All right in today's foundational technology skills tutorial, we're going
to talk about hyperlinks and I'm going to show you really quickly
how you can make one. So first of all, I'm just going to show
you what a hyperlink is, so that you understand how to use it.
So let's say that I go to a website like Crash Course
and I want to get this website url and paste it somewhere else, so that when
someone clicked on these words, they would be taken back
to this website. So the way I could do that is by copying
the link and then pasting it onto another document. So you'll see here
that this link has already been auto generated as a hyperlink and one of
the ways that I can tell it is a hyperlink is because it is
colored blue, which is the generic color for a
hyperlink. And you'll see when I hover my mouse
over it and click, that a little thumbnail drops down and
that tells me that this is a live hyperlink. So what
does that mean? If I click on this, it's going to take me
directly to that website. All right so we have a live hyperlink
here that's already been pre-created for us,
but we can still do some things with it in order to further customize it.
So for example, you might not want this to read this entire website url
and instead you might just want it to say, 'Crash Course.' So the way I could do
that is by clicking on the hyperlink and then
I'm going to go over here to the 'Edit Link' button
and for the text, I'm going to change the text to just say,
'Crash Course.' When I click 'Apply,' you'll see that it is still a blue hyperlink,
it will still take me to the Crash Course website, but now I get to
customize what the text actually looks like.
Similarly, you could also change the url, so if you did not actually want to
direct people to Crash Course and instead wanted them to go to
National Geographic, you could type that link instead,
select it, and then rather than taking you to Crash Course,
now you'll see that someone would be taken to nationalgeographic.com.
Okay so with this case the hyperlink was already partially created for us,
so how do we actually just create one from scratch? So I'm going to go ahead
and delete this 'Crash Course' here and now I'm just going to write a
website where I want somebody to go. So here I'll start with something like
dictionary.com. So I'm going to type www.dictionary.com.
And you'll notice in this document, because it's smart, that it's already
detected where I want to go and it's already created a hyperlink that's going
to take me to dictionary.com. All right, but what would happen if I
just type something like dictionary.com? Would that work too? No. When I click off
of it, it doesn't create its own hyperlink, so now I'm actually going to
need to create one. So the way I'm going to do that is
by highlighting over where I want to create the
hyperlink and then I have a few different options for how I can add one
here. One choice is that I could go up here
and I could click 'Insert' and go to 'Insert Link.' You'll see that's
going to give me the same option, where I can customize the text and I can
also customize the link, so here i'm going to send it to
dictionary.com and click 'Apply' and I'll have a hyperlink. The other
option is that I highlight the text and I'm going to either
right click or put two finger clicks, depending on what type of computer
you're using, and I'm going to go down to 'Link'
and then again, I'll be given the option to create
a hyperlink. And the last option is for me to go up to one of the shortcut keys,
find the insert link icon, click it, and again you'll see that that's going
to pop up my menu. Click 'Apply,' you'll see I've created a
hyperlink. You'll remember from before that you can actually
hyperlink anything. So for example you could just say,
"Go to the online dictionary," highlight "online dictionary,"
create a link out of that, click 'Apply,' and that will turn "online
dictionary" into a live link. One last thing I want
to show you here about hyperlinks is that they're not limited to text only.
You can also create a hyperlink out of an image.
So here for example, you would just click on the image
and then you can go through the same different options in order to create
that hyperlink. So I could go up to my shortcut here,
click 'Insert Link' and then I can write the website address,
dictionary.com, click it, click 'Apply,' and when somebody
clicks on the image, they'll see that there's a
drop down and they can click on the link and it will take them to dictionary.com.
All right I hope this video helped you understand a little bit more about the
basics of how to create a hyperlink.