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Hyperlink fundamentals

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Hyperlink fundamentals

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- [Instructor] The simplest kind of interactivity is a hyperlink, a hot spot in your document that takes you somewhere when you click or tap on it. But how do you make hyperlinks? Well, the hyperlinks' panel, of course, and I have the hyperlinks' panel over here on the right side of my screen, in the doc, right here. But if you don't see it in your doc, you can always find it by going to the window menu, choosing interactive, and then choosing hyperlinks. But before I go ahead and make a hyperlink, I want to point out that there are sometimes that you don't need to make hyperlinks in your PDF. For example, if there are very obvious URLs in your document something that has an http colon slash slash before it, or maybe even just www, in those cases, Adobe Acrobat can usually see those, and it converts them into hyperlinks for you. But, as it turns out, a lot of mobile or tablet PDF readers don't do that auto conversion. So really, if there's any chance that your PDF is going to end up…

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