Link to a file on your computer

To add content to your website that you saved on your computer, create a link on a page on your website to a file saved 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 and then links to that copy—not to the actual file on your computer—to create the new page on your website.

If you want to replace an existing page on your website with the contents of a file saved on you computer, see Replace a file 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 Insert a link to a Microsoft Word or Excel document from Microsoft Office (Windows only)).

1. In your draft, do one of the following to indicate where you want the link to appear:

   • Place the insertion point in the draft.

   • Select text in the draft.

   • Select an image in the draft.

2. Do one of the following to open the Insert Link dialog box:

   • Click the Link button in the toolbar, and then select File on My Computer.

   • Select Insert > Link > File on My Computer.

   • Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and then select Insert Link.

3. Click the File on My Computer button (Windows) or File button (Mac OS) at the top of the dialog box, if it is not already selected.

4. Complete the dialog box.

   For more information, see Completing the File on My Computer section of the Insert Link dialog box.

5. Click OK.

   Contribute copies the file to create a page on your website. A link to the new page appears in your draft.

   Note: To edit content to the linked page after you publish, see Edit web pages in an external application. Changes you make to the original file do not appear on your website.

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