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First and foremost--this functionality suggests that, if you tend to overwrite files frequently, you might be better of creating direct links to files rather than attaching them to Items or Blank Pages.

However, if you do need to attach fiiles in certain instances, you will need to navigate to the location in the course where that file attachment is, remove the current version and then navigate to the updated version in your content collection in order to update the attachment link.

• In Bb Vista, users could click the Add File>Create File button and create an HTML file using the HTML Creator. This file would be saved in the File Manager (which is similar to the Bb Learn content collection, but different in some significant ways), and also such HTML files could also be edited later in BB Vista. 
• In Bb Vista, HTML files that were created with FrontPage or Dreamweaver or some other HTML files could be uploaded into the File Manager and could ALSO be edited. 

• In Bb Learn, users can create page Items or Blank Pages using the visual editor, but these content items are not automatically saved as editable "files" that are stored in the Content Collection unless users select the "Save as Reusable Object" checkbox below the visual editor. If you save them as reusable objects you'll be able to edit them from the Content Collection as well as from the location in the course where they're linked. To edit them from the Content Collection click the item's action link dropdown and select "overwrite re-usable object content".
• In Bb Learn, users may upload an HTML file, but you cannot edit it from within Bb Learn or from within the Content Collection.
• HTML files that are uploaded are stored in the Content Collection and links can be added (into Content Areas, Folders, or Learning Modules) to files. However, even HTML files that have been uploaded are not editable in BB Learn. In fact, NO uploaded files are editable. 

If an instructor uploads a PDF as a "File" on a Content Area, in a folder, or in a learning module without selecting "open in a new window" = YES it looks as though the PDF simply opens in the right-hand content frame without a way for the student to Save it.

However, by scrolling to the BOTTOM of the PDF file and mousing over, a little floating control palette appears that enables the student to save, print, zoom in, etc. This is really not intuitive nor immediately apparent, however, so it might be wise to suggest to faculty that they have PDFs open in a new window.  (Word and Ppt docs do not have this issue; they always provide an "open" or "save" dialog box).