Converting a Word document into hypertext link

I have been sent a Word document with titles underlined in blue, but they won't open into a hyperlink. How can I convert these to an url, please?

Thanks for your help.

Antoinette

 

a few things.
1. CTRL + Click usually opens links from office docs
2. it may not be a link, rather, just a pleasantly blue underlined formatted text string.
3. if the url is not embedded in the text, then you can't convert text to an (unknown) url unless that text string is a wellformed HTTP anchor that resolves to a valid domain. The sort of quantum mechanics to predict where a word(s) should be hyperlinked to has yet to be developed

 

Thanks. I found that if I search in the address bar with several items they come up to a website, but when I try to use the website url and put it in the Word document it does not convert it to an url that can be opened. I sent it to a computer guru in an email and she can open each and every one of them, but we can't find a way to put what is in the email into the Word document. In Outlook Express you can highlight it and go to the globe and say create a hyperlink, but it does not work in the Word document... that's what I need to find a way to do.

Thanks.

A

 

standard way of doing this is to just copy and paste the url to the word doc. After hitting enter at the end of the url, word embeds it as a URL. Then you can highlight the url as if to change the displayed text and actually change the text. When you hit space or enter, the word will be hyperlinked.

 

see example vid:
http://screencast.com/t/OGE1NGU2M

 

Office 2007 (Word) has quite a few hyperlink options, and I believe it can insert a hyperlink in the manner you described. To access the commands, right-click your Ribbon, and click on the Customize QuickAccess Toolbar link. When the screen opens, at the top of the left-hand column, in “Choose commands from,” select All Commands, and there you will find the following 7 hyperlink commands: Insert Hyperlink, Copy Hyperlink, Edit Hyperlink, Open Hyperlink, Paste as Hyperlink, Select Hyperlink, and Remove Hyperlink.

 

Post Script to my above post. I just tried this again, using my Word 2007, to make sure it actually works, and it does, but only if the text you type is already an actual url, website address. It might work with another kind of link (as you described) but that I'm not sure of.

 

Links do not have to be a web address, although Word does not automatically recognize them as hyperlinks by merely typing the link. They can link to other files on your computer, to Bookmarks in a Word file (either in the same file or another Word file), even to shortcuts on the desktop. Here's an example of a link to a file: C:\Users\David-d530\Documents\Notes.docx

Right click is a convenient way to add, edit, open, copy, or remove hyperlinks. Also, Ctrl/K is a shortcut to add a hyperlink. I use it a lot.