Basic Working Procedures > Links, Anchors, Macros, Scripts and HTML

The easiest way to create hyperlink to another topic in your current project is with Drag & Drop – just select text in the editor and drag it onto the topic you want to link to in the Table of Contents.

Productivity Tip

You can navigate to the targets of your links within your project by holding down Ctrl and clicking on the link.

1.	Select the text in your topic that you want to use as the link caption (you can edit this later).

2.	Drag the selected text onto the topic in the Table of Contents (TOC) that you want to link to and release the mouse button.

3.	To view and edit the hyperlink settings double-click on the link to display the Hyperlink dialog box.

Links to anchors:

To quickly create a link to an anchor in the current or another topic just create the link with Drag & Drop and then double-click on the link to select the target anchor in the dialog. Select the anchor from the drop-down list next to the Target: field (see below for details).

Links to popup topics:

You do not need to do anything special to create a popup link. Links to popup topics in your project automatically open the target topics as popups.

1.	Select text in your document if you want to use it as the link. You can also skip this step and enter the caption in the hyperlink dialog.

2.	Open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box. There are two different ways to do this:

•	Press Ctrl+L

•	Select the Link tool in Write > Insert

3.	Edit the Caption: if necessary and select the link Style:

4.	Select the ID of the topic you want to link to from the Topic ID: list.

If the topic contains anchors you can also select an anchor from the drop-down list next to the Target: field. The link will then jump directly to the position of the anchor in the topic instead of the top of the topic.

See The Hyperlink dialog for details of the other settings in the dialog. See Linking to other projects and help files for details on creating external links.

Links to popup topics:

You do not need to do anything special to create a popup link. Links to popup topics in your project automatically open the target topics as popups.

This method works with both single and multiple links. If you copy multiple items in the TOC and paste them in the editor the result will be a list of links to the selected topics.

1.	Select one or more items in the TOC that you want to link to. Use Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click to select multiple items.

2.	Select Copy in the Clipboard tools in the Ribbon or press Ctrl+C.

3.	Click in the editor where you want to insert the links.

4.	Select Paste in the Clipboard tools the Ribbon or press Ctrl+V.

This will insert a list of links to all the items you copied from the TOC.

In HTML Help (.chm) and the obsolete Winhelp (.hlp) format you can open topics in external windows by specifying a secondary help window type in the link definition. Just select the window type you want to link to in the Window: field in the Insert Hyperlink dialog.

See Using help windows for more details.

If the target topic contains anchors you can link to an anchor to take the user directly to a point inside the target topic.

•	Double-click on the link in the editor to display hyperlink dialog and select the anchor from the drop-down list next to the Target: field.

The procedure is the same when you are creating a new link. Just select the anchor you want to link to from the drop-down list.

Anchors in embedded topics:

If you link to a topic containing an embedded topic any anchors in the embedded topic will not be displayed in the drop-down anchor list. To link to an anchor in an embedded topic make a note of the anchor ID and type it in the drop-down list box next to the Target: field manually when you edit the hyperlink.

Classic Winhelp:	Fully functional
HTML Help:	Fully functional
Visual Studio Help:	Fully functional.
Webhelp:	Fully functional
Adobe PDF:	Functional if activated in Configuration > Publishing Options > Adobe PDF > PDF Layout.
Winows Exe and ePub eBooks:	Fully functional
MS Word RTF:	Fully functional (links in RTF are activated with Ctrl+Click)

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