basic linking problems...not getting...

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I'm running Vista Home Premium and HTML Editor which I just bought last week. My current site which I put up years ago with Trellix is www.PortlandTherapist.com, a simple site of 10 or so pages. I managed to download several pages from my current site to begin working onto the HTML Editor which I would like to start using in the future. But I keep failing in many attempts to link the pages together as they already are via Trellix (and failing to get support except for a few lines of email.)
What i've done: Go to Visual editor mode; and put all three files in the same directory. Opened the main page and highlighted one word, Depression, that I used to link to the second page. Then I tried three different methods (dozens of times)...1) go to Links icon and then to Quick Link to Relative file; since that doesn't work, (2) I opened that file and then repeated the proceedure but using Qucik Link to Open file; and then (3)tried the Links...Link, then browse then clicked on desired file. I've also tried selecting then right clicking then the same as above as well as going to Insert and then Link etc....After each of those proceedures there was no indication on the Visual editor mode that a link had been established so I went to preview which would show the link as active but when I click it always takes me to "This program can not display the webpage...I've tried changing the extensions from html to htm and back but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Barney
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Hi,

I see you have no answers yet. I don't use the "visual" tab on the html editor, so unfortunately I can't say if it supports what you are trying to do. If you were using html, you would have to insert and "anchor" on the page you are linking to, then created the link needed on the page you to link from. You might want to try the help file, under "guide to making web pages" then under "hyperlinks". It is a good start to understanding how to code hyperlinks on your web pages.

Here is the basic code that I would use for this (and I have no idea how to reproduce this in the visual editor mode, sorry):
on the page where you want the link to go to (your word was "Depression", put this code just before the word:
<a name="Depression"></a>

Then, on the page where you are linking from, use this code for the link(you can change the wording and the "mypagename" to the name of your web page where the "anchor" is placed):
<a href="mypagename.html#Depression"> link to Depression </a>

Sorry my answer is so thechnical. I hope you can follow the example and make it work for you.

Good Luck
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