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Editing content in an external application

If you want to edit images, Microsoft Word documents, Macromedia Fireworks content, or files of other types on your website, you need to edit that content in the application in which it was created. Use Contribute to edit the file in the appropriate application.

Note: You need to use Contribute to edit the file; changes you make to the local, original source file do not appear on your website.

Before you can use Contribute to launch an external application editor, you may need to associate an editor with the type of the file you intend to edit (see Setting file editor preferences). Contribute has preassigned editors for common file types.

To edit content in an external application:

  1. To find the content you want to edit, do one of the following:
  2. If the Contribute browser cannot display the page or file you’ve selected, you’ll see the File Placeholder page.
  3. To edit the page or file, you need to associate a file editor with this file type (see Setting file editor preferences).

  4. Select the content you want to edit, if necessary.
  5. For example, if you want to edit an image on a page, select the image. If you want to edit the page (a Word page, for example), you do not need to select content.

  6. Click the Edit button in the toolbar or select File > Edit.
  7. Note: To edit an image on a draft, select File > Edit Image or right-click the image, and select Edit Image.

    Contribute displays the External Application Editing page and launches an external editing application.

    Note: To change your default editor, see Setting file editor preferences.

  8. If you are editing an image in Macromedia Fireworks, click No in the Find Source dialog box to indicate that you do not want to edit the source file for this image; you want to edit the image for your website only.
  9. In the external application, make changes as necessary; then save your changes and close the application.
  10. Note: If you are editing in Fireworks, click the Done button in the editing window.

  11. In Contribute, click the Publish button in the toolbar to publish your changes to the website.
  12. Note: If you need to make additional edits before you publish, click the Launch button on the External Application Editing page to open the content in the external editor.

    The updated content appears in Contribute.


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