Goodwill Community Foundation creating
opportunities for a better life in some
documents you may want to include a web
address or an email address you can
format these as hyperlinks so people can
access the information directly from
word for example I'd like to add an
email address in the contact section of
this newsletter so I'll just type the
address here
and when I press the space bar or the
enter key on my keyboard word will
automatically format the text as a
hyperlink you can do the same thing with
a web address in this example we'll add
a link to a pool safety website
and there we go
creating links automatically doesn't
always work though for example if you
want the text to be something other than
the web address in those situations you
can format existing text as a hyperlink
in this example I'd like to add a link
to the city of Orlando's website so you
can go directly to the website while
reading the document authors select the
text that I want to turn into a link
then right-click and choose hyperlink
you can also use the hyperlink command
on the insert tab every hyperlink has
two parts the most important part is the
address which could be a web address an
email address a file or even a location
in the same document just use the
buttons here to navigate your options
in this example we're going to enter ww
city of orlando net
the second part of a hyperlink is the
display text which is the thing people
will actually see when they read the
document the display text can be the
same as the address or just whatever you
want when you're ready click OK
and now the text is formatted as a
hyperlink you know it's a good idea to
test all of your links before sending
out your document just to make sure they
work normally when you're in a web
browser you could just click a link to
open it but in Word you have to hold
ctrl on your keyboard while you click
just like it says in the instructions
here
okay this website open correctly which
means our hyperlink is working let's go
back to our document for one last thing
if you want to remove a hyperlink all
you have to do is right click then make
your selection from the menu you can
also choose edit hyperlink to make
adjustments the display text or the
address so now you know two different
ways to create hyperlinks in Word by
converting the text yourself or using
the automatic formatting feature