Editing Content In An External Application - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

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Do one of the following:
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Deselect File > Work Offline.
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Click the Work Online button in the toolbar.

Editing content in an external application

If you have images, Microsoft Word documents, Macromedia Flash content, or other file types on
your website that you want to edit, you need to edit that content in the application in which it
was created. Use Contribute to edit the file in the appropriate application.
Note: You need to use Contribute to edit the file; changes you make to the local, original source file will not appear
on your website.
Before you can use Contribute to launch an external application editor, you might need to
associate an editor with the file type you intend to edit (see "Setting file editor preferences" on
page 29). Contribute has preassigned editors for common file types.
To edit content in an external application:
To find the content you want to edit, do one of the following:
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Browse to the page or file that contains the content you want to edit.
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Click the Choose button in the toolbar, navigate to the file you want to edit, then click OK.
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Enter the path for the file you want to edit in the Address text box, then click Go.
If the Contribute browser cannot display the page or file you've selected, you'll see the File
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Placeholder page.
To edit the page or file, you need to associate a file editor with this file type (see "Setting file
editor preferences" on page 29).
Select the content you want to edit, if necessary.
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For example, if you want to edit an image on a page, select the image. If you want to edit the
page, a Word page for example, you do not need to select content.
Click the Edit button in the toolbar or select File > Edit.
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Note: To edit an image on a draft, select File > Edit Image or right-click the image, then select Edit Image.
Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and launches an external editing
application.
Note: To change your default editor, see "Setting file editor preferences" on page 29.
If you are editing an image in Macromedia Fireworks, click No in the Find Source dialog box
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to indicate that you do not want to edit the source file for this image; you want to edit the
image for your website only.
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