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Creating hyperlinks

Creating hyperlinks

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Creating hyperlinks

Often as the editor or writer, you also want to include the URL or the e-mail address of some kind of text that you're entering, because this document will be exported to PDF that people will download, and they'll want to be able to click on those links. So you can do that now in InCopy. You have been able to do since CS4. Let's see how you do that. I have checked out the story on the left-hand side. I am going to zoom in with Ctrl+Plus or Command+Plus a bit. So let's say, for example, that we want hansel&petal to link to the hansel&petal web site. There are two different ways to do that. One is a panel and one is a menu command and either one works. So the Hyperlinks panel is part of the Advanced Workspace, which we've been working with throughout this title. It's toward the bottom, right above Conditional Text. So Hyperlinks panel you can see is actually combined with Cross-References because they are kind of related, and these two icons at the bottom, the New Hyperlink icon looks…

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