Hyperlinks

I’m starting a blog. I’m trying to link to a page and I tried the href hyperlink. It was just text so I looked up how to hyperlink.

I don’t have the link icon in my toolbar over the word. I’m on an iPad and I’m using a self-hosted domain.

I’m in Block mode now but I remember years ago that I had a toolbar across the top of my WordPress pages. I didn’t use WordPress for many years due to a coma. I feel bad that I can’t remember how to link without the icon .

Could you please help with this?