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Ten Minute Guide to Access 97
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Ten Minute Guide to Access 97

by Faithe Wempen
December 1996
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 56m
English
Que
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Inserting Hyperlinks Into an Access Object

There are two ways to add a hyperlink to an Access database. The first is to create a field in a table and set its Data Type as Hyper-link. Then any text that you enter into that field becomes a hyperlink that you can click to open a specified Web page. For instance, in Figure 27.3 I'm setting up a Breeders Home Page field in my Dogs table, to hold the URLs for the home pages of the breeders from which I bought my dogs. Then, as you can see in Figure 27.4, I can enter URLs into that field that immediately become underlined hyperlinks.

Figure 27.3. By setting the Data Type to Hyperlink, I'm telling Access that any data entered in this field is a URL.

Figure 27.4. Any data entered into a field ...
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