Creating QuickPlace Documents – Standard Documents and Changing Your Front Page
QuickPlace documents are where most of the information for your Web site will be placed.
There are three kinds of QuickPlace documents:
- Standard – those created using the standard form
- Imported – those created in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or HTML and imported into QuickPlace
- Custom – those created with a user designed custom form.
This document will discuss Standard documents. To find out more on creating standard documents, go to Creating QuickPlace Documents – Imported Documents.
To begin creating a new document, be sure that you are signed into the QuickPlace and that you have either Author or Manager access.
If you want to place the document in a particular folder, first click on the folder’s name in the Table of Contents.
Creating a Standard Document
If the folder where you want to create the document has a “New Page” button, click that. If it doesn’t, click “New” then choose “Page” from the next window. Click “Next”.
Enter a title for your page. Type your text in the contents field (see below for information on formatting the contents).
If you want, add attachments to the page (see below for information on adding attachments).
Click “Publish” to post your document on the Web Site.
Entering contents
You can emphasize a piece of text -- a word, phrase, or paragraph -- by formatting it. Highlight the text you want to emphasize and then click one of the icons above the box where you enter the content. You can also choose formatting options before you begin typing. For example, if you click Bold, then begin typing, your type will appear bolded. The formatting icons are described in the following table.
To reformat text, highlight the text and click the icon for the type of formatting you want to change. To use more than one format for the same piece of text, highlight the text and click multiple formatting icons in succession.
Icon / Description/ Displays the text in boldface type.
/ Displays the text in italic type.
/ Displays the text in underlined type.
/ Displays the text in a color you choose.
/ Aligns the text to the right or left or centers it.
/ Indents the text.
/ Outdents the text (Internet Explorer only).
/ Converts the highlighted text into one or more items in a bulleted list.
/ Converts the highlighted text into one or more items in a numbered list (Internet Explorer only).
There are also icons to create headlines; insert graphic text, images, and links to other pages; and check your spelling.
Icon / Description/ Creates a headline. Click the spot in the text where you want the headline to appear, click the icon, and then type the headline; or highlight existing text and then click the icon.
/ Lets you insert text with special graphic effects, for example, text that appears to slide onto the page. Click the spot in the text where you want the text to appear and then click the icon.
/ Lets you insert a copy of an image stored on your computer. Click the spot in the text where you want the image to appear and then click the icon.
/ Lets you check your spelling. Click any spot in the text and then click the icon.
/ Lets you create a link to another page in or outside your place. Click the spot in the text where you want the link to appear and then click the icon.
Adding Attachments
You can attach a file to a page if you want to share the file with other QuickPlace members, or if you want people to be able to copy download the file to their own computers so they can work with it using the same application you used to create it.
You can add and remove attachments using Internet Explorer or Netscape.
To create an attachment using Internet Explorer, you need to tell QuickPlace the location of the file that you want to attach. Either drag the file icon from your desktop into the attachments area of the page, which is below the contents box, or follow this procedure:
- Click the Folder icon below the contents box. (You may have to scroll the Folder icon into view using the scroll bar at the right of the screen.)
- In the Open dialog box that appears on the screen, select the name of the file or files you want to attach to the page, and then click Open.
- If necessary, repeat this procedure to attach additional files to the page.
When you finish creating the page, QuickPlace creates a copy of the file or files and attaches them to the page. In the finished page, an attachment is indicated by a file icon at the bottom of the page. Readers can click the icon to get access to the information in the attachment.
To view the attachment to verify you've selected the right one, click Open Attachment. To delete an attachment, highlight the file icon that represents the attachment and then click the X icon.