Creating a Hyperlink to a Bookmark in Publisher 2003

[Justin Drerup]

I am creating an email newsletter in Publisher 2003. All works
fine...

I have a menu at the top of the newsletter that I want to hyperlink to
the appropriate sections within the newsletter (essentially using the
bookmark function of HTML).

<a name="Section1">

How on earth can I:
1. Create Bookmarks in the publication (in either publication or HTML
mode?)
2. Link to bookmarks within the same page of the publication?

I have tried inserting HTML Fragments but this just seems to create a
visual representation of the actual HTML in a new text box rather than
creating the hyperlink.

There seems to be no 'Insert Bookmark feature'
The hyperlink tool seems to only allow me to make references to a
bookmark which is the actual page itself?

I must be missing something, such a simple and necessary feature can't
be missing or that difficult to do!

Thanks

 

[Justin Drerup]

Hi David, thanks very much for the response.

I unfortunately am not having much success... Let me try explain.

* I am working with version 2003.
* I am making an HTML newsletter to email out to people.
* I want to send out the email from Publisher 2003.

* I assume that I have to be working with a 'web publication' not a
'print publication' for this to work.

* I go to the section/heading in the newsletter and select the heading
(in this case 'Contact')that I want to create an anchor/bookmark with.

* I choose Insert / HTML Fragment from the menu and type in the
appropriate HTML: <a name="#Contact"></a>

* This creates a floating div/frame showing the HTML I have just
entered. The frame seems to float in no particular position related
to where I placed the cursor before entering the fragment.

* There is no visual association between the heading I have selected,
Contact and the HTML fragment I have just entered.

* I select the Menu item (in this case, 'go to Contact' at the top of
my publication, select the words and then choose Hyperlink.

* I choose an existing address and enter #Contact in the address
field. (I can't put in index.htm#Contact or similar as this will be
sent as an email and I don't know what the file name will be?)

* If I go back to this hyperlink it always strips out the #Contact I
have entered. If I enter index.htm#Contact and then close and reopen
the hyperlink it changes to index.htm#ontact (strips out the C)

* If I enter index.htm#Contact in the hyperlink and go File / Web Page
Preview the hyperlink works as the temporary page is called index.htm
and it is able to find the Contact Anchor/Bookmark.

* If I send the publication as an email then the hyperlink i created
a. Exists if it is index.htm#Contact (but won't work as index.htm
doesn't exist)
b. Doesn't appear if I just enter #Contact (as it appears that
Publisher strips it out)

* In addition, the HTML Fragment appears as exactly that in the email
- it seems to become a part of an image (why does Publisher convert
the emails to an image?) and appears as HTML.

Ultimately I think that I might be trying to achieve something in
Publisher that it is not capable of doing...

I just want to make a simple email newsletter using standard HTML
features and email it out as HTML.

I thought Publisher was going to make this easy for me but it seems
like I am barking up the wrong tree!

A suggestion for future editions: Improve the tools for creating email
newsletters!

 

[Bobby Mac - Chicago,IL]

I was having a similar problem. Using Producer 2003, trying to add bookmarks to my website. However, David Bartosik of www.davidbartosik.com article really helped me out in order to custom script the solution

However, having to custom script out the hyperlinks by
1. Insert--> HTML Code Fragement --> typing <A NAME="filename.htm#location_on_page"></A> for the location was easy

2. HARD PART: Insert--> HTML Code Fragement --> typing <A HREF="filename.htm#location_on_page">Go to Link name location on filename page</A> in the correct location was a pai

2a. You have to cut your typed text in a certain location where the html tag was entered, then paste it in the same exact location that has your new tag (Go to ...

Try these 2 steps and it works in Producer 2003

I found this out after wasting several hours and several Advil. I wish microsoft would have kept made bookmarks accessible for web applications as they are in Frontpage and Word. But, that must just be the sleeplessness, headackes, or irration over this matter that could have been avoided.

Bobby McAvoy - Chicago, IL

 

[Bobby Mac - Chicago, IL]

In reference to my first message above, I forgot to mention one VERY IMPORTANT thing

You must select the pages in Producer 2003 to not be saved under the "index_files" folder

Do this by going into the "Web Page Options"-->"Web Site Options"-->& deselect the option to "Save supporting files in a folder" (which should save every page on the website on a seperate page i.e. index.htm & index_page2.htm

This works for web pages b/c of a single folder linking scheme, however I am not sure whether or not it will work an the email application

Bobby Mac - Chicago, IL