Operation Manual

Creating hyperlinks
When you type text (such as a website addresses or URL) that can be used as a hyperlink, and
then press the spacebar or the Enter key, LibreOffice automatically creates the hyperlink and
applies formatting to the text (usually a color and underlining). If this does not happen, you can
enable this feature by going to Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Options on the menu bar and
selecting the URL Recognition option.
If you do not want LibreOffice to convert a specific URL to a hyperlink, go to Edit > Undo Insert on
the menu bar, or press Ctrl+Z immediately after the formatting has been applied, or place the
cursor in the hyperlink, right-click, and select Remove Hyperlink from the context menu.
Tip
To change the color of hyperlinks, go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Appearance,
scroll to Unvisited links and/or Visited links, pick the new colors and click OK. Caution:
this will change the color for all hyperlinks in all components of LibreOffice; this may not
be what you want.
In Writer and Calc (but not Draw or Impress), you can also change the Internet link
character style or define and apply new styles to selected links.
Using the Navigator
You can insert hyperlinks using the Navigator and this is an easy way to insert a hyperlink to
another part of the same document.
1) Open the documents containing the items you want to cross-reference.
2) Click on the Navigator icon in the Sidebar.
3) Click the triangle to right of the Drag Mode icon and select Insert as Hyperlink (Figure
316). Note that the Drag Mode icon changes shape depending on the type of insert that
was previously selected. The default icon for Drag Mode is to show the Hyperlink icon .
Figure 316: Inserting hyperlink using the Navigator
4) Select the document from the drop-down list at the bottom of the Navigator that contains
the item that you want to link to.
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