Links in word doc

You can add hyperlinks to your document that give your readers instant access to information in another part of the same document. The hyperlink can be text or graphics. By using hyperlinks, you can provide information to your readers without repeating the same information on different pages.

To add links that jump from one part of a document to another part of the same document, mark the destination and then add a link to it.

Mark the destination

Mark the hyperlink destination with a bookmark or a heading style.

Insert a bookmark

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

Note: Bookmark names need to begin with a letter. They can include both numbers and letters, but not spaces. If you need to separate words, you can use an underscore ( _ )—for example, First_heading.
Click Add.

Apply a heading style

Headings are automatically marked as a destination. All you need to do is apply one of the built-in heading styles.

Select the text to which you want to apply a heading style.
On the Home tab, click the style you want.

Add the link

After you’ve marked the destination, you’re ready to add the link.

Select the text or object you want to use as a hyperlink.
Right-click and then click Hyperlink .
Under Link to, click Place in This Document.
In the list, select the heading or bookmark that you want to link to.

Note: To customize the Screen Tip that appears when you rest the pointer over the hyperlink, click ScreenTip, and then type the text that you want.

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To link to a website or document, highlight the text. Click the «Insert» tab, then «Link». Find your file or paste your website link. Click «OK».
Click «E-mail Address» in the Hyperlink menu. Enter an email address and subject, then click «OK».
Click «Insert», then «Bookmark» to save a position in the document. Click «Place in This Document» in the Hyperlink menu, then click the bookmark.

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Select the text or image that you want to turn into a link. You can turn any text or image in your document into a link. Highlight the text or click the image that you want to convert into a hyperlink.
- To insert an image into your document, click the Insert tab and select «Pictures.» You’ll be able to browse your computer for an image file to add. You can also insert clip art to use as a link.
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Press ⌘ Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows). This opens the Insert Hyperlink window. You can also get to this menu by clicking the Insert tab and then clicking the Link button in the toolbar.
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Select Existing File or Web Page from the left panel. More options will appear in the right panel.
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Select a file or enter a web address. You can choose to link to an existing document, a new document, or a website.
- To link to a website or a file that’s accessible on the web, type or paste the full address (including the «https://» at the beginning) into the «Address» field near the bottom of the window.
- To link to a file on your computer or local network, select that file in the center panel. If it’s in the current folder, click Current folder to open its contents. If you opened it recently, click Recent Files to browse those. You can also use the menus at the top to navigate to the correct folder and select the file.
- To create a new blank document instead of opening a certain file, click Create a new document in the left menu, then choose a location for the document.
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Set a ScreenTip (optional). You can change the text that appears when the user hovers the cursor over the link by clicking the ScreenTip button at the top-right corner and specifying your text.
- If you don’t change it, the screen tip will display the website address or file path.
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Click OK to save your link. To open the link within the Word document, hold Command (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) and click the link.
- If you want to remove the hyperlink, right-click the hyperlink and select Remove Hyperlink.^[2]

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Select the text or click the image you want to turn into an email link. You can use any text or image in your document. When you’re finished with this method, clicking the selected text or image will bring up a new email message to the address of your choice.
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Press ⌘ Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows). This opens the Insert Hyperlink window. You can also get to this menu by clicking the Insert tab and then clicking the Link button in the toolbar.
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Click E-Mail Address in the left panel. This allows you to set up the blank message.
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Enter the e-mail address and subject. This will be the address that the reader will be sending the email to. What you enter into the «Subject» field will be automatically filled in for the reader, but they will be able to change it if they want.
- If you use Outlook, you’ll see recently used email addresses in the field at the bottom of the window. Feel free to select one of those.
- Some mail apps, especially web-based email apps, may not recognize the subject line.
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Set a ScreenTip (optional). You can change the text that appears when the user hovers the cursor over the link by clicking the ScreenTip button at the top-right corner and specifying your text. If you don’t change it, the screen tip will show the email address.
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Click OK to save your link. To open the link within the Word document, hold Command (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) and click the link.
- If you want to remove the hyperlink, right-click the hyperlink and select Remove Hyperlink.

