Hyperlinking text but not static!

Hello newbie here…
I have a free template that is editable and can change anything I like… it is a left hand menu

  1. one
  2. two
    3.three

and so on…

when you hover over 1 -16 the text kind of magnifies … it’s very simple and effective … i can change the text to suit my site which is great but Im having trouble linking each of the sixteen individual text frames to hyperlinks…
I tried your suggestion by entering URL into the Character window but alas this doesn’t work…
Can you think of a way round this or is it impossible to actually hyperlink moving text?

Many thanx

Jeff
London uk