Hyperlinking from a picture to a place on another page

[profdruk]

I've read various posts on hyperlinking, bookmarking, thumbnailing, etc., but
feel that my issue is somewhat different. I'm using Publisher 2003. I have a
group picture of teachers from our school. I have blocked out all the
individual teachers in the group photo, and each has a section on another
page where they have written some personal information and their impressions
of our school. There are quite a few teachers, so these descriptions (which
also have a few action pictures) are on several diferent pages. How can I
link from their section of the group picture to their descriptive paragraph
on another page? Sorry for the long question but I wanted to make it clear.
Thanks for any help.

 

[DavidF]

Several points of clarification...are you wanting to point at a particular
person in a group photo, and have a link take you to that person's page? In
other words, are you saying that you want multiple links from one group
picture?

What do you mean when you say that you have all the individual teachers
"blocked out"?

Do you have the names of the teachers below the group photo, and would it be
ok to create the links to the individual teacher pages from that text? This
would be much easier to accomplish if I am understanding you correctly.

DavidF

 

[profdruk]

Hey thanks, and sorry for the lack of clarity. I want to point to a
particular person in a group photo and take me to a page. But I don't have
enough on each teacher to waqrrant their own page, so I have several on the
page. I want to be able to go to the page where their story is. I'd like to
be able to go to the spot on the page where they are, not just to the top of
the page. When I said "blocked out" I mean that I had made a box around their
heads and as much of their bodies as I could without overlapping.

I don't have their names on the page but that sounds like a good idea if it
would be easier.

 

[DavidF]

Ok. I don't have time to answer you right now, but will sometime today. Stay
tuned.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

You can do it either way, but both require some hyperlinked text...or at
least that is the only way I can work it out at this point.

First use the insert html code fragment to insert achors on each page that
you want to go to. Here is a sample anchor"

<A HREF="#READHERE1"></A>

Put this beside the first teacher's information. The code fragment box will
not show when you preview or publish the page. Then perhaps:

<A HREF="#READHERE2"></A>

beside the second teacher's information. Create anchors for each teacher.

Then if you want a link on the group picture, you will have to create
individual text boxes, with perhaps the teachers name in it...or "click
here", or a symbol...and insert the following hyperlink:

<A HREF=http://yourdomainname.com/index_files/Page352.htm#READHERE1>

and

<A HREF=http://yourdomainname.com/index_files/Page398.htm#READHERE2>

for the second teacher, etc.

I would suggest that you build these links in a text box in the scratch area
so that you can simply copy and paste them into the hyperlink dialog, rather
than typing each one. Obviously, you need to switch out the domain name for
your own, and I made the assumption that you are using the supporting folder
"index_files". The pain is figuring out the name of the page. Publisher 2003
is arbitrary about how it names pages, unless you give them a custom name.
So either give each page a custom name or do a web page preview of each page
and look in the address bar of the browser to determine what the Page***.htm
will be where the anchor is.

I suspect that this is going to make the group picture pretty ugly, but I
don't know of any other easy way to do this.

In theory you should be able to insert a hotspot for each picture, that
would not have any text, but I don't know how to do that in Publisher, and
think that would be a mistake anyway. It is too hard to define where the
hotspot would be, and where the viewer would have to click.

The better alternative, in my opinion is to do a text box below the group
picture, and list the names of all the teachers as per row in the picture,
left to right and all that stuff, and then hyperlink the teacher's name to
the anchor.

Watch out to match upper and lower case, and make sure when you write the
links that you don't add extra spaces and such. That is why I would produce
them all in a text box in the scratch area, and just copy and paste the code
snippets in the dialog of the hyperlink.

Good luck.

DavidF

 

[profdruk]

Thank you very much, David. You are the man!

You can do it either way, but both require some hyperlinked text...or at
least that is the only way I can work it out at this point.

First use the insert html code fragment to insert achors on each page that
you want to go to. Here is a sample anchor"

<A HREF="#READHERE1"></A>

Put this beside the first teacher's information. The code fragment box will
not show when you preview or publish the page. Then perhaps:

<A HREF="#READHERE2"></A>

beside the second teacher's information. Create anchors for each teacher.

Then if you want a link on the group picture, you will have to create
individual text boxes, with perhaps the teachers name in it...or "click
here", or a symbol...and insert the following hyperlink:

<A HREF=http://yourdomainname.com/index_files/Page352.htm#READHERE1>

and

<A HREF=http://yourdomainname.com/index_files/Page398.htm#READHERE2>

for the second teacher, etc.

I would suggest that you build these links in a text box in the scratch area
so that you can simply copy and paste them into the hyperlink dialog, rather
than typing each one. Obviously, you need to switch out the domain name for
your own, and I made the assumption that you are using the supporting folder
"index_files". The pain is figuring out the name of the page. Publisher 2003
is arbitrary about how it names pages, unless you give them a custom name.
So either give each page a custom name or do a web page preview of each page
and look in the address bar of the browser to determine what the Page***.htm
will be where the anchor is.

I suspect that this is going to make the group picture pretty ugly, but I
don't know of any other easy way to do this.

In theory you should be able to insert a hotspot for each picture, that
would not have any text, but I don't know how to do that in Publisher, and
think that would be a mistake anyway. It is too hard to define where the
hotspot would be, and where the viewer would have to click.

The better alternative, in my opinion is to do a text box below the group
picture, and list the names of all the teachers as per row in the picture,
left to right and all that stuff, and then hyperlink the teacher's name to
the anchor.

Watch out to match upper and lower case, and make sure when you write the
links that you don't add extra spaces and such. That is why I would produce
them all in a text box in the scratch area, and just copy and paste the code
snippets in the dialog of the hyperlink.

Good luck.

DavidF

 

[Julie Burton]

Hi David

I followed your instructions for anchoring text from one page and inserting
a hyperlink from another, unfortunately it didn't work and I get the
following url when I've uploaded to the hosting site and click on the
hyperlink.

http://www.mydomain.org.uk/index_files/<A HREF=http:/mydomain.org.
uk/index_files/Page2.htm#READHERE1>

Any ideas how I might fix this?

Julie

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