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Associate hyperlinks

By associating a hyperlink, you tell MapPoint which hyperlink you want called from the map or from a Web page saved from the map when the balloon is not open or if there is no balloon for the data point. You can have multiple hyperlinks in a balloon or for a data point, but only one can be associated with a Pushpin or data point. To associate hyperlinks with data sets that don't have balloons—such as Shaded Area maps, demographic data maps, data that is aggregated, or territories—have MapPoint automatically generate hyperlinks.

  1. Select the Pushpin or data set name in the map legend.

  2. On the Data menu, click Data Set Properties, and click the Hyperlink tab.

  3. Do one of the following:

    To use hyperlinks you manually add to balloons

    Click Use hyperlinks you add to Pushpin balloon notes.

    Note  If MapPoint detects more than one hyperlink in the note section of a balloon, only the first hyperlink is associated.

    To use hyperlinks from your imported or linked data

    1. Click Use hyperlinks from your imported or linked data.
    2. Select the column name that contains the hyperlinks you want to associate.

    To use hyperlinks that MapPoint automatically generates

    1. Click Have MapPoint automatically create a set of hyperlinks.

    2. If you haven't done so already, enter a hyperlink template, using an asterisk (*) as a placeholder for the place name associated with each data point.

      For example, if the data is mapped by city as the geographic unit and you enter https://www.msn.com/*.htm (where * indicates the city name), MapPoint will create the following hyperlink for data mapped in Boston: https://www.msn.com/Boston%20MA.htm for every city in the Pushpin or data set.

    3. Verify that the hyperlink is correct by looking at the hyperlink that appears in the Sample hyperlink box, and modify the hyperlink template, if necessary.

      The sample hyperlink is based on the mapped data.

    Tip  You can also indicate display text, a bookmark, and ScreenTip for automatically generated hyperlinks using the following format:

    DisplayName#Hyperlink#Bookmark#ScreenTip#

    For example, if you enter Click Here#https://www.microsoft.com/##Link to Microsoft's Web site#, the text that appears in the Pushpin balloon is Click Here, the hyperlink address is https://www.microsoft.com/, and the ScreenTip on a saved Web page for the Pushpin or data point is Link to Microsoft's Web site.

    Notes

    The double number sign (##) in the string in this example indicates that no bookmark is set.

    ScreenTips appear only when the map is saved as a Web page, not from the map file in MapPoint.

    To not have any hyperlinks associated with this Pushpin or data set

    There may be circumstances where you want to disable hyperlinks for a Pushpin or data set. For example, if you have multiple mapped Pushpin or data sets, each with hyperlinks, you may want to disable the hyperlinks for some of the sets before saving your map as a Web page.

    Click Do not use hyperlinks for this set.

  4. Click OK.

Tip  To follow a hyperlink from the map without opening the balloon or if there is no balloon for the data point, press CTRL while clicking the Pushpin symbol or data point. This is a good way to check hyperlinks before saving a map as a Web page.

Add hyperlinks

About Pushpins and Pushpin sets

Save a map as a Web page

Troubleshoot hyperlinks