using target property of hyperlink in Word 2007

[Patrick Bae]

Hi,

I have a hyperlink in Word 2007 with "Target Frame" set to an existing
browser. But when I click on the link, it always opens a new browser instead
of using the existing browser. How can I make it so that it uses the
existing browser?

Thanks.

Seong

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Seong,

It's often the browser settings that can impact this if you're opening from a Word document in Word rather than a Word web document
from your browser and where your Word document is a single frame (i.e. not a frame set).

If you're using IE7 with Tabbed Browsing enabled, those settings in IE7 will take precedence.

If you're using IE7 without Tabbed Browsing then the setting in
Tools=>Internet Options=>Advanced
to reuse shortcuts will allow a document to open in the existing window, else it will likely call IE7 which then determines it needs
to run a new instance/window.

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Hi,

I have a hyperlink in Word 2007 with "Target Frame" set to an existing
browser. But when I click on the link, it always opens a new browser instead
of using the existing browser. How can I make it so that it uses the
existing browser?

Thanks.

Seong>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Seong Bae]

Hi Bob,

First of all, thanks for taking time to reply. However, that does not solve
the problem I am having. If I turn off the tabs and check the "Reuse.."
option, and say I have 4 browsers open, clicking on the hyperlink in the word
document always uses the browser instance that was last launched.

What I'm trying to do is this: I have 4 browsers running. But only one of
them has frame name set to "mybrowser". (I did this by opening the browser
using javascript method window.open("page.html","mybrowser","....")) Now,
within the hyperlink in the word document, I set the target frame to
"mybrowser" So theoretically, when I click on the link, it should reuse the
browser that has name "mybrowser", not the last launched browser.

When the only browser instance that's running is "mybrowser", clicking on
the link opens a new browser, even with tab off and reuse option checked. So
there's something really funky going on here.

Seong Bae

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Seong,

Are you using the Hyperlink dialog or manually entering the field.

The Hyperlink 'target' can be used within a frameset. Unless you're supplying the Hyperlink Base Information to Word
Office Button=>Prepare=>Properties=>Advanced=>General
so Word sees an Open document and named frame with the document open or you can create the Frameset within Word. Note that if
another user has browser options set contrary to yours, their viewing choices usually take precedence.

Word doesn't usually 'see' a name of a target owned by a different application. When you use Ctrl+K to create a hyperlink and click
on the 'Target' dialog is the frame name you're looking to reach listed there?

Word 2007 no longer has the Frame(set) tools and toolbar and the Ribbon. You can create a template to use for Web pages and add the
commands to a custom Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) (Alt, T, O, C)
Office Button=>Word Options=>Customize

Add to the QAT the Commands not in the ribbon of

Delete Frame
Frames
Frame Properties
New Frame Above
New Frame Below
New Frame Left
New Frame Right

When you save a frameset from within Word it will save all of the frames.

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Hi Bob,

First of all, thanks for taking time to reply. However, that does not solve
the problem I am having. If I turn off the tabs and check the "Reuse.."
option, and say I have 4 browsers open, clicking on the hyperlink in the word
document always uses the browser instance that was last launched.

What I'm trying to do is this: I have 4 browsers running. But only one of
them has frame name set to "mybrowser". (I did this by opening the browser
using javascript method window.open("page.html","mybrowser","....")) Now,
within the hyperlink in the word document, I set the target frame to
"mybrowser" So theoretically, when I click on the link, it should reuse the
browser that has name "mybrowser", not the last launched browser.

When the only browser instance that's running is "mybrowser", clicking on
the link opens a new browser, even with tab off and reuse option checked. So
there's something really funky going on here.

Seong Bae >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Seong Bae]

Hi Bob,

Yes, the target is specified in the properties of the hyperlink.

Easier way to explain this is ... say I have a word(2007) document with one
hyperlink in it. The hyperlink was created by going to Insert -> Hyperlink.
"Target Frame" has been set as "MyBrowser". I save the file as word document
and at the same time, save it as HTML file. When I open the HTML version of
the file in the browser and look at the source code, it shows <a
href="http://somelink" target="MyBrowser">. So far so good.

Now, I have a browser named "MyBrowser" up and running. When I click on the
hyperlink from HTML version of the saved file, it uses the existing browser
because the names match. But when I click on the link from word document, it
opens up a new browser. If the links in both files are same (same url, same
target), why are they producing different results?

Seong Bae