Hyperlink in a word document

[JR]

I feel like I've established a hyperlink WITHIN the same
WORD document. Everything appears to be fine but when I
pass the cursor over the blue underlined text it behaves
as in regular edit mode. What is the main thing to do
to "activate" text to behave as a hyperlink ... i.e. to
get a hyperlink pointer of some type? My problem MIGHT
be in setting the "heading style" which I thought I did
by choosing "hyperlink" in the STYLE dropdown of the
toolbar. Am I missing something?
thx

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi JR,

Yep, you missed something.

Using the Style dropdown, you've only formatted the text to *look*
like a hyperlink -- blue and underlined. To make an actual hyperlink,
you have to go to the Insert > Hyperlink dialog (shortcut: Ctrl+K),
click "Place in this document" on the left, and choose the destination
of the link.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you choose Hyperlink in the Styles dropdown, you are applying the
Hyperlink character style, which formats text as blue and underlined. This
does *not* convert it to a hyperlink. There are (at least) three ways to
convert text to a hyperlink:

1. If you have "Internet and networks paths with hyperlinks" checked on the
AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools | AutoCorrect, then links will be
converted as you type. You may not want this option enabled if you don't
want formatted links in documents to be printed.

2. If you have the same option enabled on the AutoFormat tab of Tools |
AutoCorrect, then you can select an URL, email address, or file path that
has already been typed and run AutoFormat to convert it. (I have an
AutoFormat button my Standard toolbar, but I don't know whether it's there
by default or I added it.)

3. You can select an URL, email address, or file path and convert it to a
hyperlink using any of the following methods: (a) click the Insert Hyperlink
button on the Standard toolbar (this is even easier than AutoFormat, and I
hadn't realized this worked this way till I tried it), (b) press Ctrl+K and
Enter, or (c) right-click, choose Hyperlink..., and press Enter. Both of the
latter two open the Hyperlink dialog with your text already inserted in the
appropriate boxes. If you want your hyperlink to display different text, you
can change this, too, so that the text in the document says, for example,
"this Web site," while the underlying URL points to the desired Web page.
You can also add a ScreenTip that will be displayed when users mouse over
the link.

If the link is to a bookmark in the currentor another document, then you
will need to use the Insert Hyperlink dialog to create it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[jr]

Thanks for the reply but I DID insert the hyperlink AS
WELL AS apply the format. I created a bookmark which I
subsequently slelected from "bookmarks" in the insert
hyperlink dialog box.

 

[jr]

Thanks for the reply but I DID insert the hyperlink AS
WELL AS apply the format. I created a bookmark which I
subsequently slelected from "bookmarks" in the insert
hyperlink dialog box.
for simplicity, this is intended to link to a bookmark
within the same document.
thanks again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, you didn't say that. You also didn't say what version of Word you
have. If it's Word 2002 or 2003, you must (by default) press Ctrl while
clicking on the hyperlink for it to work.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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