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The Further settings section in the bottom right part of the dialog box is common to

all the hyperlink types, although some choices are more relevant to some types of

links.

• Set the value of Frame to determine how the hyperlink will open. This applies

to documents that open in a Web browser.

• Form specifies if the link is to be presented as text or as a button.

• Text specifies the text that will be visible to the user.

• Name is applicable to HTML documents. It specifies text that will be added as

a NAME attribute in the HTML code behind the hyperlink.

• Event button: this button will be activated to allow OOo to react to events for

which the user has written some code (macro). This function is not covered in

this book.

Editing hyperlinks

To edit a hyperlink, click anywhere in the link text and then open the Hyperlink

dialog box by clicking the Hyperlink icon on the Standard toolbar or choosing Edit

> Hyperlink from the menu bar. Make your changes and click Apply. If you need to

edit several hyperlinks, you can leave the Hyperlink dialog box open until you have

edited all of them. Be sure to click Apply after each one. When you are finished, click

Close.

The standard (default) behavior for activating hyperlinks within OOo is to use

Ctrl+click. This behavior can be changed in Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org >

Security > Options, by deselecting the option Ctrl-click required to follow

hyperlinks. If clicking in your links activates them, check that page to see if the

option has been deselected.

To change the color of hyperlinks, go to Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org >

Appearance, scroll to Unvisited links and/or Visited links, select those options, pick

the new colors and click OK. Caution: this will change the color for all hyperlinks in

all components of OpenOffice.org—this may not be what you want.

In Writer and Calc (but not Draw or Impress), you can also change the Internet link

character style or define and apply new styles to selected links.

Switching between insert and overwrite mode

With the keyboard, press Insert to toggle between overwrite mode and insert mode.

In insert mode, any text after the cursor position moves forward to make room for the

text you type; in overwrite mode, text after the cursor position is replaced by the text

you type. The current mode is displayed on the Status Bar.

With the mouse, click in the area on the Status Bar that indicates the current mode in

order to switch to the other mode.

Counting the words in a selection

Select a block of text and choose Tools > Word Count. OOo displays the number of

words and characters in the selection as well as the number of words in the

document. You can also see the number of words and characters (and other

information) in the entire document in File > Properties > Statistics.

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