Word 2007: Bookmarks & hyperlinks

[Mary in Toronto]

I have created bookmarks & hyperlinks to go to them; this document resides
on a SharePoint site but I have checked it out. When I select the hyperlink
I get 'Opening <filename> Some files can contain viruses ...." Why does the
hyperlink simply not take me to the bookmark??

Thanks for any help provided.

 

[vttotal]

Hi Mary,

I am not quite clear on what the hyperlinks are doing(are they linking you
to other documents, websites, emails?). Are you using bookmark for your
document or the webpage?

I would appreciate if you can give me some additional info so I can be of
greater help,

Thanks

 

[Mary in Toronto]

I'm using bookmarks as locations in a doc to go to. The front page would
have a manually made table of contents with hyperlinks going to those
bookmarks.

In previous versions of Word, this always worked. This version's asking to
open a file ... which is already open.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is there some reason you're not using a TOC field to generate a TOC
automatically? TOC entries are bookmarked automatically and hyperlinked by
default when you do this.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Mary in Toronto]

Correct me if I'm wrong - they're based on 'styles', which I'm not using.
Simply using bookmarks with hyperlinks to go to locations in a doc is easy,
and has always worked before. Are you suggesting this no longer works?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, this is a good argument for using, if not the built-in heading styles,
then at least specific styles for your headings. And don't think that you
aren't using styles; you are just using a single style (Normal) for
everything.

I have no way of knowing what's going wrong with your document (it should
still work), but user-inserted bookmarks tend to be easily overwritten.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Mary in Toronto]

Thanks a lot for your comments; Ok ... I'll use a 'style' (other than Normal)
;-)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you need help, see http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html
for basics.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org