Hyperlinks

A hyperlink is text or a graphic that, when clicked, displays other information. Excel enables you to create two kinds of hyperlinks:

  • A link to a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which is the Internet address of a document or individual. Excel makes it easy to create links to two types of URLs:

    • http:// links to a Web page on a Web server.

    • mailto: links to an e-mail address.

  • A link to another document on your hard disk or network.

By default, hyperlinks appear as colored, underlined text (Figure 16).

Figure 16. A hyperlink appears as blue, underlined text. When you point to it, the mouse pointer turns into a hand with a pointing finger and a ScreenTip appears.

Tip

  • Although you can create a link to any document on your hard disk or accessible ...

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