Hyperlinking a .jpg

[GuitarGirl]

I have seen it done before but cannot figure out how to hyperlink a
..jpg to a word document.

I am creating a table with information and graphics and want to be able
to essentially insert a thumbnail of a picture that can be clicked on
to open a larger resolution file of the picture.

I insert the thumb, and try to hyperlink by navigating to the file but
the dialogue box does not show the graphic file as being selectable.

Hyperlinks are working, I know because I have successfully linked to
..doc files. Is hyperlinking to a graphic file simply NOT an option.

I do not intent to use this document on the web. It will merely be a
road map for a graphic designer who will be uploading the larger
graphic files to a site.

Any guidance would be appreciated. I am on deadline.. so am hopeful
that this group is active and knowledgable.

Thanks much.

 

[GuitarGirl]

Yes, I am CLEARLY replying to myself.

Does anyone know if this is a bug? I have actually been able to go
through with the hyperlink ONCE but then could not pull up the graphic
from within the word file.

Any guidance on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm finding that most .jpgs are grayed out in the file selection window as
well. For some reason, I was able to link a clipart image first to clipart
(but not repeat that), then to a jpg in the office/clipart/photos folder. I
tried copying some other jpgs into that folder but they remained greyed out.

The behavior is so inconsistent it does seem like it might be a bug, or at
the least not a supported feature. Apparently you can't hyperlink to pdfs,
either.

Word 2004, Panther 10.3.9

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

It's not a "bug"

A little semantic digression...

A "bug" is "When it doesn't work the way it was meant to, and we didn't know
about it before we sold it."

This is a "limitation" A "Limitation" is "When it works the way we
designed it to, but we wish it worked better."

As opposed to a "Feature". A "Feature" is "When it works the way we
designed it to, and that's the way the users wanted it."

Sorry: those in here who know me well know I have some regrettable personal
habits, and semantic digressions is one of them...

The real answer to your question is "Word won't allow you to choose a JPG as
a hyperlink destination, because it has no way to tell the file system how
to obtain the result."

The whole concept of Structured Mark-up Language processing is a "work in
progress" in Mac Word. Structured Mark-up Languages are all of the
SGML-based languages, of which HTML, xHTML and XML are of most interest to
Word.

Word on Windows is heavily dependent on the operating system. For reasons
of efficiency, memory use and disk space, it's far more efficient to use the
existing functions of the operating system than to create your own function
for each task in each application. Something like 80 per cent of the "work"
in Word is done by code that is actually part of Windows.

When Word was originally ported from Windows to Mac OS X, a whole range of
features of Windows were not available in OS X. One of the missing bits is
to do with the file system and how Mac OS X passes components of files to
requesting applications.

Apple has promised a new version of this mechanism, and Microsoft has
designed a proper HTML/XML solution around that. Microsoft thought that OS
X enhancement would be in OS 10.3, but it hasn't yet appeared.

Since the next version of Office on the Mac will use XML as its native file
format, I think we can guess that Microsoft now knows when the features will
be available Which means that the next version of Word should have HTML
capabilities far more powerful than most browsers currently have.

In the meantime, we can get it to work "sort-of" using work-arounds. For
example, if you create your hyperlink pointing to another kind of file, then
edit the hyperlink and manually correct it to point to the JPEG, it will
work some of the time. Note: Word can't display a JPEG natively, you have
to wrap the destination JPEG in an HTML page containing it.

But please be aware that the HTML ability in Office:Mac is currently a
cheap-and-nasty stop-gap measure to keep us limping along while Apple
completes their promised enhancement. It doesn't work well, and both
companies know it. It's better than nothing, I wouldn't want them to take
it away, but there's a much better solution coming.

Hope this helps

Yes, I am CLEARLY replying to myself.

Does anyone know if this is a bug? I have actually been able to go
through with the hyperlink ONCE but then could not pull up the graphic
from within the word file.

Any guidance on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks!

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