Insert Navigation: Inserting a Back/Next Link Bar

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"Back and Next" Link Bars allow you to create a navigation bar for a sequence of page. When you create a Back and Next Link Bar, you must define a sequence of pages. You may then insert the link bar on the corresponding pages. Only "Back" and "Next" buttons are displayed, but they link to the next and previous page in the sequence.

1. Open one of the pages that will be part of your Back/Next sequence. Go to Insert > Navigation. A dialog box will pop up. Choose the option: "Bar with back and next links." Click Next.

   
   

2. Now you may choose the style of your bar (don't worry, you can change the style later, also). If you want to use buttons from the page's theme, make sure you've selected the right one and click Next. You may also scroll down and choose buttons from other themes, or scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list to view the text link bar styles.

   
   

3. Now choose the orientation of your navigation bar -- horizontal or vertical. Then, click "Finish."

   
   

4. If this is the first link bar you are creating, the dialog box below will appear. Otherwise, click "Create New..." You may name your link bar if you wish. This will help you reference it later.

   [If you want to insert a link bar that you've already created on a different page, simply select the link bar and click OK. You're done!]

   
   

5. Now you may begin to add the links that you want on your custom link bar. Click on the "Add Link" button.

   
   

6. A dialog box will pop up (see below). You may browse through the pages in your existing web to choose the first page in your sequence. You may also link to an outside web page by clicking on the Browse the Web icon , but note that the outside web page will not have "back" or "next" buttons on it.

   

   Existing File or Web Page: Link to another page within your web or a different URL. You may browse the web, or type in the URL in the "Address" field.

   • Text to display: This is the text that will show up on your link bar (please see below for more detail). We will change it to "Contact Us."
   • Address: The URL of the page that you want to link to.
7. Continue to add more links to your custom link bar. Be sure to include the page that you are currently on. When you are done, click OK.

   

   In this diagram, you can see that we have specified four pages in our back/next sequence: Contact Us, Home, FAQ, and Feedback. 

   You may move a page up or down in the sequence by clicking "Move Up" or "Move Down."
   

8. This is what the link bar looks like on our page, in Normal View:

   
   

9. To change the style of the link bar, right-click on the link bar in Normal View and choose Link Bar Properties. Click on the Style tab to change the style of the link bar.