Hyperlinks are the driving force behind the internet.

Every time you click on a highlighted word, button or menu to be taken to another page, it’s an underlying hyperlink that takes you where you want to go.

But this type of link is not the preserve of web designers and programmers; anybody can use them to make their Microsoft Word documents excitingly interactive.

Hyperlinks work only when documents are loaded into Word and browsed on screen, so they’re at their most useful when documents are shared on a network or sent as email attachments, but navigable Word files may also be printed in the usual way.

They make it easy for readers to find their way around lengthy documents, and they’re ideal for reports and guides that need to call on figures or pictures stored in other documents.