greyed out hyperlinks

[Tish]

I'm a 'newbie' designing first webpage. Used Publisher questions to select
pages we should have. But clicking on the page identifiers doesn't take me
to the pages....especially since I moved the pages around to an order we
preferred! I tried to add a hyperlink to the tab name, but hyperlink is
greyed out.....why? Help!

 

[Tish]

Hi David: I'm glad you replied. I've been reading your responses to other
people which have been very helpful (and I've voted them so.)

Which version of Publisher are you using?

Publisher 2007.


When you say "page identifiers" are you talking about a)the navigation bar or
b)links that are automatically produced by Publisher, or

c) are you talking about the Status bar at the bottom of the
work area?
TISH RESPONSE: I assigned letters for clarity. Choice B- On the left side
of the home page there are boxes, that I called buttons, that were in the
order Publisher decided they should be. Pages were created automatically by
Publisher corresponding to those titles. When I moved the pages into a
different order, (as demonstrated by their numbers on the bottom left of the
screen -- which I think you are telling me is called the status bar--it may
have broken some automatically created links....I don't know as I didn't
check the hyperlinks until I was ready to view my pages.

David Response 1 to Question

If you are talking about the navigation bar, when you do a web page preview,
and click on the links, does it take you to the appropriate page, or to
another page as a result of you moving the pages around?

Tish Response to David
OK. Good thing I explained I'm new. Also a 'non-tech type'. I didn't know
about Web Preview yet. Went there, and discovered hyperlinks are alive and
well, so only problem with them is that they go happily to the places
Publisher first thought they should go. If I click on my retitled 2nd
'button' on left navigation table, it takes me to the page it originally
intended for that location, not my actual page 2 (per the info on the status
#s at the bottom left of my screen.) So now I need to know how to change the
hyperlinks and am terrified you are going to give me 'some code' as I have no
clue what to do with code! I love Microsoft Wizards. (I am a volunteer for
a non profit historical society and all of this is beyond my skill level as
you can see - what's scary is that I also run our server!.) Tish P.S. Thank
you, thank you for your patient instruction.
One of the problems with being new is that it is hard to ask questions using

 

[DavidF]

Which version of Publisher are you using?

When you say "page identifiers" are you talking about the navigation bar or
links that are automatically produced by Publisher, or are you talking about
the Status bar at the bottom of the work area?

If you are talking about the navigation bar, when you do a web page preview,
and click on the links, does it take you to the appropriate page, or to
another page as a result of you moving the pages around?

One of the problems with being new is that it is hard to ask questions using
the correct terminology, and I need clarification of your problem before I
can offer an answer. Try answering my questions or describing more
specifically your problem(s).

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Tish,

Good. The fact that you are using Pub 2007 makes "fixing" your issues fairly
easy. As you discovered that reordering the pages doesn't make any
difference as a web page, as Publisher will automagically change the links
when you move the pages around. Never the less, if you want the navbar links
in a different order or to have different text, then you can edit the
navbar.

To edit the navigation bar in Publisher 2007 just click once on one of the
buttons. A wand will appear below the navbar. If you hover your mouse over
it, you will see a tool tip that says " Click to edit options for this
navigation bar". Click on the wand and the Navigation Bar Properties dialog
comes up. This where you can move the link button up or down to reorder the
navbar. Also if you click on the modify link, this leads to another dialog
where you can change the text to display in the navbar button, the title
etc. In general use these dialogs to make modifications to your navbar.
Don't try to edit the text or the links manually, or you can corrupt the
wizard. To learn more, go to help and type in "navigation".

You can also go to Tools > Web page options to change the page title.

DavidF

 

[Tish]

Problem Solved! Thank you so much. And I didn't have to insert any code at
all!!! Tish

 

[DavidF]

Tish,

Thanks for taking the time to post back. The feedback is appreciated.

Maybe we can insert code next time <g>.

DavidF