Getting Down To Work - Microsoft Word

In the Insert bar, you can add hyperlinks directly to your document. 

Once you know the address you wish to insert (you may have copied and pasted it from your browser as we discussed in Unit 2), choose the spot in your document where you would like to add the link and then go to the Insert bar at the top of the page. 

Near the middle part of the ribbon you will see an icon and the word “Hyperlink”.  Click on “Hyperlink" and a box will open up.

Toward the bottom of the box is a section entitled “address” – paste or type the url (Web address) in here. 

At the top of the box is area called “text to be displayed”.  If you leave this empty, then the actual url will appear in your text.  If you prefer to make some other text link to this address you would type it in here. 

For example, leaving the “text to be displayed” box blank, will cause the hyperlink to look like this:  www.col.org 

If you type in some text in the “text to be displayed” box, you can have a link to the same page that looks like this:  Commonwealth of Learning. 

Click OK and the link will appear underlined and in blue font in your document.