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Word 2002 - Weird behavior of hyperlink character style
I use the hyperlink character style to format cross-reference links so my
hyperlinks and my cross references all look the same when I PDF my word documents. However... the IT guy came and upgraded me from Word 97 to Word 2002 and all of a sudden the hyperlink character style isn't displaying correctly. I have it set up to be default paragraph font + Arial + underline + font color dark blue. However, it displays as Arial + font color black. No underline, no dark blue. The weird part of it is if I select the text and choose the FormatFont menu item, it tells me that the selected text IS dark blue and underlined. WTF?? Anybody seen this behavior? I've tried stripping out all the formatting by selecting the whole paragraph and applying "Default paragraph font" then selecting the cross reference and applying the Hyperlink style but it always displays incorrectly. arggh Thanks Mike |
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Word 2002 - Weird behavior of hyperlink character style
Hi Mike
Mike Starr wrote: I use the hyperlink character style to format cross-reference links so my hyperlinks and my cross references all look the same when I PDF my word documents. However... the IT guy came and upgraded me from Word 97 to Word 2002 and all of a sudden the hyperlink character style isn't displaying correctly. I have it set up to be default paragraph font + Arial + underline + font color dark blue. However, it displays as Arial + font color black. No underline, no dark blue. The weird part of it is if I select the text and choose the FormatFont menu item, it tells me that the selected text IS dark blue and underlined. WTF?? Anybody seen this behavior? I've tried stripping out all the formatting by selecting the whole paragraph and applying "Default paragraph font" then selecting the cross reference and applying the Hyperlink style but it always displays incorrectly. arggh Tapping in the dark here, but: what happens if you format any word in another style with the dark blue color without the hyperlink style -- does it look better? [If not, in which View are you? Check your printer settings for something like all colors to black, maybe?] HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Word 2002 - Weird behavior of hyperlink character style
Hi Robert
"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Hi Mike Mike Starr wrote: I use the hyperlink character style to format cross-reference links so my hyperlinks and my cross references all look the same when I PDF my word documents. However... the IT guy came and upgraded me from Word 97 to Word 2002 and all of a sudden the hyperlink character style isn't displaying correctly. I have it set up to be default paragraph font + Arial + underline + font color dark blue. However, it displays as Arial + font color black. No underline, no dark blue. The weird part of it is if I select the text and choose the FormatFont menu item, it tells me that the selected text IS dark blue and underlined. WTF?? Anybody seen this behavior? I've tried stripping out all the formatting by selecting the whole paragraph and applying "Default paragraph font" then selecting the cross reference and applying the Hyperlink style but it always displays incorrectly. arggh Tapping in the dark here, but: what happens if you format any word in another style with the dark blue color without the hyperlink style -- does it look better? [If not, in which View are you? Check your printer settings for something like all colors to black, maybe?] HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word I make extensive use of the dark blue color in my document... I've set my heading styles to that color and they all display just fine. If I apply that font color to a word locally, it displays just fine as well. I just did an experiment and entered a url and Word automatically applied the Hyperlink character style (as expected) and it displays correctly. I also tried just selecting a random word and applying the Hyperlink character style. That works just fine as well... it displays exactly as it should. It seems like there's something about a cross reference that's preventing the hyperlink character style from displaying correctly. It appears to be some sort of bug. I've created another character style with the exact same formatting and I can apply it to the cross references with no difficulty but I would prefer to use only a single character style for these things. Ah, well... Word happens, eh? |
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Word 2002 - Weird behavior of hyperlink character style
Hi Mike
Mike Starr wrote: [..] I make extensive use of the dark blue color in my document... I've set my heading styles to that color and they all display just fine. If I apply that font color to a word locally, it displays just fine as well. I just did an experiment and entered a url and Word automatically applied the Hyperlink character style (as expected) and it displays correctly. I also tried just selecting a random word and applying the Hyperlink character style. That works just fine as well... it displays exactly as it should. It seems like there's something about a cross reference that's preventing the hyperlink character style from displaying correctly. It appears to be some sort of bug. I've created another character style with the exact same formatting and I can apply it to the cross references with no difficulty but I would prefer to use only a single character style for these things. OK, this rules out any printer driver troubles, I'd wager. I don't have any Word 2002 installation handy to test this, but I doubt this is a standard behaviour there. If you like, could you make a (very) small sample document which shows this, zip it up and send it to my email address? Ah, well... Word happens, eh? Yes it does, frequently! :-) Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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