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By: Wordpress: Quick Start Guide —Lena Shore Graphic Designer Lena Shore, Graphic Design, Web Design & Hosting, Illustration

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:12:48 +0000

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By: Lena Shore

Lena Shore — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:36:59 +0000

Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc) aren’t made to open Word documents. You must use Microsoft Word to open the file. If you don’t have Word on your computer, it can only download the file. If you do have Word on your computer there may be a local way to set your computer to open downloaded files in the proper programs. Although, I wouldn’t want to do this automatically as it is a security risk. However, you could check your preferences on your specific browser or your computer and see if there is an option for that.

By: Joanie McDonald

Joanie McDonald — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:29:30 +0000

Hi Lena,

I followed your instructions on adding the link to the document, however what I am looking to do is open the document (it’s a word doc) in a new page but all it’s doing is downloading to the computer. Is there a way to get it to open without downloading it?

By: Lena

Lena — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:14:13 +0000

Hi Lesley!

Yes. I think I know what is happening. You want to re-read step 8. The URL is to a page with the link and not the link itself. I should probably clarify in my instructions a bit more.

You have: http://delta.aplaceforwomen.org/home/laadsv-summer-2010-6/
You want: http://delta.aplaceforwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/LAADSV-Summer-20105.pdf

It’s one of the options when uploading the file and how you want the file name. Make sense?

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:07:30 +0000

Hi Lena,
Thank you for the help. I might be doing something wrong. I followed these steps to link newsletter PDFs to my website homepage, but my linked titles are ending up on their own page instead of inserting into the homepage. Any tips for how to correct this?

Thank you!

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Wordpress: Quick Start Guide — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:13:09 +0000

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By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:49:29 +0000

Hi Lena,
I’ve enjoyed scrolling through the technical advise here on your blog. I’ve been meaning to prepare some links to pdfs on my blog, but hadn’t done it yet, mostly because I wasn’t sure how and haven’t had the gumption to learn. Problem solved! Thanks.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:59:55 +0000

Thanks, it really helped!