WORKING WITH NOTES DOCUMENTS

Creating links to documents, views, folders, or applications
You can create a link in a document that lets readers switch to another document, view, folder, or application. You can also create a link to a particular location in a document. You must be in a rich-text field (a field that allows text, objects, file attachments, and pictures) to create a link. This is an example of a link in a document that leads to another document:

Document link

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To create a link to a document, view, folder, or application

1. Open the document, view, folder, or application to link to.

2. Click Edit > Copy As, and then select one of these options:

3. Put the document that you are adding the link to in edit mode.

4. Click where you want the link to appear.

5. Click Edit > Paste.

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To create a link to a particular location in a document

1. Put the document you are linking to in edit mode.

2. Place your cursor at the beginning of the paragraph you want to link to.

3. Click Edit > Copy as > Anchor Link. This adds an anchor link icon next to the paragraph. The anchor link is hidden when the document is in Read mode.


4. Put the document you are adding the link to in edit mode.

5. Click where you want the link to appear.

6. Click Edit > Paste.

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To customize the status bar description of a link

When a document, view, or application link is created, a description automatically appears that shows where the link goes when someone clicks it. This description appears in the status bar when a user moves the cursor over the link. You can customize the description, perhaps to provide an application server and file name.

Status bar link description

1. Right-click the link to select it.

2. Click Link Properties.

3. Delete the text in the Link Description text box, and enter new text, and then click the check mark to save.

4. (Optional) For document, view, and anchor links, add a target in the Target field if the link should jump to a particular target (for example, Right). You cannot add a target to application links.

Link Properties information

The Link > Link Properties menu option appears only when there is a link in a document. Link properties information includes a description of the link, unique alphanumeric strings that identify the linked document, the specific target or frame the link jumps to (if the link was given a target), and the name of the server where the linked document resides.

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