converting docx to rtf hyperlinks

[jay]

I’m using a windows XP system with Word 2007. I’m attempting to link small
files in a single older together via hyperlinks. I have changed formats to
rtf for a reason. The interlocking hyperlinks were changed by find and
replace using the alt-F9 function. Did not work. Although the alt-f9 shows
the correct rtf, the Insert-hyperlink shows docx. Why did the find and
replace not work? Is there a way of converting the docsx hyperlinks to rtf
easy?

 

[jay]

Please have mercy on me! I’m completely confused about using hyperlinks. I
have an application that I’ve been working on for months and it has evolved.
Some of the helps are now strangling me.

I am using Word 2007.

My application is a reference document. Originally it was a single 15 MB
document . . . and growing . . .with no end in sight. My intent was to make
it distributed over some 300 referenced files in the same folder on CD.
(Currently it will fit in 35MB.) I thought (naively) hyperlinks were the way
to go. My understanding of how they work and interact with locations has
caused me sleepless nights. I’ve learned a little of absolute and relative
hyperlinks – enough to get me in deeper water.

Someone gave me a macro to allow me to move the files with minimal trouble.
I know little about macros and feel “lost-er.â€

I began with DOCX and then went to RTF when I learned RTF can handle
hyperlinks. Conversion has been a bad thorn and I don’t know what the
implications on the macro are. In conversion from DOCX to RTF I learned that
by using ALT-F9 and FIND & REPLACE what you see is not what you get.

At this point I would rather find a good Word user to do the work and be
finished. Anyone know of such?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

At this point I would rather find a good Word user to do the work and be

finished. Anyone know of such?

The first thing you would have to do if you want someone else to do this
work is to define your aim/requirement as clearly as you can. Sometimes,
it's a good thing to sit down and do that anyway, even for yourself.

For example, in this case I wonder whether your reference document needs
to be in a format that will open in Word or whether in fact it would be
simpler to use ordinary HTML (rather than the funy mix that Word
exports), in which case the linking should be a lot more straightforward.

That said, what you probably need to know if you are using a

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

 

[Peter Jamieson]

That said, what you probably need to know if you are using a

What I was going to say is that the RTF format generated by Word 2007
(for example) can be very complex, with pieces of rtf coding breaking up
the visible text of your hyperlink in such a way that using find-replace
/on the .rtf text) could be very difficult. If you can do the
find-replace using VBA,
a. it should not really matter what format you are using to save the
documents,
b. you might be better off using VBA that found each hyperlink, and
then decided what to replace it with, rather than using find/replace

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk