Module 12 2019

Hyperlink Best Practices

• Internal and cross-document hyperlinks assist agency and internal reviewers in navigating the content of a submission. • Because authors know the most about the supportive information and where they want a reviewer to go, they are typically the most qualified person to identify and confirm hyperlinks to ensure they take the reviewer to the correct destination. • When hyperlink creation is pushed to the end of the submission process, it creates more work on the critical path and the potential for mistakes. • By building hyperlinks upstream (in the authoring process), there is less of a chance that the hyperlinks will be broken or point to an incorrect location

• By building hyperlinks upstream (in the authoring process), there is less of a

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