Word as Browser

[JD]

I have heard the Word can be used as an Internet browser. How does this
work, and under what circumstances would one want to use it that way?

 

[Andre Madar]

I have heard the Word can be used as an Internet browser. How does this
work, and under what circumstances would one want to use it that way?

You can enable the "Web" toolbar in Word 2002 under View > Toolbars.
The toolbar has some standard "browsing" buttons on it.

I use this toolbar primarily in documents that have hyperlinks
pointing to bookmarks within the same document. Clicking this type of
Word hyperlink takes me to the bookmarked text, but I haven't found a
memorable way to go BACK to the hyperlink itself apart from turning on
the Web toolbar and clicking the "Back."

By way, Word 2002 hyperlinks that point to an actual web page seem to
load the web page into IE when I CTRL + click them, not into Word
itself. Don't know if that's helpful or not...

Andre Madar

 

[Larry]

I use this toolbar primarily in documents that have hyperlinks

pointing to bookmarks within the same document. Clicking this type of
Word hyperlink takes me to the bookmarked text, but I haven't found a
memorable way to go BACK to the hyperlink itself apart from turning on
the Web toolbar and clicking the "Back."

There are built-in Word commands that handle this: WebGoForward and
WebGoBack. You can assign keystrokes to them. WebGoBack will take you
back to the hyperlink. Also, if you click on a hyperlink in Word that
points to a web page, the Word window will turn into an IE window. If
you then you use the Back command in IE, that will take you back to
Word. But thereafter you can use the WebGoForward command to take you
back to the web page.

Larry