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Argh!! Hyperlinks in same doc keep changing for some reason.
I've lost my mind with this. Please help!
I have a Table of Contents (the first page of a 17 page document) where all the titles are hyperlinks to the relative page in the document. I set up each section title as a heading so that I am able to choose each heading after highlighting the title in the Table of Contents, then clicking the insert hyperlink icon and then ''Place in this Document' and the correct Heading per the title. Initially it seemed to work great. Then the more I used them in testing they just began to not work. If I messed with it long enough for some reason they would magically begin to work again but as I continue work on the document they quit working again. I added links within the document to take the user back up to the Table of Contents and those work fine. All I can tell is....I will edit the hyperlink making sure it is linked to the right heading and then if I go immediately back to make sure the edit took it has changed from Link to: 'Place in this Document' to 'Existing File or Web Page'. This way it seems like it's using the whole file name which will not work once the document is moved....that is if it worked at all. At one point I noticed that the ruler bar on top would adjust so that it is smaller than the wording of the hyperlink but it does this automatically and I can't change it. At one point I clicked on 'View' and set it so the Ruler Bar is not visible and mysteriously all my links worked and continued to work for quite awhile but again gradually quit working. I have also tried adding Bookmarks but I guess since I already have the title formats as Headings it considers those the same as a bookmark and won't let me add them again. Now I am having zero luck. No matter how much I mess with it they just don't work even though they all appear to be set up correctly. Oh! And! The top title hyperlink for some reason always works. Any help is greatly appreciated! Kristine |
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Argh!! Hyperlinks in same doc keep changing for some reason.
If you are using Word 2000 or above, you're wasting your time, as all TOC
entries are already hyperlinked by default. In earlier versions, the page numbers are hyperlinked. You don't need to hyperlink them manually. The way you're doing it, every time you update the TOC, you're removing the hyperlinks you inserted. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "smilee8_28" wrote in message ... I've lost my mind with this. Please help! I have a Table of Contents (the first page of a 17 page document) where all the titles are hyperlinks to the relative page in the document. I set up each section title as a heading so that I am able to choose each heading after highlighting the title in the Table of Contents, then clicking the insert hyperlink icon and then ''Place in this Document' and the correct Heading per the title. Initially it seemed to work great. Then the more I used them in testing they just began to not work. If I messed with it long enough for some reason they would magically begin to work again but as I continue work on the document they quit working again. I added links within the document to take the user back up to the Table of Contents and those work fine. All I can tell is....I will edit the hyperlink making sure it is linked to the right heading and then if I go immediately back to make sure the edit took it has changed from Link to: 'Place in this Document' to 'Existing File or Web Page'. This way it seems like it's using the whole file name which will not work once the document is moved....that is if it worked at all. At one point I noticed that the ruler bar on top would adjust so that it is smaller than the wording of the hyperlink but it does this automatically and I can't change it. At one point I clicked on 'View' and set it so the Ruler Bar is not visible and mysteriously all my links worked and continued to work for quite awhile but again gradually quit working. I have also tried adding Bookmarks but I guess since I already have the title formats as Headings it considers those the same as a bookmark and won't let me add them again. Now I am having zero luck. No matter how much I mess with it they just don't work even though they all appear to be set up correctly. Oh! And! The top title hyperlink for some reason always works. Any help is greatly appreciated! Kristine |
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Argh!! Hyperlinks in same doc keep changing for some reason.
