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Hyperlinking documents in PageMaker
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These four supertips deal with adding links to your Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 online documents:
* Learn how to create anchors and simple page-to-page links.
* Explore linking to external URLs using the Hyperlinks palette.
* Drag links from Netscape Navigator directly onto elements on PageMaker document pages.
* Create automatic tables of contents and index links for PageMaker documents that are exported to Adobe Acrobat® PDF files.
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Create the destination for your link.
Set the destination or "anchor" for your link by selecting a range of text or a graphic on a page (a), choose New Anchor from the Hyperlinks palette pop-up menu (b), and name the anchor to add it to the Hyperlinks palette (c). Repeat this step for each page destination you'll be specifying.
Establish the good working habit of adding all of the destinations (anchors and URLs) for your links first. Then go through the document and create sources (or links) for those destinations. You can set many sources to point to one destination.
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Create the source of your link so that you can test the link in PageMaker.
Go to the page containing the text or graphic that you want to make the source of the link (a). Select the text or graphic, and then click the Anchor button next to the anchor you created in the Hyperlinks palette. Name the source to your link (b). To test the link, click the Hand tool in the tool box (c). Any links you've created appear with a blue outline around them. (This outline indicates the links only when you're in Browse mode in PageMaker. When links are exported to PDF files, they appear as you designed them in PageMaker. In HTML, they adopt the Browser default link style.)
You can link from your PageMaker document to any URL, whether it's a path to a local file or to a location on the Web. And you can add many URLs to your palette at once by importing them from a file or from a location on the Web. Check the next step for details.
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Set the destination for your link.
Choose New URL, Import URL from File, or Import URL from Web from the Hyperlinks palette pop-up menu (a).
When you choose New URL, you type the complete URL in the dialog box and it gets added to the Hyperlinks palette. Go to the page that contains the source text or image (b). Select the source and click the Anchor icon next to the destination URL in the Hyperlinks palette. Name your source to complete the link.
When you import URLs from a file or the Web, or drop a link to them from a browser, all of the URL links from that HTML page are added to your Hyperlinks palette.
Tip: Use the Text tool, not the Pointer tool, to select text to create sources or anchors. Use the Pointer tool to select images for sources or anchors.
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