Let's get back to our help file - let's add some content to some of the new topics we've created. This gives me a chance to demonstrate a few common operations you'll be working with as you work on your topics.

Inserting Hyperlinks

Let's move on to filling in some of the topic text starting with the first topic in the list - Download Web Monitor. We'll add some text and one of thing we'll need to do here is add a hyperlink to the Web site for downloading. To do so we select the work we want to link and then click on the Hyperlink button on the toolbar (Ctrl-K or the chain link over the globe icon).

Let's try that out. Select the System Requirements topic we created earlier and highlight this text:

Microsoft .Net Runtime V 1.1 or later

and click on the Hyperlink button on the toolbar which brings up the following dialog:

By default the URL pops up with whatever text you have highlighted, so you can change that to a specific URL like I did in the dialog above. The generated text that gets embedded into your Body text looks like this:

< <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx" target="top"> >Microsoft .Net Runtime V 1.1 or later< </a> >

Here's what the result looks like:

See also

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