Link to websites and email addresses

You can create text links that your readers can tap or click to open a webpage or a preaddressed email message. You can edit these links or deactivate them so that they appear and behave as normal text.

If you don’t want Pages to automatically format web and email addresses as active links, you can turn off automatic link formatting.

Link to a webpage

  1. Select the text you want to turn into a link.

  2. Tap the Insert button in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Link.

  3. In Link Settings at the bottom of the screen, tap Link To, then tap Webpage.

  4. Type the full URL of the webpage in the Link field.

    The URL must be a recognizable web address (beginning with www or http, for example).

  5. To add custom text for the link (so the URL isn’t displayed in the document), type the text in the Display field.

  6. To verify the link, tap Back, then tap Open. If you’re finished, tap the document to close the settings.

Add a link that opens an email

  1. Select the text you want to turn into a link.

  2. Tap Insert button in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Link.

  3. In Link Settings at the bottom of the screen, tap Link To, then tap Email.

  4. Enter an email address and subject in the To and Subject fields.

  5. To change the text of the link, select the text in the Display field, then enter your own.

    For example, you may want the link in the document to show the recipient’s name and not the entire email address.

  6. To verify that the correct information appears in the email window, tap Back, then tap Compose Email. If you’re finished, tap the document.

Edit or deactivate a link

Turn off automatic formatting for links

If you don’t want Pages to format website URLs and email addresses as active links, you can turn off automatic formatting.

  1. Tap the More button in the toolbar.

  2. Tap Auto-Correction, then turn off Auto-Detect Links.

The setting applies to all Pages documents. Existing links aren’t affected by the change.

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