I would like a bit more understanding how to hyperlink to one or more documents

Hi Christine,
Thank you for your post, welcome to the forum, in answer to your post;

I have posted quite a rambling explanation, hopefully it will make sense as you work through it:

Create a Hyperlink to a Bookmark
Step 1 - Open Your document and find the sentence/word which you wish to use as your link.
Step 2 - Place your cursor to the left of the beginning of that line. Actually, you can place your cursor anywhere in that statement, the hyperlink will work just as well.
Step 3 - Move your cursor to the Insert menu, click once and slide down to Bookmark. Click once.
• Enter a name for the bookmark. The bookmark will go wherever your cursor is in the document. If you have moved the cursor since step 2, click Cancel and go back to step 2.
• Your bookmark will be hidden, that is the default choice. Deselect the check mark if you want the bookmark to show.
• Click on Add and the bookmark to place it
• Save the document. If you do not, Word will not know that there is a bookmark in the document.
Step 5 - Making a hyperlink to the bookmark
1. At the top of the document, put your cursor to the right of the parenthesis mark below the title and press the Enter/Return key one time
2. Type the phrase "good advice."
3. Highlight the phrase you just typed.
4. Move your cursor to the Insert menu, click one time and scroll down to Hyperlink, click one time.
Select Place in this Document. A list of all of the bookmarks in the current document will be displayed. If there is only one bookmark, it will be the one you just created.
A dialog box will show the bookmarks that have been added in the document. Select the bookmark you just created in the steps above then click OK and the word/words are now a hyperlink. Notice that when the cursor is positioned over the hyperlink it changes to a hand and the name of the bookmark appears.

Create a Hyperlink to a document on your computer
Step 1 - Go to the chosen area of your document and highlight a phrase.
Step 2 - Go to the Insert menu and select Hyperlink.
Step 3 - This time when the Insert Hyperlink dialog box opens select Existing File or Web Page, then select File on the right side of the dialog box. If you need to review what the window looks like, Click on your link, click Back button to return.
Step 4 - A Link to File dialog box opens which will allow you to browse to find the file. From wherever you saved the file, select your file then select the OK button, then select OK in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box
Step 5 - Try the link that you just made.

Create a Hyperlink to a web site
Step 1 - Go to the document and highlight a URL. Be careful to get only the URL and not any space before or after it. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) begins with http and ends with html. After you are sure you have only the URL highlighted, go to the Edit menu and select Copy.
Step 2 - Leave the URL highlighted. You are going to make it into the link.
Step 3 - With the URL highlighted move your cursor to the Insert menu and select Hyperlink.
Step 4 - When the Insert Hyperlink window opens you will find the URL you copied has been placed into the Type the file or Web page name: box. Look carefully. Make sure that the first character is an h and not a colon or a space.
Step 5 - Select OK and try your hyperlink.

If that helps, please click the resolved link, regards Pete