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Creating Links to your Documents (or Media)
• Type-in text that you will use as a hyperlink to the document or media
o Select the text, like the words: Reflection
o Right click on the selected text and choose Hyperlink
o In the Hyperlink Window, just click on the document that you want to
link the selected text to.
Note: You should already be inside the website folder where your
web page is saved when the Hyperlink Window opens and the
Existing File or Web Page button on the left should be selected.
o The filename of the linked document or media clip will appear in the
Address: window at the bottom
o Click OK
• Changing Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink Text Colors
Sometimes when you turn text into a hyperlink, the text is hard to see because the
color is changed. You can fix this….
o On the Page Layout tab, in the Themes group, click Theme Colors
o Click Create New Theme Colors
o Under Theme colors, select the colors that you want to use for Hyperlinks
and Followed Hyperlinks
o In the Name box, type a name for the new color theme.
o Click Save.
[In 2003: If you want to change the appearance of all text hyperlinks in a document,
do the following:]
• Open the document that contains the hyperlinks you want to change.
• On the Formatting toolbar, click Styles and Formatting .
• Do one of the following:
o To change the appearance of hyperlinks, in the Pick formatting to
apply box, right-click the Hyperlink style, and then click Modify.
o To change the appearance of followed hyperlinks, in the Pick
formatting to apply box, right-click the FollowedHyperlink style,
and then click Modify.
o Note If the Hyperlink or FollowedHyperlink styles do not appear in
the Pick formatting to apply box, in the Show box, click All Styles.
• Select the formatting options that you want, or click Format, and then click
Font to see more options.
• To use the modified Hyperlink or Followed Hyperlink style in new documents based
on the same template, select the Add to template check box in the Modify Style
dialog box.
• You can also use themes (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look
for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.) to change the appearance of
hyperlinks and other elements in your document or Web page.