Link to a file in a drop down menu

Hello
I have about 30 Pdfs to upload to my website, instead of just listing them I wanted to use a drop menu. I have worked out how to create the menu, but I don't know how to make the items active. So that when you click on them a PDF automatically downloads?
Any ideas?
Thanks

You're welome.
In Muse there are really only two options: Vertical and Horizontal, pick whichever one suits you, but with 30 documents to link, I think vertical might be the way to go.
1) In the Widget palette, go to "Menus" click and drag "Vertical" into your artboard/workspace
2) Click on the widget itself to a blue arrow appears to the right
3) There is a drop down called "Menu Type" set it to "Manual"
4) Name the widget whatever you like; i.e. "Documents to Download; $9.95"
5) Click the widget again till you see little grey boxes with crosshairs appear - these will allow you to add submenus - either to the right or below. These, for example can end up being the names your documents to download, with a link as descibed above in each one.
To add another submenu to create a long list of 30, right click on the submenu element itself and so it's highlited in a blue dashed line. Right Click. Choose "Insert Element"
6) OR if you want to menu itself to be one long list of documents without any submenus coming out the bottoms or sides you can always do the following:
7) Right click on the widget till it says "Insert Element". Click on this. You will then get another menu box like the one you have and you can just stack these and create links in each one to your PDF documents
8) Either way will work depending on how you want the page to look and behave. You can also use this technique to create links to other pages as well - which is what it was originally intended for, but it can make an excellent way to organise downloadable documents.
Hope that helps, let me know if you run into any hiccups.

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