The same thing will happen to anyone to whom you send this document. You can edit the link text like any other text inside a Word document: the difference is now that if you click on the blue underlined text while holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, Word will open the target website in your default web browser. You can now move your mouse over the link you inserted, and your mouse cursor (pointer) takes the shape of a hand, with a pointed finger. Microsoft Word 2007 has created a link to the address you specified. Opening hyperlinks in Word 2007 documents In other words, instead of showing something like " Vista Tutorial", it would just show " ". If you don't select any text prior to creating a hyperlink, or if you leave Text to display blank, Word 2007 will display the URL itself as clickable link. Shortcut: hit Ctrl+K on your keyboard to open Insert Hyperlink and quickly create a link. Otherwise, just type the web page or website URL inside the Address field, and hit Enter or click OK to accept and set the link target. Notice that under Text to display, the Insert Hyperlink window used the text you selected a minute ago: if you wanted to change the link text, you could modify the text contained in the Text to display textbox. Click on the Hyperlink button, and Word 2007 will open the Insert Hyperlink dialog:
Hyperlinks go to an external website or document (Word, PDF.) on the web, whereas the other "links" (bookmarks and cross-references) are links "internal" to the Word document itself. Start by selecting the piece of text you want to use as clickable link then go to the Insert tab of the Ribbon, and locate the section labeled Links: it includes a Hyperlink, a Bookmark, and a Cross-reference button. Although the new link will point to a different location, the link's text will remain the same.
Second, it means that you can update the target web page in your document without having to change its wording, the text alignment, wrapping, etc. Typing the label or the hyperlink means is often more user friendly than including an actual endless, and hard-to-read, "URL" (website address). There are two ways to create a web page link inside Word 2007: the first way is to type the text link. Change orientation to portrait / landscape.