Paste as Hyperlink broken

[Bruce Sherman]

I'm using Word 2004 ver. 11.3. I have a long document (250) pages that I've
gone back to update after a couple of years. I have a number of hyperlinks
between some titles and the areas that cover later in the document.

Somehow, I now can't create new hyperlinks using the paste as hyperlink
command in the edit menu. I've played around trying various methods of
creating bookmarks and trying to use them, but to no avail.

The link created when I do it now returns me to the top of the document.

Can anybody help?

Thanks

Bruce

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Bruce:

Messy! The simplest explanation I can give you is that "it's broken". I am
not sure when it broke, but it's a horrible mess now

The hyperlink is a field. If you reveal field codes in the document, you
will immediately see what's wrong... For each hyperlink, two bookmarks are
created: the link (_Hlk00000) and the target (_Hlt00000).

If you go to Insert>Bookmark and enable display of the hidden bookmarks, you
will see them both. The Hyperlink field should contain the HTL (hyperlink
target) bookmark in its anchor. Instead, it contains the HLK (Hyperlink
Source) bookmark.

If you click on the hyperlink, the bookmark can't be found (it's actually
"inside" the hyperlink). So Word takes you to the top of the document.

If you create your own bookmark, then use Insert>Hyperlink or Command K, you
can then choose the bookmark you have created. If you do, the hyperlink
will work.

Interesting bug. I suspect it may have something to do with removal of
reliance on the Internet Explorer software for HTML functionality. It used
to work, but IE has gotten a bit old, so they removed reliance on its
components in the current version of Word. Obviously forgot to test the
Paste Hyperlink function when they did.

If you do a Help>Send Feedback, you can put in a bug report on this

Cheers

I'm using Word 2004 ver. 11.3. I have a long document (250) pages that I've
gone back to update after a couple of years. I have a number of hyperlinks
between some titles and the areas that cover later in the document.

Somehow, I now can't create new hyperlinks using the paste as hyperlink
command in the edit menu. I've played around trying various methods of
creating bookmarks and trying to use them, but to no avail.

The link created when I do it now returns me to the top of the document.

Can anybody help?

Thanks

Bruce

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You may want to wait for a more knowledgeable reply than mine but...
a. Paste as Hyperlink doesn't work here either - i.e. the hyperlinks
created do not work.
b. However, if you show the field codes the Hyperlink field will probably
look something like this:

{ HYPERLINK \l "_Hlk30909727%091,389,401,90,,targettext" }

If I remove everything after the "%" leaving

{ HYPERLINK \l "_Hlk30909727" }

then update the field code, the hyperlink works here.

If you're saving your document as an HTML file or are trying to link outside
the current document, that's probably not going to be enough.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Bruce Sherman]

Thanks for the hints. I had gotten as far as looking at the actual bookmark
created. My show bookmarks doesn't seem to reveal them in the main body, but
I can find them. I hate to have to do a work around because I'm using it all
through a document, but will have to now, and will also send off a bug
report.

Bruce

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Bruce:

These are "Hidden Bookmarks". Any bookmark that begins with an underscore
as the first character is hidden by default.

You can enable display of hidden bookmarks in Insert>Bookmark...

Cheers

Thanks for the hints. I had gotten as far as looking at the actual bookmark
created. My show bookmarks doesn't seem to reveal them in the main body, but
I can find them. I hate to have to do a work around because I'm using it all
through a document, but will have to now, and will also send off a bug
report.

Bruce

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410