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Place your cursor at the location you want to link to. You can use the Bookmark tool to create links to specific spots in your document. This is great for tables of contents, glossaries, and citations. You can highlight a portion of text, select an image, or just place your cursor in the spot you want.
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Click the Insert tab. It’s in the menu bar at the top of Word, between Home and Draw.
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Click the Bookmark icon. It’s in the toolbar at the top of Word in the «Links» section.
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Enter a name for the bookmark. Make sure the name is descriptive enough that you’ll be able to recognize it. This is especially important if you are using a lot of bookmarks or more than one person is editing the document.
- Bookmark names have to start with letters but can also contain numbers. You can’t use spaces, but you can use underscores instead (e.g. «Chapter_1»).
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Click Add to insert the bookmark. Bookmarks will appear on the page surrounded by brackets. You won’t see the bookmark on the page if you’re using the current version of Word, but in earlier versions, it may be surrounded by brackets.
- If you want to see brackets around the bookmark so you don’t forget where you placed it, click the File menu, select Options, and click Advanced in the left panel. Then, scroll down the right panel and check the box next to «Show bookmarks» under the «Show document content» header.
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Select the text or image you want to create the link from. Highlight the text or click the image that you want to turn into a link to your bookmark.
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Press ⌘ Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows). This opens the Insert Hyperlink window. You can also get to this menu by clicking the Insert tab and then clicking the Link button in the toolbar.
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Click Place in This Document in the left panel. This displays a navigation tree with your heading styles and bookmarks.
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Select the bookmark you want to link to. Expand the «Bookmarks» tree if it isn’t already and select the bookmark you created. You can also select from heading styles you’ve applied throughout the document.
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Set a ScreenTip (optional). To change the text that appears when the user rests the cursor over the link, click the Screen Tip button at the top-right corner. If you don’t change the text, the screen tip will display the website address or file path.
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Click OK to save your link. To test the hyperlink, hold Command (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) and click the link.
- This will recenter the view to the line on which you placed the bookmark.
- If you want to remove the hyperlink, right-click the hyperlink and select Remove Hyperlink.

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What hyperlinks are inserted into a document by default?

A link to any website or a file with a url will become a hyperlink automatically after you press the space bar, tab key, or return/enter key.
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Edit>Add Hyperlink>add the link. To test the link, Ctrl+Click and it should get you there.
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Highlight the word/phrase you want to embed a link into, got into the insert tab, press link. A box that says «insert hyperlink» on the top should pop up, copy/type the link you want into the box at the bottom that says «address» and then press «ok» and you are done!

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1. Select the text or object you want to turn into a hyperlink.
2. Click the Insert tab.
3. Click the Link button in the toolbar.
4. Click Existing File or Web Page in the left and enter the URL.
5. To link to another file instead of a website, leave the «»Address»» bar blank and select the file instead.
6. Click OK.

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How to Add and Edit Links in Word Documents

Insert hyperlinks quickly

Updated on February 11, 2021

What to Know

Highlight text you want to hyperlink. Right-click it and choose Link. Alternatively, select Insert > Links > Link.
Then, enter the URL in the Address field.
Remove a link: Right-click the hyperlink text and choose Remove Hyperlink.

Microsoft Word is primarily used to create word processing documents, but you can also work with hyperlinks and HTML code used in websites. Learn how to insert, remove, or edit hyperlinks using Word for Microsoft 365, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, and Word 2010.

Insert Links

To link to other documents or web pages from a Word document, insert a hyperlink.

Select the text that you want to apply the hyperlink to. This can be the text of a URL, a single word, a phrase, a sentence, or a paragraph.
Right-click the text and select Link or Hyperlink to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box. Or, go to the Insert tab and select Links > Link.
In the Address field, enter the URL address of the document or website you want to link to. For online assets, the URL must include the protocol (for example, http, https, or ftp).

The Text to display text box defaults to the text you selected in step 1. You can change this text here if you like.
Select OK.
The selected text appears as a hyperlink that can be clicked to open the linked document or website.

To make changes to the link, right-click the hyperlink and select Edit Hyperlink.

