Argh!! Hyperlinks in same doc keep changing for some reason.

[smilee8_28]

I've lost my mind with this. Please help!

I have a Table of Contents (the first page of a 17 page document) where all
the titles are hyperlinks to the relative page in the document. I set up each
section title as a heading so that I am able to choose each heading after
highlighting the title in the Table of Contents, then clicking the insert
hyperlink icon and then ''Place in this Document' and the correct Heading per
the title.

Initially it seemed to work great. Then the more I used them in testing they
just began to not work. If I messed with it long enough for some reason they
would magically begin to work again but as I continue work on the document
they quit working again. I added links within the document to take the user
back up to the Table of Contents and those work fine.

All I can tell is....I will edit the hyperlink making sure it is linked to
the right heading and then if I go immediately back to make sure the edit
took it has changed from Link to: 'Place in this Document' to 'Existing File
or Web Page'. This way it seems like it's using the whole file name which
will not work once the document is moved....that is if it worked at all. At
one point I noticed that the ruler bar on top would adjust so that it is
smaller than the wording of the hyperlink but it does this automatically and
I can't change it. At one point I clicked on 'View' and set it so the Ruler
Bar is not visible and mysteriously all my links worked and continued to work
for quite awhile but again gradually quit working. I have also tried adding
Bookmarks but I guess since I already have the title formats as Headings it
considers those the same as a bookmark and won't let me add them again.

Now I am having zero luck. No matter how much I mess with it they just don't
work even though they all appear to be set up correctly.

Oh! And! The top title hyperlink for some reason always works.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Kristine

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are using Word 2000 or above, you're wasting your time, as all TOC
entries are already hyperlinked by default. In earlier versions, the page
numbers are hyperlinked. You don't need to hyperlink them manually. The way
you're doing it, every time you update the TOC, you're removing the
hyperlinks you inserted.

 

[smilee8_28]

I actually didn't know about and hadn't used the tool for creating a TOC. I
created my own. I have just now tried using the tool. All of my titles use
the Heading 3 format so under Table of Contents options I set it so Heading 3
is TOC level 1 and nothing else is marked. When I click OK for the table to
be created it doesn't find any TOC entries. Could that be because all of my
headings are inside tables themselves?

Also, knowing I did not use that tool, any ideas what the problem could be
as stated in my original question?

Kristine

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word should find Heading 3 anywhere except in a text box. Are your tables in
text boxes?