Explore the Word Hyperlink Feature

Why we need the Wordhyperlink? Yes, linking documents together.

You can hyperlinkdocuments together so that when someone read and see the link, they can click on ahyperlink and it will take them to a previousdocument that is referred to in the instant document.

Word hyperlinks feature makes it easy to link to from one document to the other. Also, you can prevent readers from changing the hyperlinks.

To insert Word hyperlinks in a document

Open two Word documents.

From the Window menu, click Arrange All. You will see both documents are open in one screen.

Select (highlight) the text term (e.g. Test) in your first document. The highlighted text will appear as a text link in another document later.

Right-click and drag the selected text to any place of the new documentthat you wish to insert the hyperlink. You will see something like this:

Release the mouse button and select Create Hyperlink Here. The previously "selected word" will appear in new document as a hyperlink. When the mouse move to the hyperlink word, press the Ctrl key and then click the hyperlink word in your document. You will prompt a warning message as follow:

lick on the Yes button will bring you to the previous Word document.

To prevent from changing Word hyperlinks

From the Tools menu, click Options.

From the Options dialog box displayed, click the Edit tab.

Under Editing options section, clear the check mark in the “Use CTRL + Click to follow hyperlink” check box.

Click OK.

Now, when the reader clicks on the hyperlink, the page will link directly to the location of another page. They will have to press Ctrl + link to edit it.

Microsoft Word Add-in

What is an Add-in and Microsoft Word add-in?

An add-in is an application that can be installed to give additional functionality for the particular program. Add-ins for Word are specific to Word and cannot be used with any other application.

A Word add-in has the file extension (".dot") and is a template that is always loaded when Word is open.

There is a lot of third party Word add-ins available for free download from websites. But remember that the more add-ins you have installed, the longer Word will take to open.

Word has several add-ins that come as standard in the following locations:

Word 2003 - C:-Program Files-Microsoft Office-Office11-Library

Word 2002 - C:-Program Files-Microsoft Office-Office10-Library

Word 2000 - C:-Windows-Application Data-Microsoft Addins

Word 97 - C:-Program Files-Microsoft Office-Office-Library

Installing a Word Add-in

From the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-ins.

From the Templates and Add-ins dialog box, click on the Attach button will bring out the Attach Template dialog box.

Select/browse to the appropriate template that you wish to attach and click on the Open button. This will attach a different template to the active document.

Click on the Add button will loads a template or installed add-in program that doesn't appear in the list. If the template or add-in is listed, select the item's check box to load it.

The Remove button will removes the selected template or add-in from the list.

Uninstalling the Add-in

From the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-ins.

From the Templates and Add-ins dialog box, if the add-in you want to uninstall is in the list then untick the corresponding check box.

Click the OK button to uninstall the add-in.

Remove the Add-in

From the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-ins.

From the Templates and Add-ins dialog box, clear the check box that you wish to remove the particular Add-in.

Click the Remove button to remove the add-in.

Note: If you remove a Word Add-in the changes are not saved until you actually close Word completely.