Insert Hyperlinks in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Documents

You can't put all the world's knowledge in that report you're writing, so you'd like to point to a few related Web sites. Good idea. Rather than reproducing the URL and making people copy and paste it themselves, you'd like to make it a real link, putting those resources just a click away. But you don't know how to turn text into links in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Don't worry, we're here to help.

As the How-To Geek explains, adding a hyperlink to a document is pretty simple. Just follow these steps:

1. Select the text you want to turn into a link.
2. Right-click and choose Hyperlink.
3. Type the URL you want to link to and click OK.