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ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3
User Guide
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• A toolbar for Contribute appears in a separate row in the applications.
Opening documents in Contribute from Microsoft Word, Excel, and the Outlook e-mail
reader
Whenever you open a document in Contribute from a Microsoft Office application, you can either insert a section
or the entire contents of the document in the Contribute editor, create a link to the document from the active page
in the Contribute editor, or insert the contents as a PDF.
Note:
When you open Outlook e-mail messages in Contribute, you can insert only the contents of the message in the
editor.
There are three ways to add content from Microsoft Office applications to your new web page:
• Add Word, Excel, or Outlook contents to the page
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Insert a link from a Word or an Excel document
• Inserting a Word or Excel document as a PDF
Adding 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.
To add Word, Excel, or Outlook content to a page from Microsoft Office:
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.
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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 “Creating a website connection” on page 183.
The Open As New Page dialog box appears in Contribute.