This hypertext tutorial will guide you in the creation of a document where all the interaction occurs within the document through jumps to and from bookmarks placed in the document. You can also jump out to different files as well as to bookmarks by using the appropriate option when you insert hyperlinks.

For simplicity here, we will learn to bookmark a single document and jump around in that. You'll get the most out of this tutorial if you reduce your Netscape window and open a Word one, and try out the features as you go.

Most of the process of creating and editing HTML files is the same as for Word. HTML file creation and development is fairly intuitive but differs from Word in the following components. Click on a component to find out more about it.

Saving Your HTML File

Depending on how you created your document, when you pull down the File menu, you should see Save options as follows:

Creating HTML, or Web documents, in Word is as easy as creating Word documents. Basically, you just write out what you want to say. However, with Web documents, you want to bear in mind how your audience is interacting with the text. Also, formatting features are liable to be more prominent and varied in Web documents than in prose ones, and these enhancements take on more communicative import. Here, you can find out about the following enhancements:

Creating Headings

Adding Background

You can easily color or texture the background on your web document. Here's how:

This process will copy a file to the folder where your HTML document is stored. When you transport your Word/HTML document, make sure you copy the associated image files as well.

Making those nifty little pull-down boxes

Here's what we know so far. If you use:

Our challenge now is to get text into the boxes. Can you crack this conundrum??

Making Bullets

Easy, just highlight the text you want bulleted, then use:

This process will copy a file to the folder where your HTML document is stored. When you transport your Word/HTML document, make sure you copy the associated image files as well.

Horizontal Lines

Place the cursor where you want the line, then use:

Once the line is on the page, you can click on it to expose its handles and then drag the handles to resize the line.

This process will copy a file to the folder where your HTML document is stored. When you transport your Word/HTML document, make sure you copy the associated image files as well.

Inserting Images

Place the cursor where you want the image, then use:

You have a number of options for inserting objects using this command sequence. In Clip Art, you will see a number of images and also be offered access to pictures, sound, and video files, as well as an option to browse the Web to locate art to import into your document. The From File option assumes that you have images in files somewhere and that you can locate these on your hard drive. There are a number of such images in the /Program Files /Microsoft Office / Clip Art folder on my machine, created during installation of Microsoft Office 97, and these files may reside on your machine as well.

When you get your standard issue digital camera, you can have fun with this feature

This process will copy a file to the folder where your HTML document is stored. When you transport your Word/HTML document, make sure you copy the associated image files as well.

Before you can jump around in a document, you have to create labeled locations. Then you jump to those labels. Here's how:

Linking to Bookmarks

To effect the jump from label to label, use:

Finding Your Bookmarks

Unfortunately, you can't see your bookmarks. However you can find them. Here's how:

Changing and Removing Bookmarks

The bad news is, you can't change a bookmark. The good news is, there's a workaround.

You can remove bookmarks and put them back correctly if needed. Here's how:

Linking to Files 

To effect the jump from file to file, use:

Editing Hyperlinks