want to insert:
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Select Insert > Microsoft Office Document.
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In the Open dialog box, browse to the file you want to add, and then click Open.
(Windows only) Drag the file from its current location to the Contribute draft where you
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want the content to appear.
In the Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box, click Insert the contents of the
document into this page, and then click OK.
The contents of the Word or Excel document appear in your draft.
on an existing web page
and insert it into a web page
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Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website
to a new or existing web page (Windows only)
and "Inserting a link to a Word
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