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To add a downloadable Microsoft document to your Microsoft Web site, you must first import the document into your FrontPage Folder List, then link to it from your Web page, and then publish your Web site.

When site visitors click the hyperlink, they will be able to open the Word document or save it to their desktop.

Note  Visitors must have Word or the Microsoft Office Word Viewer installed on their computer in order to view the Word document.

To add the Word document to your Web site after you have imported it, see Add a Word document to a FrontPage 2003 Web site.

1. If the Folder List is not visible, on the View menu, click Folder List.

   If the Folder List command is unavailable

   Some FrontPage features require special FrontPage information called metadata (metadata: Data that describes other data. For example, the words in a document are data; the word count is an example of metadata.). If the Folder List command is unavailable, you may need to add FrontPage metadata to your Web site. To learn more about FrontPage metadata, see About FrontPage Web sites in the See Also list which is visible when you are connected to the Internet.

   To add FrontPage metadata to your Web site

   1. Close all open pages.
   2. On the File menu, click Open Site.
   3. In the Open Site dialog box, browse to and click the folder that contains your Web site.

      No folder or site name will appear in the Site name box.

   4. Click Open. If you are alerted that FrontPage needs to add information to your folder, click Yes.
2. On the File menu, click Import.
3. In the Import dialog box, click Add File.
4. In the Add File to Import List dialog box, browse to the Microsoft document that you want to import, select it, and then click Open.
5. Click OK.