Hyperlink mechanism gone awry on MS Word - Advice sought

[RichardOnRails]

I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.

Starting yesterday:
I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to
it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index
and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did
earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z
\u}

Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http://
code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I
expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead
got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" }
(My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in
its entirety.)

Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/
cleaned 6 problematic
things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-(

The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these
two days) on this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...b4e29f64fd0/90347b8fee3c5c9d#90347b8fee3c5c9d

Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

 

[RichardOnRails]

I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.

Starting yesterday:
I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to
it.  Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index
and Tables | Table of Contents.  Instead of getting a TOC as I did
earlier today,  I now got  an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z
\u}

Additional symptom:  Inside the same Word document,  I typed "http://
code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter.  I
expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead
got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" }
(My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in
its entirety.)

Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/
cleaned 6 problematic
things.  However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-(

The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these
two days) on this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/browse_t...

Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my
browser (Firefox 3.6.13), the third paragraph in my original post,
following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string:
http://code.google.
com/p/msysgit/
(written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in
double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes,
which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document.

I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the
symptom I'm trying counter.

Best wishes,
Richard

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've just toggled on the display of field codes instead of field results.
Press Alt+F9 to toggle back.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.

Starting yesterday:
I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to
it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index
and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did
earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z
\u}

Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http://
code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I
expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead
got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" }
(My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in
its entirety.)

Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/
cleaned 6 problematic
things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-(

The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these
two days) on this
thread:http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/browse_t...

Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my
browser (Firefox 3.6.13), the third paragraph in my original post,
following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string:
http://code.google.
com/p/msysgit/
(written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in
double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes,
which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document.

I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the
symptom I'm trying counter.

Best wishes,
Richard

 

[RichardOnRails]

You've just toggled on the display of field codes instead of field results.
Press Alt+F9 to toggle back.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

message







When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my
browser (Firefox 3.6.13),  the third paragraph in my original post,
following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string:
   http://code.google.
    com/p/msysgit/
(written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in
double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes,
which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document.

I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the
symptom I'm trying counter.

Best wishes,
Richard

Hi Suzanne,

Thank you very much for unraveling this mystery. I tried it and got
my beloved links back, which is great.

Furthermore, I was very confident the you were right because I was
clumsily defining Ctrl- and Ctrl-Shift- for the F9 key prior to this
mishap. No doubt I accidentally changed Word's normal response to Alt-
F9.in the process.

You're an Angel.

Best wishes,
Richard