Hyperlink placed in current document issue

[Fi]

I use Word 2003 SP2 and have a 4 page document which is a basic newsletter. I
have set bookmarks against 10 headings in the document and set up hyperlinks
to those bookmarks to aid the reader to navigate backwards and forwards
through the document.

Issue is that I can use the links to move through the document but when
click links to go back to previous headings the link changes from blue to
purple to show its been selected but does not move to the booked marked
heading. I have checked the fields is applied (ALT+F9 and it shows field
e.g.{hyperlink \l "bookmarkname". I have tried recreating the bookmarks and
associating the hyperlink. I am now at a loss as to what I can do. Are there
known errors/issues using hyperlinks in Word 2003.

Grateful for any ideas?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that you can press Alt+Left arrow to go back to a previous location.
Does that help?

 

[Fi]

Its a work around but not quite what I am after, sorry do not want to sound
ungrateful as any help is appreciative.

Also I forgot to mention the layout of this document is in a table. Does
putting hyperlinks in a table restrict the way they work?

 

[Stefan Blom]

I don't know of any issue with hyperlinks in table cells. Can you reproduce
the problem in another document?

 

[Fi]

I recreated a document from scratch with test data, in a table and heading
links and all worked as I expected.
I then recreated the document by copying and pasting the data from the
original in to the new table layout and same issues occured. As soon as you
got to the last page you could not click on a link to navigate back to
another page. Therefore is the suggestion that the data is somehow retaining
some sort of corrupt data (I even stripped out all styles and recreated new
headings for the hyperlinks to work from)?

In the end I recreated the whole document with similar look and feel but
used Columns and it all worked fine. Really confused what was restricting
the hyperlinks in the table?

 

[Stefan Blom]

It certainly seems as if you've encountered some sort of weird corruption.

I'm glad you got it sorted.