Add links for websites and email addresses

You can make a word or phrase a link without showing its associated URL or email address in your document.

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

2. Do one of the following:

   • Click in the toolbar, then choose Add Link.

   • Choose Format > Add Link (from the Format menu at the top of your screen).

3. Click the “Link to” pop-up menu, then choose Webpage or Email.

4. Do one of the following:

   • For a website: Enter a URL in the Link field.

   • For an email address: Enter an email address and subject in the To and Subject fields.

5. Click Go to Page to verify the link.

Do one of the following:

• Click the link, click Edit, then make your changes.

  

• Click the link, then click Remove to deactivate the link.

If you don’t want Pages to automatically format links as clickable text, you can turn off Smart Links.

1. To turn off automatic formatting for just specific text, rather than for the whole document, select that text.

2. Choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).

   

3. Deselect the Smart Links checkbox.

4. Click Replace All to remove formatting from all automatically formatted links in the document, or click Replace in Selection to remove formatting just from the selected text.

When Smart Links is turned on for the document, a checkmark appears next to Smart Links in the Substitutions menu. You can deselect Smart Links in the menu to turn it off, but existing links won’t change unless you select the text that contains them, then follow the steps above.