Linking To A File On Your Computer - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Enter link text in the Link text text box, if you did not select text or an image on your draft.
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This is the text a website visitor will click to send an e-mail message.
Note: This text box is not available if you selected text or an image on the draft.
Enter the e-mail address in the E-mail address text box.
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Click OK.
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Contribute adds the link to the page.

Linking to a file on your computer

To add content that you have saved on your computer to your website, create a link on a page on
your website to a file on your computer or network.
For example, you might link to a Word document saved on your hard drive, or an HTML page
saved on your desktop. This essentially adds a new page to your website, with the content
contained in the file.
When you publish the page with the link, Contribute copies the file into your website, then links
to that copy—not to the actual file on your computer—to create the new page on your website.
Note: To edit content in the linked page after you publish, see "Editing content in an external application" on
page 42. Changes you make to the original file will not appear on your website.
You can use the Insert Link dialog box to insert a link to a file on your computer, or you can drag
the file to your page (see "Inserting a link to a Word or Excel document" on page 54).
To create a link to a file on your computer using the Insert Link dialog box:
In your draft, do one of the following to indicate where the link will appear:
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Place the insertion point in the draft.
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Select text in the draft.
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Select an image in the draft.
Do one of the following to open the Insert Link dialog box:
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Click the Link button in the toolbar, then select File on My Computer.
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Select Insert > Link > File on My Computer.
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