How to Create Hyperlinks To a Section of Your Word Document

If you are working on a Word document that is more than five pages long, you know how cumbersome it can be to scroll all the way up to the top of the page. In addition just like a web page you want your readers to be able to navigate through your document with ease so the intention is to get to read the content and not spend hours trying to navigate around.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. To create a hyper link to a section of your word document you first have to know about book marks. Bookmarks are place holders in your word document that you highlight and then assign a hyper link to. Sound complicated? Well its not, follow step two and I will show you how.

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   Start off by highlighting what ever text you want tag on your page. Then go to the top of the menu and Click on INSERT BOOKMARK.

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   From there you will prompted by a window where you can type in the name of your bookmark. It is very important to remember that you can not have spaces in the name. Once you named the bookmark click ADD and close it.

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   From there choose any text on the page you want to link that bookmark to. In this case I have a table of contents I want to link that section of the page to, so I would go up to the top of the page and highlight the text that I want to tag, then click insert hyperlink.

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   After you click the insert hyperlink tab, a window will open up Click on the "place within this document button" then choose the name of the title you just created, and click OK. Once you do that you will notice that the text turned into a hyperlink that you can click on to bring you to the section of the page you just tagged. FYI it is important to note that sometimes the hyper link requires you to hold CTRL and then click. To disable that go to TOOLS-->OPTIONS-->EDIT TAB--> AND uncheck "Use CTRL + Click to follow hyperlink".

Resources

• HOW TO CREATE A WATERMARK IN WORD
• HOW TO PRINT ENVELOPES IN WORD

[princessbrooke]

on 7/7/2009 Good job covering all the bases! I was going to write something about disabling CTRL-click to follow a hyperlink but I see that you've beat me to it!