Hyperlinks in Word not working.

As a workaround for the time being, are you able to select the text then right click & choose Hyperlink?
- The address ought to be shown in the Address field already but you could try pasting it in there yourself.

Best of luck,
Denis

It still works in my Word 2013 on the latest Win10 RTM, copied the URL for this page, pasted into Word, pressed space bar and it showed as a link then held down the Ctrl key while clicking it.

I use Word from Office 365 and require more effort to create a hot link.

For me, pasting a url into Word, it behaves as a simple line of text (even while holding the ctrl key) until I perform the followings actions.

Highlight the text (url), select the insert tab, click 'link' in the top center, then click 'insert link'.



Change the 'text to display' box, or not, click OK. Now the url is a hot link. Click on the link while holding the ctrl key and presto a new tab opens in my browser. This process works for me.







Another option, as described by Denis in post #2, highlight the url, right-click and select link. Then click on insert link on the flyout window. The next window that opens allows you the opportunity to rename the hotlink to whatever you prefer or simply click OK to leave the full url displayed.

Hi kithra,

Does the version of Word you're using have the options or similar features to what I've outlined above, in post #4?

Please follow these directions to upload & post screenshots. Thanks,

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kithra said:

Thanks for the replies but none seem to work.

Your diagram [in the docx] shows nothing selected. You've got to select the www.tenforms.com or whatever then use either of the methods given to see/set the hyperlink target address [my method in post #2 or W10 tweaker's method in post #4].

I agree that you should just post your screenshots straight here instead of pasting them into Word files. They are much clearer on their own.

Denis

kithra said:

Thanks for the replies and trying to help. Sorry but I'm finding all this just utterly confusing. I had a link earlier in a doc that was blue and "live". So I copied and pasted it into the end of the doc and it worked exactly as it always used to. I think the problem is to do with the Word doc itself. So I'll run a repair and see if that helps. If that doesn't work I'll get my tame computer guy to come and take a look.

You're most welcome.

Were you able to follow the steps I listed in post #4?