Creating Hyperlinks in Native Documents

One task you perform as you work in a native document is creating hyperlinks. The hyperlink may point to another Web site, to another section on your site, to another web page on your site, and so on.

Creating a hyperlink in a native document is different from creating a hyperlink in Contributor. In Contributor, you use the Link wizard, which walks you through the process of creating a hyperlink and introduces you to the different types of links that you can create (see Link Wizard).

In a native document, you use the method available in the application that is associated with that document to create a link. For example, in Microsoft Word 2003, you click Insert, then select Hyperlink, enter the address to link to, and click OK. The process may vary from one program to another. Therefore, this section does not explain how to create a link in a native document, but, rather, what to put in as a value for the link (which, in your application, may be referred to as the link address, URL, or target file).

There are three ways to create a link to another part of your Web site: