HOW TO: Publish a Web Document to an FTP Site (301938)

SUMMARY

This article is a step-by-step guide that shows you how to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to publish a Microsoft Office document to a Web server.

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Requirements

The following items describe the recommended hardware, software, network infrastructure, skills and knowledge, and service packs you will need.

• Microsoft Office 2000

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

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Publish an Office Document to an FTP Site

To use FTP to publish your Office document, you must have access to an intranet or Internet FTP site that supports the saving of files. Additionally, you must have access rights to save to this FTP site, and you must add the FTP site to your list of Internet sites.

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Add an FTP Site to the List of Internet Sites

These steps are the same for any Office 2000 program. To add an FTP site to the list of Internet sites:

1. On the File menu, click Open.
2. In the Look in box, click Add/Modify FTP Locations.
3. In the Name of FTP site box, type the name of your FTP site.
4. To log on to a site that permits anonymous FTP access, click Anonymous.
   
   Or, to log on to a site where you have user credentials, click User. Type your User ID, and then type your password if you are prompted.
5. Click Add.

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Publish the Document

After you add the FTP site location to the FTP site list, follow these steps to publish your document:

1. Open the document or Office Web that you want to publish.
2. On the File menu, click Save as Web Page.
3. In the Save in list, click FTP Locations.
4. In the list of FTP sites, double-click the site that you want, and then double-click the location where you want to save the document.
5. In the File name box, type a name for the Web page.
6. In the folder list, select a location for the Web page.
7. To change the Web page title (the text that appears in the title bar of your Web browser), click Change Title, type the new title in the Page title box, and then click OK.

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