Hyperlinks Only Work When Forms are Unprotected

[gmcauley]

In a Word 2003 document with Form Fields and Hyperlinks, I am seeing this
behavior:

Case 1: When hovering over a hyperlink a bubble pops up saying to hold down
the 'Cntrl' key and click the link. If the form is not protected the 'I'
cursor turns into a 'hand' cursor when I hold down the Cntrl key, and when I
click I am able to follow the link.

Case 2: However, when the form is protected, hovering over the cursor shows
an 'arrow' cursor which does not change when I press the Cntrl key, and when
I click the link, nothing happens. If I choose View->Toolbars->Forms and
then click the toggle button on the far right (protect/unprotect form) so the
form is not protected, then everything works fine (case 1).

What this means is I cannot have working hyperlinks without unlocking the
form, which is something I definitely do not want to do.

Is there a way to have hyperlinks and locked forms in Word 2003?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm .

 

[gmcauley]

Thank you garfield-n-odie for your reply.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm .

Tried this. It was interesting, but there are three problems:

1) Requires double-click which, especially without instructions, will not be
what a user expects. My document will distributed over the web so as I
understand it, I won't be able to set Options based on Templates like the tip
discusses.

2) Requires macros which some users might not want to turn on.

3) The cursor does not change when hovering over a link. Again not what
users expect from a hyperlink.

So, I thought I'd try protecting by 'Sections' which I heard you could do in
Word. Ie, put links in unprotected sections, and fields in protected
sections. Not sure if I will be able to practically divided my document this
way since links may be mixed in with fields.

Do you have any other suggestions?