How to make clickable links and cross-references in pdfs produced by LaTeX?

How can I make things link url references, my index, table of contents, and cross references clickable links in documents produced by LaTeX? I generally use pdflatex to produce my documents.

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The hyperref package does all of these things. you may need to include it with options like ~~backlinks~~ backref to get back references, but it does everything you need.

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Once you start using hyperref , you might well ask yourself: How can I remove the ugly borders around clickable crossreferences and hyperlinks? For even more issues regarding this package, check out the top questions tagged with .

Commented Nov 1, 2011 at 12:22

The documentation is pretty voluminous. To just create a simple hyperlink, this worked for me: \usepackage at the top after the other usepackages, and \href where I want to put a link.