Create hypertext links in a Word Processing Document

(This exercise works with Office '97 and subsequent versions.)

This exercise shows you how you can create hypertext links inside your own Microsoft Word documents. A similar technique is used to create hypertext links between web pages.

1. Create a new Microsoft Word document by saving the first three or four paragraphs of an existing document under a new name. Before each paragraph insert the phrase "Paragraph 1," "Paragraph 2," "Paragraph 3," or "Paragraph 4."

2. Select the phrase Paragraph 3 at the beginning of the third paragraph. Use the Copy command (or control C) to copy this phrase onto the clip board.

3. At the end of the first paragraph, start a new sentence with "Now skip to". Leaving the cursor where it is, use the "Paste as Hypertext" command (on the Edit menu) to paste the phrase "Paragraph 3" at the end of the phrase "Now skip to" The phrase "Paragraph 3" should appear to be blue and underlined because you used paste as hypertext instead of a regular paste.

4. Click on the underlined phrase "Paragraph 3." Notice how the cursor has moved automatically to the beginning of the third paragraph. Notice also how the web tool bar has appeared. Click on the backward arrow (the one going to the left) on the tool bar and the cursor will return to the location you came from.

5. Insert another hypertext link and test it to make sure it works.

6. Explain how you can use this idea to write a document with a summary of key points on the first page and hypertext links to more detailed explanations on other pages of the document.

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