Create or edit a hyperlink in Office for Mac

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Word automatically creates a hyperlink for you when you press Enter or the Spacebar after you type a URL, such as http://www.contoso.com.

If you want to create a link to text or a picture, or a specific place in a document, you can do that too.

Link to a file, Web page, or blank email message

Select the text or picture to use as a link, and then click Insert > Hyperlink.
In the Insert Hyperlink box, do one of the following:
- To link to a Web page or file, click Web Page or File, and then in the Address box, type a URL or click Select to browse to a file.
- To link to a specific place within the document, click This Document, and then select the location for the link (such as the top of the document or to a specific heading).
- To link to a blank email message, click Email Address, and type an email address and a subject for the message.
  
  Tip: To change the ScreenTip that appears when you rest the pointer over the hyperlink, click ScreenTip and then type the text. If you don't specify a tip, Word uses the path or address of the file as the tip.
Click OK.

Create a hyperlink (bookmark) to a specific place in a document

Creating bookmarks is a two-step process: you mark the link destination, and then you add the hyperlink. The hyperlink can be within a document or between documents.

Step 1: Mark the link destination

First, insert a bookmark or use a heading style to mark a location. Heading styles work only when you’re linking to a location in the current document.

Insert a bookmark

In the current document or the document you want to link to, do this:

Select the text to which you want to assign a bookmark, or click where you want to insert a bookmark.
Click Insert >Bookmark.
Under Bookmark name, type a name.

Bookmark names must begin with a letter and can contain numbers. You can't include spaces in a bookmark name, but you can use the underscore character to separate words — for example, First_heading.
Click Add.

Apply a heading style

When you’re linking to a location in the same document, you can apply one of the built-in heading styles to the text at the location you want to go to. In the current document, do the following:

Select the text to which you want to apply a heading style.
Click Home > Styles Pane, and select the style you want.

For example, if you selected text you want to style as a main heading, click the style called Heading 1 in the Apply a style gallery.

Step 2: Add a link to a location in the current document

Select the text or object to display as the hyperlink.
Click Insert > Hyperlink.
Click This Document, and then click to expand Headings or Bookmarks depending on what you want to link to.
Click the heading or bookmark you want to link to, and then click OK.

Turn off automatic hyperlinks

If you do not want Word to automatically create hyperlinks in your document as you type, you can turn this off.

On the Word menu, click Preferences > AutoCorrect (under Authoring and Proofing Tools).
Click AutoFormat as You Type, and then clear the Internet and network paths with hyperlinks check box.

In an Excel worksheet, you can create a hyperlink to a Web page, another document, an email address, or a specific place within the Excel worksheet.

Create a hyperlink to a Web page

Select the cell or object that you want to make into a hyperlink.
Click the Insert tab, and then click Hyperlink.
Click the Web Page or File tab, and then enter an address in the Address box.

You can also click Select and browse to the address you want.
Click OK.

Create a hyperlink to a document or an email address

Select the cell or object that you want to make into a hyperlink.
Click the Insert tab, and then click Hyperlink.
Do one of the following:
- Click the This Document tab, type a cell reference or select a place in the document, and then click OK.
- Click the Email Address tab, enter an email address or choose from recently used email addresses, and then click OK.

Create a hyperlink to a specific place in the document

Select the cell or object that you want to make into a hyperlink.
Click the Insert tab, and then click Hyperlink.
Click the This Document tab, type a cell reference or select a place in the document, and then click OK.

Edit a hyperlink

Hold down CONTROL, click the hyperlink, and then click Edit Hyperlink.
Make the changes that you want, and then click OK.

You can create a hyperlink from text or from an object, such as a picture, graph, shape, or WordArt and link to a web page, a slide in the same presentation, a different presentation, and even email addresses from the Insert Hyperlink dialog. You can click hyperlinks and view their ScreenTips when you play your presentation as a slide show.

Open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box

In the Normal view, select the text, shape, or picture that you want to use as a hyperlink.
On the Insert tab, click Hyperlink.

The Insert Hyperlink dialog shows.

1 - Text to Display: The linked text in the document.

2 - ScreenTip: Text shown when you mouse over the linked text.

Link to a web page

For quick access to related information in another file or on a web page, on the Web Page or File tab, in the Address box, enter the address of the web page or the file you want to link to.

Link to a slide in the same presentation

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click This Document.
Under Select a place in this document, click the slide you want to link to.

Link to a different presentation

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click Web Page or File.
Click Select and then click the presentation or file you want to link to.

Note: PowerPoint for Mac can't link to a specific slide on another presentation.

Link to email addresses

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click Email Address.
In the Email address box, type the email address that you want to link to, or in the Recently used email addresses box, click an email address.
In the Subject box, type the subject of the email message.

Format a hyperlink

Select and then Ctrl+click or right-click the link you want to format, and then click Font.
In the Font box, change the font type, style, size, color and any other effects as you like.