In fact, if you use the Insert | Hyperlink (Ctrl+K) dialog, you can paste
the hyperlink into the ADDRESS box at the bottom of the dialog and then type
Click Here in the TEXT TO DISPLAY box at the top of the dialog. You can also
edit the screen tip (the popup when you hover the pointer over Click Here)
and assign what you want it to display. By default, the popup will display
the long URL; but as these are often nonsense, you can change it to say 'BBC
News' or whatever is appropriate).
--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
"Pam Midboe" wrote in message
...
How do I distinguish the "text to display" vs. URL? I guess the difference
is
that you cannot use the no width optional break in a "live" URL but you
can
use it in a text URL display that may not be "live," but could be copied
into
your Browser. When copying a URL with no width optional break characters
into
the Browser, the Browser ignores the NWOB chars., and the copied URL llink
works.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Make sure that you edit only the "text to display" and not the underlying
URL itself.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Pam Midboe" Pam wrote in message
news
Hello Klaus -- I have a document with a large number of lengthy URLs
that
need to work, but they often span 2 lines so I need to add a space and
then
the URL doesn't work anymore. How do I get a long URL to wrap without
affecting its "clickability"? I'm using Word 2003. Thanks in advance
for
your
assistance/advice.
- Pam
"Klaus Linke" wrote:
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Well, Word is quite happy to break a line at the "No Width Optional
Break," so it works for me (though I rarely use it).
For the time being, it does... Until MS fixes the mess.
U+200C isn't supposed to mark a word break, so it shouldn't affect how
Word
breaks the line.
And I have always wondered whether the break would make the URL
nonclickable (if it were clickable); what you quoted suggested to me
that
it would not (in the same mysterious way that wrapped URLs in these
NG
posts can still be clickable). Obviously, I haven't wondered enough
to
bother to test it. g
Once a hyperlink is inserted (say by using the AutoCorrect Option
AutoFormat as you type), the display text and the actual hyperlink are
separate, so if you then insert the Unicode character (whichever you
choose), the link will continue to work.
If I'd need to, I'd stick with U+200B (... type 200B, then Alt+X).
Klaus