A PDF or a word document are standalone files. You can offer them to viewers as links to that document via the steps below.
If you want to display the contents of a PDF or document with in your website then you need to copy the contents or recreate the contents of these documents into a web page using the content editor.
Linking to a PDF or other document.
- Create a link with in your web page via the content editor.
- From the link options select "Attach a new public file/PDF/Word/etc"
- Then select the PDF or document you want to upload to the server.
URL Wizard that shows the Attach new public file link.
You can quickly link to videos with a video snippet block.
How can your site visitors see your video?
Here is a tutorial for how to upload large files like music files etc (eg over 1 megabyte)
How to Upload and link to a PDF or another document
If you have Mozilla Firefox installed then you might want to consider using it for FTP access...