User Guide
Chapter 8 Working with Text 185
Linking to a Preaddressed Email Message
You can add a hyperlink that you can click to create a preaddressed email message in
your default mail application.
To add hypertext that links to an email message:
1 Select the text that you want to turn into a hyperlink.
If you include an email address in a spreadsheet, the text automatically becomes a
hyperlink. To turn o this feature, choose Numbers > Preferences, click Auto-Correction,
and then deselect “Automatically detect email and web addresses.” This setting is
computer specic, so if the spreadsheet is edited on a computer with a dierent
setting, that computer’s setting is used instead.
2 Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Hyperlink inspector button, and then select
“Enable as a hyperlink.”
3 Choose Email Message from the Link To pop-up menu.
4 Type the email address of the intended recipient in the To eld.
5 Optionally type a subject line in the Subject eld.
Type the email address of
the message recipient.
Type the message subject.
You can also quickly create a hyperlink using the Insert menu. Place an insertion point
somewhere in your spreadsheet, and choose Insert > Hyperlink > Email Message.
A link is added to your spreadsheet and the Hyperlink inspector opens. Type the email
address in the To eld.
Editing Hyperlink Text
There are several ways to edit hyperlink text.
Here are ways to edit hyperlink text:
Deactivate hyperlinks so that they can be edited without activating the link. m
Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Hyperlink inspector button, select “Make all
hyperlinks inactive”, edit the text, and then reactivate the link.
Click outside the hyperlink text, and use the arrow keys to move the insertion point m
into the text.