Inserting a Hot-Spot

A hotspot allows you to create a relationship between some text in your topic and a Hypertext Link object, or a Macro Procedure object. In your published document, hot-spots are turned into page number cross references, footnotes, or hypertext jumps, or will execute a help macro.

The Hotspot is the launch point for any hypertext links or WinHelp macros.

To Insert a Hotspot

1. Select the text you want to turn into a hotspot. In your Help and Web outputs, the text will become a clickable hyperlink, and in your Printed output, it will be followed by a printed cross-reference in brackets, with automatic page numbers.
2. From the Topic Editor toolbar, click the Hotspot button. The Select an Object for the Hotspot window appears showing all available hypertext links and macro objects in your library.

   

3. Use the Show objects where targets are in options to filter the list of objects returned:
   • Current Book - displays all Hyperlink objects whose targets are in the current book
   • Current Folder - displays all Hyperlink or Macro objects that are in, or whose targets are in the current folder.
   • Whole Library - displays all Hyperlink or Macro objects in the library. This box is selected by default.

     Note: Checking Whole Library disables the other check boxes.

4. The object in the list with the closest matching text will automatically be highlighted. This is case insensitive and the highlighted object is refreshed automatically on changing the check box options, or on selecting another folder in the Library Explorer.
5. If the object you want is listed, select it then press OK. A hotspot is created to the selected object from the highlighted text in the Topic Editor. If no text is highlighted, the Hyperlink or Macro object Description is inserted at the cursor position and turned into a hotspot.

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   If the object you want is not listed, choose New to create a new Hypertext Link or Macro Procedure object.

6. Back in your topic, the selected characters now have a blue underline (Hypertext Link), or green underline (Macro Procedure).