Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Editing Hyperlinks

Links go bad. Files get moved around or are deleted. Web sites come and go. When this happens, you need to be able to change or delete your hyperlinks. Again, Word 2000 makes this an easy task. Imagine you want to change a hyperlink from http://www.microsoft.com to http://home.microsoft.com. Here's how:

1. Right-click anywhere over the hyperlink and choose Hyperlink, Edit Hyperlink. (Do not click on the hyperlink—this activates the link.) Alternatively, you can use the keyboard arrow keys to place the cursor anywhere in the hyperlinked text and choose Insert, Hyperlink from the menu, toolbar, or using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+K. You do not need to select all the display text.

2. Figure 11.13 shows you the Edit Hyperlink box. Your ...