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Why doesn't MS Visio insert a hyperlink in my UML drawing?

I failed with inserting a hyperlink in a innocuous simple UML static diagram. I started with what I do every day in my email and MS Word: <ctrl>+k etc. After "OK" however he mouse  remained displaying hyperlink icon, but no hyperlink in the document can be found. I could not find a way to return mouse pointer to its regular icon -- just arrow. Even after restart the computer, the pointer on this document is “hyperlink”.
I also could not find anything in the documentation that I might not be able to write myself.
Please see the attached image and help. (Please, no “Format c:”,  “Reinstall” Office and or Windows. “Just in case”).
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You have to click on a shape then you can add the hyperlink with ctrl-K,

for instance click on user3.mynet.local it will bring you experts-exchange in the enclosed pdf
mynet.pdf
mynet.vsd
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>>select a specific object before you type Ctrl+K.
... and what? Where is it? How can I use it? I just want to insert a hyperlink with display text: "See also:". Is Visio so bad with this that it is doesn't "understand" it?
Thanks, anyway.