Insert Navigation: Inserting a Custom Link Bar

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Custom Link Bars allow you to build a link bar with any pages of your choosing.

1. Go to Insert > Navigation. A dialog box will pop up. Choose the top option: "Bar with custom 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 page your want to link to. You may also link to an outside web page by clicking on the Browse the Web icon or create email links.

   

   Linking to an 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.

   Place in This Document: This option will list all Bookmarks that you have in your page to allow you to create a jump-down bookmark link.

   Linking to an E-mail Address: Create an "e-mail" link (see diagram below).

   • Text to display: This is the text that will show up on your link bar.
   • E-mail address: Start typing your email address -- the "mailto:" text will automatically appear.
   • Subject: Some email programs will allow the link to place a subject. For example, if your email link is about "Requesting Brochures," you may wish to set the Subject Line as "Brochure Request."

   

7. Continue to add more links to your link bar, then click OK. In Normal View, your link bar will look similar to the diagram below. Click on "add link" to add another link to your link bar.

   

   To change the style of the link bar, double-click on the link bar in Normal View. Click on the Style tab to change the style of the link bar.