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Adding text to a web page

You can add text to a web page by typing the text, copying and pasting text, or dragging text from another application or web page to your Contribute draft.

If you are using the Windows version of Contribute, you can add the entire contents of a Microsoft Word or Excel document to a web page. For more information, see Adding Microsoft Word and Excel documents to a website.

Tip: Your website administrator can specify the amount of space that Contribute adds between paragraphs when you press Enter. For more information, talk to your administrator or see Setting page editing and paragraph permissions.

To add the current date to your page, see Adding the current date to a page; to add special characters to a page, see Adding special characters to a page.

To add text to a draft, do one of the following:

Adding the current date to a page

You can add the current date to a page. The date can also include the day of the week and the time.

To add the date to a draft:

  1. Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the date to appear.
  2. Select Insert > Date.
  3. The Insert Date dialog box appears.


    Insert Date dialog box

  4. In the Day format pop-up menu, select the format in which you want the day of the week to appear.
  5. Select No Day if you do not want to include the day in the date.

  6. In the Date format pop-up menu, select the format in which you want the date to appear.
  7. In the Time format pop-up menu, select standard or military time.
  8. Select No Time if you do not want to include the time with the date.

  9. Select Update automatically on save if you want Contribute to update the date with the current date each time the draft is saved.
  10. Click OK.
  11. Contribute adds the current date to your draft.

Adding special characters to a page

You can add special characters, such as a copyright symbol or a pound sign, to your page.

Note: You can add special characters only to pages that use Western (Latin 1) encoding. For more information about setting page encoding, see Setting page properties.

To add a special character to a draft:

  1. Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the character to appear.
  2. Do one of the following:

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