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A method of creating document hyperlinks that allow a user to jump to another object or page within the same document or in another document all together--either on a local storage device, or on a remote storage device over a local area network, private wide area network, or the Internet. Hyperlinks

A method of creating document hyperlinks that allow a user to jump to another object or page within the same document or in another document all together--either on a local storage device, or on a remote storage device over a local area network, private wide area network, or the Internet. Hyperlinks that access a document from the Internet are called URL hyperlinks. A URL hyperlink in accordance with the present invention can be created as a new object (e.g., a graphics figure or text) or assigned to an existing object. With a figure-based hyperlink, a user can click anywhere within the figure's bounding box area to invoke a jump to the designated destination. In the preferred embodiment, with a text-based URL hyperlink, a jump will be invoked only when the user clicks on the specific characters that are associated with the URL hyperlink.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A computer-implemented method of creating a document hyperlink, comprising the steps of:receiving from a user an input gesture selecting a first object having an associated hyperlink;receiving from the user an input gesture dragging the hyperlink to a selected location

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A computer-implemented method of creating a document hyperlink, comprising the steps of:receiving from a user an input gesture selecting a first object having an associated hyperlink;receiving from the user an input gesture dragging the hyperlink to a selected location on a document page;receiving from the user an input gesture dropping the hyperlink onto the selected location;determining, without further user input, whether the selected location includes a pre-existing document object or not, and:if so, setting a property associated with the pre-existing document object to the value of the dropped hyperlink, thereby linking the pre-existing document object to the first object;if not, copying at least part of the first object into the document page as a new document object and setting a property associated with the new document object to the value of the dropped hyperlink, thereby linking the new document object to the first object.