link documents

[janwal]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel In a Word document I want to insert a link in a certain place in the text to another Word document on my computer, so I only need to click the link to bring up the other document on the screen. I tried the hyperlink function under Insert menu, but I just received a message about "an unexpected error". Please advice.
Word version 12.2.4
Mac OS version 10.6.2
Best,
Janne

 

[CyberTaz]

It would help if you'd indicate exactly what you did - step-by-step - in
your attempt to create the hyperlink. In order to link to "a certain place"
in the target document that "certain place" must be Bookmarked. If that
doesn't sound familiar it could be that how you went about it is what caused
the error, but you need to indicate what you did.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[janwal]

Here are some more details:
I am working a document (let me call it doc1) and referring or alluding in the text to another document (doc2), actually the entire document and not just a specific passage. In doc1 I put the curser where I want to have the link to doc2. I go to Insert menu and click on Hyperlink. On the popup menu I then click on Document and Mark. In the library that pops up, I find the name of doc2, which I mark and then click Open. In doc1 I can now see the link path in blue to doc2, but when I click the link I get the "unexpected error" message. I would want the entire document to open on the screen.
I hope this helps.
Best,
Janne

 

[John McGhie]

Both documents MUST have been saved, in their proper locations, before that
will work. And the hyperlink you create MUST be the correct type: either
"File://" if you want to open a Word document, or "HTTP://" if you want to
open a web page. If the beginning of the Hyperlink (the 'protocol') is
wrong, the system will hand the call to the wrong program, and you will get
strange effects.

Try that.

Cheers

Here are some more details:
I am working a document (let me call it doc1) and referring or alluding in the
text to another document (doc2), actually the entire document and not just a
specific passage. In doc1 I put the curser where I want to have the link to
doc2. I go to Insert menu and click on Hyperlink. On the popup menu I then
click on Document and Mark. In the library that pops up, I find the name of
doc2, which I mark and then click Open. In doc1 I can now see the link path in
blue to doc2, but when I click the link I get the "unexpected error" message.
I would want the entire document to open on the screen.
I hope this helps.
Best,
Janne

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[janwal]

Thanks! Problem solved!
/Janne

 

[John McGhie]

Excellent! Stick around, we're here to help.

Thanks! Problem solved!
/Janne

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