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Insert a link to a Microsoft Word or Excel document from Microsoft Office (Windows only)

You can insert a link to a Microsoft Word or Excel document in a new page. When you publish the page with the link, Contribute copies the document to your website and then links to the copy (not to the original file on the computer).

  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 have made current 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.


  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 the 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.

    Note: This checkbox is enabled when you select text in your document.

  7. Click Open.

    The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box appears.

  8. Select Create A Link To The Office document.

  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.

    The selected template is applied to the web page, and Contribute inserts a link to 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.