hyperlinks are not working

[vin]

Help me please!

I have been trying to open my grandfather's microsoft word 2000 (using xp, if
that is relevant) on my beautiful mac running leopard with microsoft office
2008 for mac. It is an extremely large file (nearly 300 pages) with many
hyperlinks. He has saved it to a disk in 2 folders, one is the bulk of the
text, the 300 pages, and the other folder contains each hyperlink saved
individually. I have successfully downloaded the 2 folders to my mac, but
when I open the 300 pg doc, the hyperlinks do not work. So I next opened both
folders in separate windows, did command a to select all hyperlinks, switched
back over to the 300 page doc and also selected that one, right clicked hit
open with word, and ta da, hyperlinks worked. So naturally I decided to hit
save as (selected 97-2003 word doc) realized I was trying to save it onto the
disc, changed locations to my doc. Closed word after saving, hit eject (to
make sure I would open newly saved and corrected file) reopened word and my
new hyperlinked corrected doc, and uh-oh - hyperlinks no longer worked. WTF!!!
So are there any other hyperlinked savvy mac folk that can help me with this
extremely annoying problem, would love to be saved from this on coming
migraine. I really don't miss pc's and I have only just recently with in the
last year switched. Funny thing is I am not as of yet super mac savvy but I
have forgotten so much of PC/Word how to's and happily forgot about bugs,
until now.

 

[John McGhie]

Sorry, not enough information to answer!!

Yes, I realise you gave heaps of information, but you left out the critical
bit I need to answer this question: Which version of Word are you using,
and what revision level (service pack) do you have?

I suspect you have been hit by the "Word changes hyperlinks" bug, but I am
not sure.

Cheers

Help me please!

I have been trying to open my grandfather's microsoft word 2000 (using xp, if
that is relevant) on my beautiful mac running leopard with microsoft office
2008 for mac. It is an extremely large file (nearly 300 pages) with many
hyperlinks. He has saved it to a disk in 2 folders, one is the bulk of the
text, the 300 pages, and the other folder contains each hyperlink saved
individually. I have successfully downloaded the 2 folders to my mac, but
when I open the 300 pg doc, the hyperlinks do not work. So I next opened both
folders in separate windows, did command a to select all hyperlinks, switched
back over to the 300 page doc and also selected that one, right clicked hit
open with word, and ta da, hyperlinks worked. So naturally I decided to hit
save as (selected 97-2003 word doc) realized I was trying to save it onto the
disc, changed locations to my doc. Closed word after saving, hit eject (to
make sure I would open newly saved and corrected file) reopened word and my
new hyperlinked corrected doc, and uh-oh - hyperlinks no longer worked. WTF!!!
So are there any other hyperlinked savvy mac folk that can help me with this
extremely annoying problem, would love to be saved from this on coming
migraine. I really don't miss pc's and I have only just recently with in the
last year switched. Funny thing is I am not as of yet super mac savvy but I
have forgotten so much of PC/Word how to's and happily forgot about bugs,
until now.

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[vin via MacKB.com]

the original file was created with word 2000 i believe service pack 2

i am using office 2008 for mac, version 12.1.3 (that was the latest update i
installed)

let me know if u need more info.

thanks John

Sorry, not enough information to answer!!

Yes, I realise you gave heaps of information, but you left out the critical
bit I need to answer this question: Which version of Word are you using,
and what revision level (service pack) do you have?

I suspect you have been hit by the "Word changes hyperlinks" bug, but I am
not sure.

Cheers

Help me please!

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have forgotten so much of PC/Word how to's and happily forgot about bugs,
until now.

 

[John McGhie]

Ah, right: You don't have the "Word changes hyperlinks" bug, you have the
"Word creates bad hyperlinks" bug.

Word has this sad obsession that all files you hyperlink to will be in the
same folder as the document you are linking FROM.

Right-click one of your hyperlinks and choose "Toggle Field Codes". You
will see that the path is either missing, or wrong, although the file name
is correct.

Navigate to the file in Finder, right-click and choose the "Copy file path"
Automator action.

Now right-click the hyperlink and choose Hyperlink>Edit.

Make sure you correct the "type" from "Web page" to "Document", then paste
the fill path and file name in.

Save it, and that hyperlink will be OK from there.

Hope this helps

the original file was created with word 2000 i believe service pack 2

i am using office 2008 for mac, version 12.1.3 (that was the latest update i
installed)

let me know if u need more info.

thanks John

Sorry, not enough information to answer!!

Yes, I realise you gave heaps of information, but you left out the critical
bit I need to answer this question: Which version of Word are you using,
and what revision level (service pack) do you have?

I suspect you have been hit by the "Word changes hyperlinks" bug, but I am
not sure.

Cheers

Help me please!

[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]

have forgotten so much of PC/Word how to's and happily forgot about bugs,
until now.

--

Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]