Hyperlinks can be used to connect maps to websites, folders, or files such as Excel or PDF documents, even another topic in current workbook. Each topic can be given a URL and presented as a hyperlink(multiple URLs cannot be associated with a topic).

You can easily create, open, modify, and cancel existed hyperlink. Here's how:

To Create hyperlink:

  1. Select a topic.
  2. Open the hyperlink dialog via one way following:
    • Choose 'Modify > Hyperlink' on the menu.
      Hyerlink On Menu
    • Click hyperlink iconHyperlink Icon on the toolbar.
    • Press 'Ctrl + H' (or Command + H for Mac users).
    • Right click mouse to open context menu, and select "Hyperlink"
  3. There are three kinds link in XMind.
    1. "Web": Enter the URL(for example: http://www.XMind.org).
    2. "File": Add a local file or folder link.
    3. "Topic": Link a topic in current workbook.
  4. Click "OK", and finish.

Hyperlink Dialog

To Open a hyperlink

  1. Select topic with Hyperlink.
  2. There are two ways to open a hyperlink:
    • From Menu:
      1. For Web link: Select "Modify > Open Hyperlink".
      2. For local file: Select "Modify > Open File".
      3. For local folder: Select "Modify > Open Folder".
      4. For Topic: Select "Modify > Go To Topic"
    • Right-click mouse and open topic context menu, select "Open Hyperlink", "Open File", "Open Folder", or "Go To Topic".

To Modify a Hyperlink

  1. Select the topic with hyperlink
  2. Right-click to open context menu, and select "Hyperlink" to open hyperlink dialog
  3. Modify the link in the dialog.
  4. Click "ok" to finish.

To Cancel a hyperlink

  1. Select the topic with hyperlink.
  2. Right-click to open context menu, select "Cancel Hyperlink".

Modify Hyperlink

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