Webpage development/editing software such as Mozilla Composer, Frontpage, or Dreamweaver is preferable for making your Web pages.

However, many other software applications, including PowerPoint, Presentations, Word, and WordPerfect, can be linked internally for displaying on the Web or can convert documents to hypertext markup language (htm or html files).

This document illustrates the procedure for linking documents to each other using Microsoft Word. Other software uses similar procedures. Check the Help files of your software for the specifics of making/inserting hyperlinks.

1. Save all the files you might want to link to within a single folder on your computer. You can link only to files that exist.
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2. Within your own text, highlight the word or group of words you want people to click on, for example, D. Reiss Faculty Homepage.
3. Click the hyperlink/link button at the upper menu of your window, usually a picture of a chain link or a chain link and globe.
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4. A selection box will open similar to this one. You will choose to browse to a file within your folder and select it or copy-paste the Web address (URL) of an external Webpage you want your readers to visit when they click your text. Here the selections could be either D. Reiss Faculty Homepage or the index.htm file within the folder. Click OK to save the selection.
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5. Save the file where you have inserted the hyperlink.
6. Now if I click D. Reiss Faculty Homepage, the link is active and will take me to that Webpage.