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Linking to a file on your computer

To add content that you have saved on your computer to your website, create a link on a page on your website to a file on your computer or network.

For example, you might link to a Word document saved on your hard drive or an HTML page saved on your desktop. This essentially adds a new page to your website, with the content contained in the file.

When you publish the page with the link, Contribute copies the file into your website, then links to that copy--not to the actual file on your computer--to create the new page on your website.

Note: To edit content in the linked page after you publish, see Editing content in an external application. Changes you make to the original file do not appear on your website.

You can use the Insert Link dialog box to insert a link to a file on your computer, or you can drag the file to your page (see Inserting a link to a Word or Excel document).

To create a link to a file on your computer using the Insert Link dialog box:

  1. In your draft, do one of the following to indicate where the link will appear:
  2. Do one of the following to open the Insert Link dialog box:
  3. Click the File on My Computer button (Windows) or File button (Macintosh) at the top of the dialog box, if it is not already selected.
  4. Enter link text in the Link text text box, if you did not select text or an image in your draft.
  5. This is the text a website visitor clicks to go to another page.

    Note: This text box is not available if you selected text or an image in the draft.

  6. Beside the File to link to text box, click the Browse button to find the file you want to link to, then click Select (Windows) or Choose (Macintosh) to close the dialog box.
  7. To set advanced options, do one of the following to expand the dialog box, then set the options you want.
  8. Click OK.
  9. Contribute copies the file to create a new page on your website. A link to the new page appears in your draft.


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