More Advanced Formatting / Create & Remove Hyperlinks
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Often when you're typing a Word document you'll need to type an E-mail address or a website URL. When you do this, you may find that Word automatically formats the text that you type as a Hyperlink. This is a Hyperlink here. When you hold your mouse pointer over the Hyperlink you'll see a message indicating that you can press Ctrl and click on this Hyperlink to follow the link. If you've typed a URL, you'll be taken to the website that that link relates to. If you Ctrl and click on an E-mail address, you'll open your default E-mail program with a new message to that person. Sometimes you may not want to have your text formatted as a link, you simply want to indicate that this is the E-mail address or URL that someone can type. You can remove a Hyperlink from the text by selecting the text, right-clicking and choose Remove Hyperlink. This leaves the text in place but removes the Hyperlink from it. The Word feature that turns E-mail addresses and URLs into Hyperlink is a feature that can be disabled if desired. To do this, you would choose File and then Options, Proofing category. Click AutoCorrect Options and then AutoFormat As You Type. Here you'll see a checkbox for Internet and network paths with hyperlinks. If this is enabled as I have it enabled, then Word will automatically format any E-mail address or URL as a Hyperlink. If this is disabled that won't be the case. If you disable this option you're making changes to the Dialog, then click OK and OK again to confirm your changes. It's also possible to convert a piece of text into a clickable Hyperlink. I'm going to select these words, Sunburst effect, and I want to make it a Hyperlink to my website. I'll choose Insert Tab and then from the Links Category I'll select Hyperlink. I could also have right-clicked the text and select Hyperlink. In either case, I'll see the Insert Hyperlink Dialog and, as you can see, the text to display is set as Sunburst effect which is the text I had selected when I opted to open this Dialog. I can now select the address that I want to Hyperlink to. I can make this an Existing File or Web Page, a Place in This Document, I could Create a New Document, or I could link to an E-mail Address. I want to link to an Existing File or Web Page and as I have that page currently open in my Web Browser I'm going to select Browsed Pages. I can now select the link in the Browsed Pages list. As an alternative, I could have switched to my Web Browser. I could have navigated to the page that I want to link to and then copied the text from the Browser Address Bar onto the Windows Clipboard. When I return to Word I can right-click here in the Address area and paste the copied text here. Whenever you're creating a Hyperlink it's much better to get the data from either the Browsed Pages list or copy it from your Browser Address Bar rather than type it in yourself. If you type it yourself there's a chance that you'll make a mistake and you won't realize that until somebody tries the link and finds that it doesn't work. Having now created my display text and the address that I want to link to, I'll click OK to confirm this link. You'll see that the text is now formatted as a link. If I hold my mouse pointer over it I can Ctrl and click to go to that website and you can see also that I can see what the website is going to be when I hold my mouse over the link, so anyone viewing this document will know exactly where they're about to go if they click it. Hyperlinks have little value in a document that you plan to print, but when you're creating documents that will be viewed on the screen, for example, then including Hyperlinks in the document is a great idea. It means that your viewer can simply click on a link to view the Web Page that you were referring to, or click to E-mail someone.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Word 2010 |
| Author: | Helen Bradley |
| SKU: | 34149 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-42-9 |
| Release Date: | 2010-08-05 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 119 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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