Linking Your Pages To Other Pages—Near and Far

You can link your own pages to each other, or to pages anywhere on the Internet. You use the same basic operation no matter where the other page is.

Step-By-Step Method for Creating Links

1. Select (highlight with cursor) the text you want to link to another page.
   
2. Click the Link button on your toolbar.
   
3. You will see the Link Properties dialog box. Under "Link to page location or local file," you specify the location you want to link to.
   
   • If you are linking to another page of your own (such as linking your index page to your syllabus page), click on Choose File. Find the correct file, then highlight it and click Open. When the Link Properties dialog box reappears, click OK.
     
   • If you are linking to a URL outside of your own pages, be sure to get the location address exactly right. Go out on the web to that location, copy the address, and paste it in the Link Properties dialog box.
     
4. Click OK. Your link should appear in blue, underlined, in your page.

Shortcut Method for Creating Links

You can create a link by dragging and dropping from other windows. For example, you can highlight a link on an existing web page and drag and drop it anywhere on your page. (To do this, you will need to resize your program windows so that more than one window is visible on your screen.)

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Elmhurst College
Last updated 2 August 1999