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Adding break characters to Word
Exactly. The only caveat is that, if the document is to be printed (even to
a PDF that may not retain the links), then you'll want to have the URL in the printed text, since "Click here" won't be very helpful to readers of hard copy! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... 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 |
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