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How do I stop automatic character changing?
I have some text in MS Word 2003 and I'm placing a hyperlink to that text.
In the hyperlink, I have this: {--YourID--} But when I go to re-edit this hyperlink, it has changed teh curly brackets into %7b--YourID--%7b How do I stop it from changing the curly bracket characters into some other code? JH |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
For hyperlinks to work, some characters have to be converted into their
hexadecimal equivalents. For example, spaces get converted into %20. When you Ctrl+Click on the link, that part will be interpreted as {--YourID--}. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Jetheat" wrote in message ... I have some text in MS Word 2003 and I'm placing a hyperlink to that text. In the hyperlink, I have this: {--YourID--} But when I go to re-edit this hyperlink, it has changed teh curly brackets into %7b--YourID--%7b How do I stop it from changing the curly bracket characters into some other code? JH |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
Thanks for teh reply but is there any way around this limitation?
I need it to have curly brackets as I need to convert the document to pdf and allow that tag to be modified. I need to find a way around this. JH |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
There might be a work-around. Can you tell me exactly what the hyperlink
looks like? I assume it contains more than simply {--YourID--}; otherwise, it isn't really a hyperlink. I assume this field begins with { hyperlink and contains {--YourID--} in it, and possibly something else. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Jetheat" wrote in message ... Thanks for teh reply but is there any way around this limitation? I need it to have curly brackets as I need to convert the document to pdf and allow that tag to be modified. I need to find a way around this. JH |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
Yep, the entire url will be
http://webkept.com/cgi-bin/uam/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid={--YourID--} Let me know what you come up with. JH |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
I think I'm back to not understanding what the problem is.
You want that URL to be reproduced exactly that way when the file is converted to a PDF file? Us that correct? Even though those characters are displayed in hex in Word's hyperlink dialog box, I find that when I print the file to a PDF, they correctly display as { and } in the PDF, both in the text as well as in the displayed link when I hover over the hyperlink. (They also display correctly in Word when I hover the mouse over the link.) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Jetheat" wrote in message ... Yep, the entire url will be http://webkept.com/cgi-bin/uam/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid={--YourID--} Let me know what you come up with. JH |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
On the contrary.
In Word, when I hover over it, it does show { and } but when I convert it to PDF, it shows as %7b. I have a plugin for converting to PDF from word through Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. When I do it this way, it shows %7b but when I convert it using Print to PDF, it doesn't even include the link at all. It just shows the hyperlink to the web page because my anchor text is also a URL. Is there a setting I'm missing? |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
I'm also using Acrobat 7 Professional. I always use Print to PDF (seems to
work faster and with less overhead). It might indeed be an Adobe issue, since you're getting one result, and I'm getting another. Unfortunatley, Adobe has more settings that you can shake a stick at, and some of them do more than their description advertises. You might peruse its help file for "hyperlinks" or "urls" to see what you come up with regarding settings. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Jetheat" wrote in message ... On the contrary. In Word, when I hover over it, it does show { and } but when I convert it to PDF, it shows as %7b. I have a plugin for converting to PDF from word through Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. When I do it this way, it shows %7b but when I convert it using Print to PDF, it doesn't even include the link at all. It just shows the hyperlink to the web page because my anchor text is also a URL. Is there a setting I'm missing? |
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How do I stop automatic character changing?
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I've tried trawling for help but there's too much info and I can't find what I need. Thanks |
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