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You can format text or a graphic that's displayed for a single hyperlink (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) by selecting the text or graphic and applying new formatting.

If you want to change the appearance of all text hyperlinks in a document, do the following:

1. Open the document that contains the hyperlinks you want to change.
2. On the Formatting toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), click Styles and Formatting .
3. Do one of the following:
   • To change the appearance of hyperlinks, in the Pick formatting to apply box, right-click the Hyperlink style, and then click Modify.

   • To change the appearance of followed hyperlinks (followed hyperlink: A hyperlink to a destination you have visited. Once you follow a hyperlink to its destination, the hyperlink changes color.), in the Pick formatting to apply box, right-click the FollowedHyperlink style, and then click Modify.

   Note  If the Hyperlink or FollowedHyperlink styles do not appear in the Pick formatting to apply box, in the Show box, click All Styles.

4. Select the formatting options that you want, or click Format, and then click Font to see more options.

Notes

• To use the modified Hyperlink or FollowedHyperlink style in new documents based on the same template, select the Add to template check box in the Modify Style dialog box.
• You can also use themes (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.) to change the appearance of hyperlinks and other elements in your document or Web page.