In Open Office Writer there is also an option to create bookmarks from all of your H1 headings that appear in the sidebar of the PDF reader they're using if it supports it. But yeah, the table of contents is a good thing to have at the top of your eBook if it has many different sections, pages or chapters so people can navigate to different parts of it quickly. You can also set some other options as well such as whether it opens in a new window or note (_blank or _self etc) but that's just basic ahref HTML. There is an option in that you can just click on after you've highlighted any text to create an external link. I'm still a bit touch and go with it and just wing my way through like you lol Ah yes I use Apache Open Office Writer to write my eBooks as you probably know and not M$ word.
I'm sure if you check the Wiki or just the manual that comes with Word by clicking on the ? icon and opening the Help files it will show you in there somewhere how you can do it. These are sort of similar and just as helpful to readers to quickly find there way around and navigate through your PDF.
Idealmike Ah yes I use Apache Open Office Writer to write my eBooks as you probably know and not M$ word.
One more thing… linking externally from your ebook means you can also add affiliate links… think about it, what an awesome way to generate some affiliates! Offer a free ebook with great quality information and drop a few affiliate links in! I hope you found this helpful, yes it might be some very basic stuff for a lot of you, but for me it is newly learned and oh so helpful. Then you can also link internally but instead of choosing one of the headings you can find your bookmarked text. Or alternatively you can link internally by choosing link within this document, there you can choose to link to headings that you have added, so be sure to use heading within your Word document.Īlternatively you can create bookmarks for certain sections by highlighting them, then you click on “insert” and bookmark, name it and bookmark it. You can then choose to link externally to a website and add the url in the bottom of that window.
So how to do it is simple, you just highlight the text you want to link and then right click on the text and click on Hyperlink. For example if I use a technical term in my writing I won’t always want to write an explanation right there, but instead make it clickable either to an external Wiki link or perhaps to or I could even write an explanation at the end of my ebook and link internally to that. I can see how it will also be brilliant to help my readers move around my content easily in other ways too. One thing that I struggled with was how to make a clickable content page and I recently figured that out and I am oh so chuffed. I use Word to create my content and then I convert it into a pdf document. I have been messing around with Word now that I am into writing and publishing my own ebooks for sale. However, if you don’t want hyperlinks inserted automatically, you can disable that feature as well.How to Add Hyperlinks to Word - oh so easy and so useful! RELATED: How to Disable Hyperlinks in Microsoft Wordīy default, hyperlinks are automatically inserted when you type email addresses and URLs in Word documents. But, the Ctrl+Shift+F9 keyboard shortcut works in all versions of Word and might be the easiest way. The method you use depends on your preference. There are different ways to get rid of hyperlinks in text pasted into Word documents. To remove a single hyperlink, right-click on the hyperlink and select “Remove Hyperlink” on the popup menu. If the hyperlink-including text is already in your document, select the hyperlinked text and press Ctrl+Shift+F9.Īll the hyperlinks are removed from the selected text and the original formatting is preserved. Remove Hyperlinks from Text Already in Your Document However, the Normal style is applied to the text, so you’ll need to change the fonts and other layouts if that’s not the formatting you want.