Edit web pages in an external application

To edit images, Microsoft Word documents, Adobe Fireworks™ content, or files of other types on your website, edit the content in the application in which it was created. You can open the appropriate application from Contribute to edit the file.

Before you can use Contribute to start an external application editor, you may need to associate an editor with the type of the file you intend to edit (see Setting file editor preferences). Contribute has preassigned editors for common file types.

1. To find the content you want to edit, do one of the following:

   • Browse to the page or file that contains the content you want to edit, and then click Edit Page.

   • Click the Choose button in the toolbar, navigate to the file you want to edit, and then click OK.

     Note: If the Contribute browser cannot display the page or file you’ve selected, you’ll see the File Placeholder page.

   • If you browsed to a page and opened it as a draft, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the element you want to edit, and then select Edit In External Application.

     Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and starts an external editing application.

     Note: To change your default editor, see Setting file editor preferences.

2. If you are editing an image in Fireworks, click No in the Find Source dialog box 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.

3. In the external application, make changes as necessary; then save your changes and close the application.

   Note: If you are editing in Fireworks, click the Done button in the editing window.

4. In Contribute, click one of the action buttons in the toolbar.

   Click the Launch link on the External Application Editing page to open the content in the external editor again, to make additional changes.

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