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If you need to create a hypertext link from a word or group of words within your document to another area of your document, you use the Hypertext command on the Special menu.

How To: Creating a hypertext link

1. Navigate to the destination location for your link.

2. With your insertion point at the beginning of the line of text to which you want to link, open the Special menu, and click Hypertext.

The Hypertext dialog box appears.

3. In the Command drop-down list, select Specify Named Destination.

The Syntax field shows a description of the information that you must define for the hypertext link to work accurately. The newlink value appears automatically, indicating that you are creating a new hypertext link.

4. In the Syntax field, place your insertion point after the space that follows the newlink value.

5. Type a name for the link.

6. Click New Hypertext Marker.

The Hypertext dialog box remains open. Do not close the dialog box; you will use it later in this procedure.

7. Navigate to and select the word or group of words that you want to make the hypertext link.

8. Apply the desired character tag to the selected text, and leave the text selected.

The character tag tells FrameMaker exactly where to place the link.

9. In the Command field on the Hypertext dialog box, select Jump to Named Destination.

10. In the Syntax field, the gotolink value appears automatically, indicating that you are identifying the destination of your hypertext link.

11. In the Syntax field, place your insertion point after the space that follows the gotolink value.

12. If you are linking to a destination within the same file, simply type the link name after gotolink.

If you are linking to a destination within a different file but in the same book or folder, type filename.fm:.

13. Click New Hypertext Marker.

14. Press CTRL+ALT, hover over the hypertext, and click to verify that the hypertext link takes you to the appropriate place within your document.

It is important that you type the link name exactly as you initially created it in step 5. You will receive an error message if FrameMaker cannot find a link that matches the name that you specify after the gotolink value.