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How Do I Turn on the Automatic Web Address Highlighter?
by Regina Paul
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Overview
Turning on the automatic web address highlighter has the advantage of making links within articles show up much more blatantly than they otherwise would. When you're scanning an article looking for a particular link, being able to automatically highlight it with your mouse makes it much easier to locate. While links within articles are usually a different color than the text, this is not always the case; that's a key reason why you'd want to turn on the automatic web address highlighter, which is an easy task to accomplish.
Your links can look like this when you turn on the automatic web address highlighter.
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Step 1
Open Internet Explorer.
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Step 2
Click on the "Tools" drop down menu and select "Internet Options."
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Step 3
Click on the "General" tab in the "Internet Options" window.
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Step 4
Click on the "Colors" button.
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Step 5
Click on the check mark in the "Use Windows Colors" check box to remove the check mark.
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Step 6
Select a text color from the color box next to "Text."
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Step 7
Select a background color from the color box next to "Background."
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Step 8
Select a visited link color from the color box next to "Visited."
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Step 9
Select an unvisited link color from the color box next to "Unvisited."
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Step 10
Put a check mark in the "Use Hover Color" box by clicking on it with your mouse. Select a color from the color box next to "Hover." This will turn on the automatic web address highlighter so that when your mouse hovers over a link it will highlight it in the color you chose.
