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How to Insert a Document Tutorial

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You have logged in and are at the page you wish to edit. Go to the Main Content tab section that you want to create a link to a document(e.g. newsletter/calendar PDF).

First you need to place the document on the web server > click the 'Insert Document' button.

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The Document Manager panel will appear:

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Double click the folder 'News' as we are planning to link a newsletter > for calendars you would place the document in the obvious folder as well; otherwise just upload your document here > or even make a New folder...

The breadcrumb indicates to you that you are now in /documents/news folder > where exactly you want to be.

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To upload your document, you will 'Choose File' button as shown above.

From there you will look on your computer/network what file you need uploaded.

Once you find your file (ChalktalkforEducators_Oct2010.pdf), you will click the 'Open' button & let the computer do the work for you.

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The document (ChalktalkforEducators_Oct2010.pdf) now resides on the web server where it needs to live:

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Once you have closed the Document Manager (the 'X' on the right side on the document manager) > your document is where it needs to be > we go back to our text - 'October Newsletter' and highlight the word/or phrase:

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Click the 'Insert/Edit Link' button:

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Click the folder button to browse to your document/file that you want linked:

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Double-click the 'documents' folder/directory > we know that is where we uploaded the PDF to:

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We have clicked in the /documents/news folder > we select our document (ChalktalkforEducators_Oct2010.pdf) > click the 'Select File' button:

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The document will be listed in the Link > you should also consider setting the 'Target' as Open in new window (so the website is always accessible beyond the document) and click the 'Insert' button:

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The link is created! Yahoo success!:

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To unlink a word/or phrase > just highlight the said link and click the unlink button > voila! link unlinked:

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