Adding shortened or hyperlinks to word

Question

I am writting some document with links to external websites, but some links are to large to simply be tossed in to the word file and i was thinking if there's a way to attach the hyperlink to any word/phrase in the document for example:

www.google.com/verylonglinkhereforexample

As if i would do in for a hyperlink tag:

check the site here, where clicking site, would take me to the desired link behind site word. Or is there any alternative at all to reduce links instead of tossing large links to the document?

Answer 1

This is an easy one.

Assuming you're using Office 2016/2019 (I'm not 100% sure about the others, but I'm sure it would be pretty similar), the easiest way to do this is:

First, highlight the text you want to go to the hyperlink.

1. Go to the insert tab
2. Press 'Link'
3. At the top of the dialog box, check that the text to display is the text you highlighted
4. At the bottom of the dialog box, enter the actual hyperlink
5. Press OK
6. Enjoy!