Creating descriptive links

  • highlight the text you want to make a link
  • click the link icon (it looks like a chain link)
  • in the pop up box, the ‘display text’ will be the text you have highlighted
  • add the URL you want the link to go to
    • if you're linking to something on sutton.gov.uk, you only need to use the last part of the URL - eg '/digital-content-manual'
  • click OK

Linking to an email address

  • highlight the person’s name
  • click the link icon (it looks like a chain link)
  • for the link URL, put mailto: in front of the person’s email address - eg mailto:joe.bloggs@sutton.gov.uk
  • change the Protocol to Other
  • click OK
  • if you want to set an automatic subject line or email text, highlight the name again and click the link icon
  • you will now have fields for Message Subject and Message Body