Office 2004 for Mac Does Word support Secure Hyperlink creation?

[trux]

Hello all,

I am the software library and licensing assistant at a 2-year college.
The college's Mac tech has discovered that he can not create a secure
hyperlink in Office Word 2004 for Mac. He can create the link by
creating a web page. Is there a fix for this problem.

SoftwareDesk (aka trux)

 

[William Smith]

Hello all,

I am the software library and licensing assistant at a 2-year college.
The college's Mac tech has discovered that he can not create a secure
hyperlink in Office Word 2004 for Mac. He can create the link by
creating a web page. Is there a fix for this problem.

I did a quick Google search on this but found nothing, so I'll ask...
What is a "secure hyperlink"?

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[CyberTaz]

Thanks for blazing the trail, Bill I was writing it off to my own
ignorance and inexperience, but if *you* don't know either I don't feel
quite so bad%>}

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

 

[John McGhie]

I think this is coming out a bit "sideways".

There is no such thing as a "secure" hyperlink.

There are hyperlinks that point at "secure" web servers, which negotiate an
encrypted connection between the requesting browser and themselves.

If that's what he means, your question is confusing the disease with the
symptom

Your Mac Tech is quite correct in that Word does not support the HTTPS
(Hypertext Transport Protocol - Secure) protocol, and will not open
hyperlinks that require it.

Word is not a browser, and it does not have an encryption engine available
for the purpose. Which is a missing feature that's getting a bit old by
now: it's high time they fixed that.

However, the only way you can create a "secure" web page is to create that
page on a server that supports HTTPS (Hypertext Transport Protocol -
Secure).

If he does that AND uses "HTTPS://page name..." as the URL, the browser will
attempt to negotiate an encrypted connection to the web server to display
that page.

Hope this helps

On 2/11/07 1:47 AM, in article
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Hello all,

I am the software library and licensing assistant at a 2-year college.
The college's Mac tech has discovered that he can not create a secure
hyperlink in Office Word 2004 for Mac. He can create the link by
creating a web page. Is there a fix for this problem.

SoftwareDesk (aka trux)


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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[trux]

I did a quick Google search on this but found nothing, so I'll ask...
What is a "secure hyperlink"?

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Morning Bill,

Sorry for the confusion and as John McGhie indicates my description of
the problem was as clear as mud. In my haste to help the tech I did
not get a firm handle on what he was asking. Anyway, thank you for
your response and getting the ball rolling in the right direction.

SoftwareDesk (aka trux)

 

[trux]

Morning John McChie,

Thank you for responding and clearing up the confusion I caused with
my description of the problem the Mac Tech is having. I will let the
tech know and again thank you very much for your assistance.

SoftwareDesk (aka trux)

 

[John McGhie]

I just wish I had been able to help you with the PROBLEM

"Word won't open secure web pages" is hardly a satisfactory answer. But
it's the only one we have.

And before you ask: Word processes a paste from a web page open in a
browser very badly!!

Sorry: You can't get there from here.... The only thing you can do is to
open the web page in a browser, paste into Word as plain text, and reformat
he result when you get it. Not nice...

Cheers

On 3/11/07 1:37 AM, in article
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Morning John McChie,

Thank you for responding and clearing up the confusion I caused with
my description of the problem the Mac Tech is having. I will let the
tech know and again thank you very much for your assistance.

SoftwareDesk (aka trux)

I think this is coming out a bit "sideways".

There is no such thing as a "secure" hyperlink.

There are hyperlinks that point at "secure" web servers, which negotiate an
encrypted connection between the requesting browser and themselves.

If that's what he means, your question is confusing the disease with the
symptom

Your Mac Tech is quite correct in that Word does not support the HTTPS
(Hypertext Transport Protocol - Secure) protocol, and will not open
hyperlinks that require it.

Word is not a browser, and it does not have an encryption engine available
for the purpose. Which is a missing feature that's getting a bit old by
now: it's high time they fixed that.

However, the only way you can create a "secure" web page is to create that
page on a server that supports HTTPS (Hypertext Transport Protocol -
Secure).

If he does that AND uses "HTTPS://page name..." as the URL, the browser will
attempt to negotiate an encrypted connection to the web server to display
that page.

Hope this helps

On 2/11/07 1:47 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "(e-mail address removed)"


Hello all,

I am the software library and licensing assistant at a 2-year college.
The college's Mac tech has discovered that he can not create a secure
hyperlink in Office Word 2004 for Mac. He can create the link by
creating a web page. Is there a fix for this problem.

SoftwareDesk (aka trux)

--
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, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltdhttp://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33ƒ53'34.20 E151ƒ14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

--
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, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[rrrahl]

While there is really no fix for this problem, there may be a work-
around solution. This presupposes that the problem occurs when saving
the Word document as a Web page. The only way you can insert a
functioning hyperlink which begins with https:// is to use http://
(without the "s") in the Word document, save it as a Web page and then
use a text editor like TextEdit or BBedit to edit the resulting .htm
file to insert the "s" and resave the document. This should be done
after you have polished everything else in the document to perfection
and are ready to "publish" it. Otherwise, further edits using Word
2004 will undo the https:// link and the text editing will have to be
done again. I hope this helps.

Robert R.