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VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York - VISN 2
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Adding Links
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You can't beat the convenience of inserting website links into an
e-mailed document, such as with this newsletter: you type in a web address, and all the reader has to do is click on the blue underlined link to jump to the website.
But the web address has to be exactly correct: if you've looked up a web site before, you know that one letter or number incorrect can be a pothole on the information superhighway.
If you do type a hyperlink incorrectly, it can be frustrating to fix mistakes in hyperlinks in Microsoft Word. Common sense tells you to click on a link to fix it, but instead this takes you to the website: not what you are trying to do. Usually you have to retype the entire link, and that introduces the possibility of the same mistake happening again! Here are some alternate ways to fix hyperlinks in your Word and e-mail documents:
- Find the correct link someplace else, like in another e-mail or in your web browser's Address box. Highlight the link to select it, then use the Edit menu to Copy and Paste the correct link into your document.
- If you only need to fix one or two letters in a link, use your mouse's right button to click on the link.
Choose Hyperlink > Edit Hyperlink, and then correct the link in the topmost box.
- Before you send out a document containing a link, click on the link from your document to check it. If you come up with a generic blank web page with a 404 error, you know you've got a problem.
What Not To Do
It is possible to save a web page from your web browser using File > Save As, but this takes a static snapshot of the page. If the page is later updated on the web, this will not be reflected in the version of the page you have saved.
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| Reviewed/Updated Date: February 7, 2006 |
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