Automatically replacing text with links...

[Kris]

Hi everybody!

Here's the story... I e-mailed a document to myself to avoid losing it when
my computer was being a bit schizo and refusing to save on any of my drives.
Somehow e-mailing this doc messed up all of my footnotes with linked sources
when I resaved it on our shared network drive, so none of them work any
longer. I had actually made the text of the link exactly the same as the
linked file path. So here is myquestion, is it possible to write a macro that
cycles through all the footnotes, highlights all the link text, and then
replaces the hyperlink to be that link text?

Thanks!
Kris

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hi everybody!

Here's the story... I e-mailed a document to myself to avoid losing it when
my computer was being a bit schizo and refusing to save on any of my drives.
Somehow e-mailing this doc messed up all of my footnotes with linked sources
when I resaved it on our shared network drive, so none of them work any
longer. I had actually made the text of the link exactly the same as the
linked file path. So here is myquestion, is it possible to write a macro that
cycles through all the footnotes, highlights all the link text, and then
replaces the hyperlink to be that link text?

Yu probably do not need a macro for that.

Do CTRL-F9 to toggle the field code display.
Now, do a Find/Replace to replace the link info.
Do CTRL-F9 again to toggle the field value display.

 

[Lene Fredborg]

....Ctrl+F9 should have been Alt+F9.

Alt+F9 toggles field codes. Ctrl+F9 inserts a new field.

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Regards
Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

 

[macropod]

Hi Kris,

You might like to use my Field Link Updater:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=261488

Atlernatively, you might find it more useful to recorde the fields to use relative paths for the links. To see how to do that, check
out the solution I've posted at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=670027

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

...Ctrl+F9 should have been Alt+F9.

Alt+F9 toggles field codes. Ctrl+F9 inserts a new field.

Ooops!
Very true!
Another case of dysfunctionality between the chair and the screen!