Can't create a hyperlink in the Quick Access Toolbar

[Liam Gibbs]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to add a hyperlink button to my Quick Access Toolbar that
goes to a specific URL. So far Microsoft Word's help and the Internet
have all been useless for help. Here's what I'm doing:

I go to Customize Quick Access Toolbar and the dialog box pops open.

I select More Commands (so I can add a tiny icon to my Quick Access
Toolbar).

Go to More Commands.

Select Open Hyperlink and click Add.

Now I'm stuck. There's no way to tell it what hyperlink to open,
neither from here or when I click OK and right-click the icon on the
toolbar. Furthermore, the icon on the toolbar is always disabled.
So....... what's the point? How do I specify an actual URL and make
the icon worth putting there? Also, is there a way to add more than
one of these? I'd like to have quick access to more than one site.

At my wit's end with Microsoft.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Liam,

That Open Hyperlink button becomes active only when the cursor is on a hyperlink
in a document, and it launches that URL. It's the same command that you'll find
on the context menu if you right-click the hyperlink. (Of course, you can just
left-click the hyperlink, or Ctrl+click it if that's the way your options are
set, so the separate command is pretty useless.)

It isn't going to do you any good anyway, because most often when you want to
jump to a specific URL, that hyperlink won't be in any open document where you
can click on it.

What you need, in order to put this on the Quick Access Toolbar, is a macro that
goes to the desired URL. See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for
instructions on how to install a macro similar to this (change the macro's name
in the Sub line, the path to your favorite browser, and the URL as needed):

Sub HyperlinkMicrosoftCom()
Dim browser As String
Dim url As String

browser = "c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe"
url = "http://www.microsoft.com"

Shell browser & " " & url, vbNormalFocus
End Sub

You can add more macros that differ only in the macro name and the URL.

Once the macros are stored in your Normal.dotm template, you can go back to the
Customize dialog and select the Macros category. Add your macros to the Quick
Access Toolbar. For each one, click the Modify button and edit the name that
will appear in the tooltip, and choose an icon.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Liam Gibbs]

Ohhh, okay. I guess I misunderstood the name of the item. I'll give
your idea a shot (when I'm at home--at work right now with an older
version of Word). Thanks for the help!


...... Seemed a lot easier in older versions to put a hyperlink in the
menu than to use a macro.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Liam,

What are the steps you use to do this in the prior Word version?

===========
Ohhh, okay. I guess I misunderstood the name of the item. I'll give
your idea a shot (when I'm at home--at work right now with an older
version of Word). Thanks for the help!


...... Seemed a lot easier in older versions to put a hyperlink in the
menu than to use a macro.<<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Liam Gibbs]

Sorry for the late reply here. The steps I used... I honestly can't
remember. I think there was just an Open Hyperlink icon, but it's been
so long since I used the older version that I can't remember.

Oh and Jay, thanks so much. Works like a charm now! (Now I just have
to figure out how to change the icons because I have four macros and
their icons all look the same.)

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sorry for the late reply here. The steps I used... I honestly can't
remember. I think there was just an Open Hyperlink icon, but it's been
so long since I used the older version that I can't remember.

Oh and Jay, thanks so much. Works like a charm now! (Now I just have
to figure out how to change the icons because I have four macros and
their icons all look the same.)

In the Customize dialog, click one of the macro names in the right-hand list.
Click the Modify button to open a small dialog. There, you can do two things:
pick one of the button icons displayed (unfortunately, you can't edit them or
import icons from elsewhere, as was possible in earlier versions), and edit the
tooltip that will appear when you hover the mouse pointer on the toolbar.

Change each of your buttons as desired and then click OK.

 

[Liam Gibbs]

In the Customize dialog, click one of the macro names in the right-hand list.

Click the Modify button to open a small dialog. There, you can do two things:
pick one of the button icons displayed (unfortunately, you can't edit them or
import icons from elsewhere, as was possible in earlier versions), and edit the
tooltip that will appear when you hover the mouse pointer on the toolbar.

Change each of your buttons as desired and then click OK.

Fantastic. I'd send you a Christmas dinner, but you probably have a
thing about giving out your address on the Internet. But you're a
wizard!