How to Insert Web Links into Microsoft Word

1. Type your blog text into Microsoft Word.
2. Highlight the word or words with your cursor that you want to display for your link.
3. Open your web browser and navigate to the web page to which you want to link.
4. Highlight the web address with your cursor.
5. Click on “Edit” in your web browser and then “Copy”.
6. Go back to your Word document. Click on “Insert” and then “Hyperlink…”
7. Click in the field called “Address:”.
8. Hold down your “Ctrl” key and type the letter “V” to paste in the address.
9. Click on “OK”.

When I am finished writing, I copy and paste all the text (with any hyperlinks) into the blog.

This same procedure works in most e-mail programs also. It is pretty useful if you want to send someone a link that wraps to more than one line. If you send an e-mail to someone with a link wrapped to more than one line, their e-mail may put a hard return at the end of the line so that the link does not work. This procedure will fix it so it works. When you send an e-mail with a link like this, your e-mail program may ask if you want to send it as plain text or web page (html) format. Select the option that either says web page or html.

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