Create hyperlinks from one Word document to another

by Mary Ann Richardson | Oct 03, 2006 7:00:00 AM

Tags: Word processors, Enterprise software, Microsoft Office, Mary Ann Richardson, Process Management, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Suite Word Tips Newsletter

Takeaway: You can link your documents together—hyperlink, that is. Mary Ann Richardson explains how you can create hyperlinks to refer your readers back to information in different Word documents.

Word makes it easy to hyperlink to information in other documents. Let's say you're preparing a document on the latest trends in organizational process management. You've already written an introductory article on the subject, and now you want your readers to be able to hyperlink to the previous article where you defined process management. To hyperlink your document, follow these steps:

1. Open both documents in Word and go to Window | Arrange All.
2. Select the definition of the term process management in your previous document.
3. Right-click the selected text, then click and drag selected text to the end of this sentence in the new document: This article describes the latest trends in process management.
4. Release the mouse button and select Create Hyperlink Here.

When readers come to the term "process management" in your new document, they can press [Ctrl], and then click to hyperlink to the term in the previous article.

Note that if you are publishing this article on the Web, you should save both of the articles' files to the same folder to avoid getting any broken links.

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