I actually didn't know about and hadn't used the tool for creating a TOC. I
created my own. I have just now tried using the tool. All of my titles use the Heading 3 format so under Table of Contents options I set it so Heading 3 is TOC level 1 and nothing else is marked. When I click OK for the table to be created it doesn't find any TOC entries. Could that be because all of my headings are inside tables themselves? Also, knowing I did not use that tool, any ideas what the problem could be as stated in my original question? Kristine "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are using Word 2000 or above, you're wasting your time, as all TOC entries are already hyperlinked by default. In earlier versions, the page numbers are hyperlinked. You don't need to hyperlink them manually. The way you're doing it, every time you update the TOC, you're removing the hyperlinks you inserted. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "smilee8_28" wrote in message ... I've lost my mind with this. Please help! I have a Table of Contents (the first page of a 17 page document) where all the titles are hyperlinks to the relative page in the document. I set up each section title as a heading so that I am able to choose each heading after highlighting the title in the Table of Contents, then clicking the insert hyperlink icon and then ''Place in this Document' and the correct Heading per the title. Initially it seemed to work great. Then the more I used them in testing they just began to not work. If I messed with it long enough for some reason they would magically begin to work again but as I continue work on the document they quit working again. I added links within the document to take the user back up to the Table of Contents and those work fine. All I can tell is....I will edit the hyperlink making sure it is linked to the right heading and then if I go immediately back to make sure the edit took it has changed from Link to: 'Place in this Document' to 'Existing File or Web Page'. This way it seems like it's using the whole file name which will not work once the document is moved....that is if it worked at all. At one point I noticed that the ruler bar on top would adjust so that it is smaller than the wording of the hyperlink but it does this automatically and I can't change it. At one point I clicked on 'View' and set it so the Ruler Bar is not visible and mysteriously all my links worked and continued to work for quite awhile but again gradually quit working. I have also tried adding Bookmarks but I guess since I already have the title formats as Headings it considers those the same as a bookmark and won't let me add them again. Now I am having zero luck. No matter how much I mess with it they just don't work even though they all appear to be set up correctly. Oh! And! The top title hyperlink for some reason always works. Any help is greatly appreciated! Kristine |
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Argh!! Hyperlinks in same doc keep changing for some reason.
Word should find Heading 3 anywhere except in a text box. Are your tables in
text boxes? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "smilee8_28" wrote in message ... I actually didn't know about and hadn't used the tool for creating a TOC. I created my own. I have just now tried using the tool. All of my titles use the Heading 3 format so under Table of Contents options I set it so Heading 3 is TOC level 1 and nothing else is marked. When I click OK for the table to be created it doesn't find any TOC entries. Could that be because all of my headings are inside tables themselves? Also, knowing I did not use that tool, any ideas what the problem could be as stated in my original question? Kristine "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are using Word 2000 or above, you're wasting your time, as all TOC entries are already hyperlinked by default. In earlier versions, the page numbers are hyperlinked. You don't need to hyperlink them manually. The way you're doing it, every time you update the TOC, you're removing the hyperlinks you inserted. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "smilee8_28" wrote in message ... I've lost my mind with this. Please help! I have a Table of Contents (the first page of a 17 page document) where all the titles are hyperlinks to the relative page in the document. I set up each section title as a heading so that I am able to choose each heading after highlighting the title in the Table of Contents, then clicking the insert hyperlink icon and then ''Place in this Document' and the correct Heading per the title. Initially it seemed to work great. Then the more I used them in testing they just began to not work. If I messed with it long enough for some reason they would magically begin to work again but as I continue work on the document they quit working again. I added links within the document to take the user back up to the Table of Contents and those work fine. All I can tell is....I will edit the hyperlink making sure it is linked to the right heading and then if I go immediately back to make sure the edit took it has changed from Link to: 'Place in this Document' to 'Existing File or Web Page'. This way it seems like it's using the whole file name which will not work once the document is moved....that is if it worked at all. At one point I noticed that the ruler bar on top would adjust so that it is smaller than the wording of the hyperlink but it does this automatically and I can't change it. At one point I clicked on 'View' and set it so the Ruler Bar is not visible and mysteriously all my links worked and continued to work for quite awhile but again gradually quit working. I have also tried adding Bookmarks but I guess since I already have the title formats as Headings it considers those the same as a bookmark and won't let me add them again. Now I am having zero luck. No matter how much I mess with it they just don't work even though they all appear to be set up correctly. Oh! And! The top title hyperlink for some reason always works. Any help is greatly appreciated! Kristine |
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