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To add a file (such as a PDF file, text file, multimedia file, or program) to your Microsoft Web site, you must first import the file into your FrontPage Folder List, link to it from your Web page, and then publish your Web site. When users click the hyperlink, the file will run from the server or open on their desktop.

Note  To import a file into your FrontPage Folder List, see Import a file into a FrontPage Folder List.

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. Open the Web page from which you want to link to the file.
3. Select the text or picture that you want to use as the hyperlink.

   Note  If you do not select text or a picture, the destination URL (Uniform Resource Locator (URL): An address that specifies a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) and a location of an object, document, World Wide Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet, for example: http://www.microsoft.com/.) is displayed as the hyperlink text.

4. On the Standard toolbar, click Insert Hyperlink .
5. Under Link to, click Existing File or Web Page.
6. Select the file that you imported into your FrontPage Web site, and then click OK.