Avoiding Messy Word Document Links

Posted in: Software Downloads and Tips

If you’ve ever tried copying website addresses into Microsoft Word, you’ve likely experienced a bit of frustration upon finding that the pasted link was a different size, appeared to be a different font style, or ended up in the wrong place.

The secret to keeping your Word documents nice and organized while still including links to web pages or other documents is the keyboard combination of the Ctrl + k.

Go ahead and type a sentence in a new Word document. Next, highlight a few words of the sentence. Now, hit Ctrl + K and a little window pops open. This window allows you to type (or paste) in the address of a website or link to a different document located on your computer. Upon clicking the OK button, the text you highlighted will become a link that matches the rest of your document’s text.

Clipmarks

Posted in: Online Tools

Clipmarks likens itself to “scissors for the web” because it lets you choose specific content on just about any web page that you’d like to save or share with others.

Perhaps you’re one of the many online users comfortable with bookmarking web pages or saving them to your list of Favorites. If so, it’s likely that, at one point or another, you’ve bookmarked a page only to discover that, upon your return, you couldn’t locate the information you’d been interested in. This is the one weakness of Bookmarks/Favorites — you can only bookmark entire pages.

Clipmarks lets you clip sections of pages and then share them anywhere on the web or by e-mail. The service is available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, it’s entirely free, and signing up takes less than a minute.

Interested? Head over to www.clipmarks.com.