Remove Hyperlinks

When you type a URL into Word, it automatically inserts a hyperlink that connects to the website. This feature is handy if you distribute documents electronically, but it can be a nuisance when printing documents.

To remove a hyperlink, right-click the link and select Remove Hyperlink.

In Word for Mac, right-click then select Hyperlink. In the slide-out menu, select Edit Hyperlink, then choose Remove Link.

More About Editing Hyperlinks

When you work in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box and the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, several other features are available on the left side of the dialog box.

Existing File or Web Page

This tab is selected by default in the Insert Hyperlink and the Edit Hyperlink dialog boxes. This tab displays the text for the hyperlink and the URL of that hyperlink

In the middle of the window, there are three tabs:

Current Folder displays files that are located in the same folder location as the current document. If you want the selected link to link to a document located in this folder, locate the file and choose it. The Address field changes to reflect the document location on your computer. The Text to display field also changes to the file address, so you may want to edit this field to change the text that displays in the Word document.
Browsed Pages shows a list of recent documents and web pages you have accessed. Select one of these as the new link destination.
Recent Files displays a list of recent files you’ve worked on in Word. This is handy if you’re working on a series of separate documents and want to create links to these files quickly.

Place in This Document

This tab displays sections and bookmarks contained in the current document. Use it to link to specific locations within the current document.

Create New Document

Go to this tab to create a new document to which the link will connect. This feature is useful if you’re creating a series of documents but haven’t created the document you want to link to. Define the name of the new document in the labeled field.

If you don’t want to edit the new document you create from here, select Edit the new document later.

Email Address

This section creates a link that will generate a new email when someone clicks it and populates several of the new email fields with the defaults you define. Enter the email address where you want the new email to be sent, and add the subject that will appear in the new email by filling in the appropriate fields.

If you have used this feature recently for other links, any email addresses you used in those will appear in the Recently used e-mail addresses list.

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We like books. But one thing that you can’t do on paper is link to another book. On that level at least, electronic media has a distinct advantage. And with Microsoft Word, it’s easy to add a hyperlink in a document.

But how does this work? In this post, we look at how to add a link in Microsoft Word, as well as how to edit and remove hyperlinks in a document.

How to Embed a Hyperlink in a Document

Whether you’re writing website copy, where hyperlinks enable navigation, or simply adding links to useful internet resources in a document, Microsoft Word makes it simple. For instance, if you type a web address and hit space or return, MS Word will automatically format it as a link.

However, most of the time, you’ll want to embed a link in the text. To do this:

Highlight the text you want to use as a link
Go to Insert > Links > Link (or right click the text and select Link)
Type the URL for the link destination into the Address field
Click OK to create your hyperlink

Link options in the contextual menu.

The highlighted text will then become a hyperlink.

To test the link, hold CTRL and left click (or right click and select Open Hyperlink). This will open the destination in your default web browser.

You can use this same process to link to another file on your computer.

To link to a file, simply select it via the Insert Hyperlink menu and click OK. Keep in mind, though, that this link will only work on your computer/network, since this is where the destination file is stored.

How to Edit Hyperlinks

You can edit a hyperlink in the same way as you would any text in a document: simply place the cursor in the hyperlinked text and type.

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Alternatively, if you right click the link you can select Edit Hyperlink. In the window that opens, you can then change both:

The text that will be used for the hyperlink
The destination of the link (i.e., file path or URL)

If you then click OK when you’re done, the link will be updated automatically.

How to Format Hyperlinks

By default, Microsoft Word formats links with blue, underlined text. However, you can edit hyperlinks with the standard formatting options, so you can use these to change the appearance of any links in a document.

And if you want to change the default hyperlink style, simply:

Open the Styles menu
Find the style named “Hyperlink”
Right click the style name and select Modify…
Apply any formatting options as required and click OK

Link formatting in the Styles menu.

This will update the default hyperlink formatting, including any links you had added to the document previously. And if you then add more new links while editing, they will all use your updated hyperlink formatting.

How to Remove a Hyperlink in Microsoft Word

To remove a hyperlink from document, you can simply delete it. But this will also remove the text you’d formatted as a link.

