Error 5941 - The requested member of the collection does not exsis

[Melisa]

I am trying to include a clickable hyperlink in a form.

I am using a macro:
Sub FollowLink()
Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Follow
End Sub

When I try to click into the link, I get the message "The requested member
of the collection does not exsist". This is my first time using macros and I
am at a loss.

Can anyone help me out?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWVsaXNh?=,

I am trying to include a clickable hyperlink in a form.

I am using a macro:
Sub FollowLink()
Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Follow
End Sub

When I try to click into the link, I get the message "The requested member
of the collection does not exsist". This is my first time using macros and I
am at a loss.

Can you give more details surrounding the circumstances in which you're using
the macro? Is there a Hyperlink in the selection? (The error message says not)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Melisa]

Thanks for responding. I am creating a protected form but want to have links
within the form that are clickable.

I set the macro (as listed below), then inserted the hyperlink in the form
(while unprotected), pressed ALt + F9 to display feild codes, then I selected
the feild and pressed Ctrl + F9, then removed the spaces before and after the
URL, then pressed Alt + F9 to turn the feild code display off.

I protected the doc and tried to click on the link which is when I got the
error.

Does this info help?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Melisa,

The method you used to create "clickable links" in the form won't work,
because a field that doesn't contain a keyword (such as HYPERLINK) is
considered to be a REF field, not a hyperlink.

A somewhat complex method of creating working hyperlinks in protected forms
is given at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm.