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Add Microsoft Word, Excel, or Outlook contents into a page from Microsoft Office (Windows only)

You can add the contents of a document (Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or an Outlook message) to a new web page. You can also associate templates with these documents before opening them.

When you add content to a page, Contribute copies the contents of your document into the Contribute editor. You can the edit the content in Contribute, and publish it to your website.

  1. Open a document in Microsoft Word or Excel.

  2. To open the document in Contribute, do one of the following from the Contribute toolbar in the application:

    Note: If you made changes to the document, save the document before you open it in Contribute.

    • Select Contribute > Open In Contribute.

    • Click the Open In Contribute button in the toolbar.

    Note: Contribute provides an alert if you do not have a website connection. For more information on creating a website connection, see Create a website connection.

    The Open As New Page dialog box appears in Contribute.


  3. Select the website where you want to place your document.

  4. Click the Choose Template button to set an updated template for an Office document opened in Contribute. For more information about setting a template, see Set templates when opening Office documents (Windows only).

    If you do not click the Choose Template button in the Open as New Page dialog box, the template that was last used to open a Microsoft Office document or the _blank template is associated with the document you are currently opening. In addition, if this template does not match the template on the server, Contribute displays the Download Template dialog box. You can choose to do one of the following:

    • Click the Open Using The Old Template button to open the document using the old template.

    • Click the Download And Open button to download the updated template from the server, and then open the document.

    Note: If the target website does not have templates, when you click the Choose Template button, a message indicating that there are no templates is displayed.

  5. (Optional) If you selected content in the document, and want to open the entire document instead of the selection, clear the Open Current Selection Only check box.

    Note: This option is available only if you selected content in the document.

  6. Click Open.

    The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box appears in Contribute.

    Note: The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box does not appear if you are inserting contents from an Outlook e-mail message. The contents of the e-mail message are automatically inserted into the Contribute editor after you click Open.

  7. Select Insert The Contents Of The Document Into This Page.

  8. (Optional) Select The Remember This Setting And Don’t Ask Again check box if you do not want to be asked about the insert option in the future.

  9. Click OK.

    The selected template is applied to the web page, and Contribute opens the document in a draft. Before you publish this document, you must create a link to this new page from an existing page. For more information, see Create text and image links.

    Note: You cannot use the Open In Contribute option for .rtf files.