PDF (adobe.com)

Insert a Microsoft Word or Excel document as a PDF from Microsoft Office (Windows only)

With Contribute, you can insert a Microsoft Word or an Excel document as a PDF document from Microsoft Word or Excel into a web page.

  1. Open a document in Microsoft Word or Excel.

  2. (Optional) To open only a specific section of the document in Contribute, select the section.

  3. 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.

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

  5. Click the Choose Template button to set a 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 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 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 update the template with changes 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.

  6. (Optional) Clear the Open current selection only check box to open the entire document instead of the selection.

  7. Click Open.

    The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box appears.

  8. Select Convert To PDF and create a link to the PDF or Convert To PDF and embed the PDF as Object.

  9. (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.

  10. Click OK.

    Contribute converts the document to a PDF file and inserts it as a link or as an embedded object into your draft. Also, Contribute applies the selected template to the web page.