To remove a link and keep the text, though, you have two options.

Go to Insert > Links > Link and select Remove Link in the menu
Right click the link and select Remove Hyperlink from the menu

MS Word will then remove the link and any formatting from the selected text.

Proofreading Hyperlinks

If you have a document containing hyperlinks, why not submit it for proofreading? As well as checking your spelling, grammar and punctuation, we can make sure your links work properly, saving you from encountering any unfortunate “404 Error – Page Not Found” messages when it counts.

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For quick access to a file, to create an email, or to jump to a different spot, you can create a link in a Word document easily.

To make things easier for yourself or your reader, you can link text to items in your Word document. You may already know that you can create a hyperlink to a web page. But you can also link text to another file, an email address, or a different spot in your document.

This is handy for quickly accessing a file related to your current document, giving your reader a fast way to send your company an email, or jumping to a specific location in the document.

The process for adding these links is similar, with only some small adjustments on Windows versus Mac. So if you’re ready to make your Microsoft Word document more functional and useful, let’s get to it!

Access the Link Tool

To link a file, email, or document location, you’ll follow the same initial process to open the Insert Hyperlink tool.

On Windows, select the text and then do one of the following:

Right-click and pick Link.
Go to the Insert tab, click Links, and choose Link.

On Mac, select the text and then do one of the following:

Right-click and pick Hyperlink.
Go to the Insert tab, click Links, and choose Link.
Click Insert > Hyperlink from the menu bar.

Open a file related to your document without having to stop what you’re doing and navigate to it each time. You can link right to it!

With the Insert Hyperlink tool open, click Existing File or Web Page on the left.

Below Look In, you can select Current Folder or Recent Files. But you can also use the drop-down list, Up One Folder, or Browse for File buttons to the right.

After selecting the file from one of the above spots, you’ll see its exact location appear in the Address box. If this is the file you want, click OK.

You’ll see your text linked as indicated by the blue underlined font. To open the file, hold your Control key and click the link.

On Mac, pick Web Page or File, click Select to browse for and choose the file, and hit OK when you’re ready. You don’t have to hold the key to follow the link on Mac; just click it.

Link to an Email in a Word Document

If you link to an email address in the document, the user can then click the link, and a compose email window will open with their default email client or allow them to choose, depending on their platform.

In the Insert Hyperlink tool, click E-mail Address on the left. Complete the E-mail address field or choose a Recently used e-mail address.

Optionally, enter a Subject line which will prepopulate in the sender’s email. This can be helpful so that the recipient knows it’s related to this particular document or about a certain topic. Just note, the sender can change the subject line.

Click OK.

Like with the link to a file above, the user holds Control as they click the link to compose their email.

On Mac, the fields for linking to an email are the same, and you can click the link in the text to compose the email.

Link to a Location in a Word Document

Linking to a spot in your Word document is also convenient. The options for this type of link are a bit limited, however. You can choose the top of the document, a heading, or a bookmark.

In the Insert Hyperlink tool, click Place in This Document on the left. On the right, choose a document location. If you use headings, those will appear as selectable items. Click OK.

And as you’ve probably already guessed, hold Control and click to follow the link.

On Mac, select This Document, choose the location, and hit OK. Once more, you can click the link to follow it in Word on Mac.

More Resources With a Click in Word

Linking text in your Word document to files, emails, and locations can save you and your reader a lot of time.

For some helpful related tutorials, check out how you can follow these types of links in Word without using the Control key or how to stop Word from creating a link when you type a URL.

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Mark the destination

Insert a bookmark

Apply a heading style

Add the link

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How to Add and Edit Links in Word Documents

What to Know

Insert Links

Remove Hyperlinks

More About Editing Hyperlinks

Existing File or Web Page

Place in This Document

Create New Document

Email Address

How to Embed a Hyperlink in a Document

How to Edit Hyperlinks

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How to Format Hyperlinks

How to Remove a Hyperlink in Microsoft Word

Proofreading Hyperlinks

Access the Link Tool

Link to an Email in a Word Document

Link to a Location in a Word Document

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