Back to Linking to Documents Tutorial
welcome in this video tutorial we're
going to talk about how to link to
documents
now before you can get to this step
you'll want to make sure to upload
your document to your media library like
i've done with this one right here
if you haven't done that yet make sure
you do that first and if you
are not sure how to do that we have a
separate video that
gives you instructions on how to upload
documents to your media library
so once you've uploaded your document to
your media library
then you can link to this document a few
different ways so that you can
actually share it with other people so
to demonstrate that i'll go ahead and
create just a basic page here real quick
all right and we'll give it a name
now the most common way you're going to
be
sharing this document with other people
is by linking to it using a custom link
so to create a custom link first we put
our text
in
then after you've typed out your text
you can simply
highlight the part of the text that you
want to create the link for
make sure that the part you're
highlighting is descriptive of
whatever the document is going to be
then you click the little
link icon up here with the little plus
symbol
and you'll search for the file name of
the document
now if your file name for the document
you uploaded has like
dashes or underscores or anything like
that you'll have to include that in your
search
once you select the document it should
create a relative
path link for you which looks something
sort of like this
and the title the link title should be
down here all this stuff
should be good so we're going to go
ahead and click save
and as you'll see it creates a little
underline
this is blue tells me yes this is a link
to a document we'll test this out in a
second
but i also wanted to show you that you
can also embed documents onto a page
and the way that you do something like
that is you put your cursor
wherever you want the document to go
then you'll click the little e
icon here in the wysiwyg bar
then you can search for the document in
your media library
a new one is just going to be at the
very top so this is the one i'm going to
use
so i'll select it i'm going to ask you
to confirm that this is the actual
document you want to use
yes that's the one click you selected
and then make sure the
display as is selected as embedded it
should be automatically but in case
for some reason it gets switched make
sure it's on embedded
and then alignment you don't need to
worry about this part you can just leave
it
at none then click embed
now the two here don't look that
drastically different but you'll see
when we preview our page
that here at the top is our regular link
we created and
here is the embedded document and so
the embedded document will have this
little you know page icon
it'll show the actual file name um
instead of you know whatever text you
might put for a link and actually shows
you like the size of the file over here
so
this is how this is going to look any
time you embed a document
one note is that if you've got a lot of
documents that you want to embed
it can be a little bit tricky because
you'll see that i'll try to click down
below
the embedded document and my cursor is
not going anywhere
if that happens to you this little red
line should pop up just click the little
red box
and it should space down so you could
add another document if you want
let's go ahead and test this out i'm
going to save this as a draft
and here if we click on our link opens
up the document
if we click on the embedded document
opens up again
the embedded documents will open in a
new tab automatically
if you want that to happen for a regular
link you can do that
basically after you create the custom
link you can then
highlight it and then click on the
regular link icon here
and choose target and then select
new window
and now when we save this and we try to
open up
the document using the custom link it
will also open up in a new tab
so there it is that's