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Imbedding shortcuts
I expected to be able to copy a shortcut from my desktop to my
clipboard, open a Word document and paste the shortcut into it. It seemed such a logical thing to do that I have gone ahead and written a quite lengthy document with many of these imbedded shortcuts. The document, by the way, describes the procedures I go through when making software changes, with the intention that others would then be able to follow my instructions, using the imbedded shortcuts to automatically navigate to, or execute, various files/processes on the shared network. Unfortunately it seems I have wasted my time. The shortcuts are inactive/defective - completely useless. If I mouse-over them I sometimes see an instruction to "Ctrl + click to follow link" - which proves to be just another of those frustrating teases - and I simply get an error dialogue to say the link cannot be followed. Thinking this odd - because the shortcut worked fine from my desktop or wherever else I had copied it to - I tried to copy it back from the Word document to my desktop to see if it still ran OK from there. Then I got some message about having to save a copy of the picture. Odd that - because there is no picture involved. Not really enjoying this I have to say. Please brighten up my day and help me to see where I'm going wrong and what I should be doing instead. TIA, Mike. |
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Imbedding shortcuts
Mike: To see the actual link that was created, hit Alt+F9. That's about all
I can do to help. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com wrote in message oups.com... I expected to be able to copy a shortcut from my desktop to my clipboard, open a Word document and paste the shortcut into it. It seemed such a logical thing to do that I have gone ahead and written a quite lengthy document with many of these imbedded shortcuts. The document, by the way, describes the procedures I go through when making software changes, with the intention that others would then be able to follow my instructions, using the imbedded shortcuts to automatically navigate to, or execute, various files/processes on the shared network. Unfortunately it seems I have wasted my time. The shortcuts are inactive/defective - completely useless. If I mouse-over them I sometimes see an instruction to "Ctrl + click to follow link" - which proves to be just another of those frustrating teases - and I simply get an error dialogue to say the link cannot be followed. Thinking this odd - because the shortcut worked fine from my desktop or wherever else I had copied it to - I tried to copy it back from the Word document to my desktop to see if it still ran OK from there. Then I got some message about having to save a copy of the picture. Odd that - because there is no picture involved. Not really enjoying this I have to say. Please brighten up my day and help me to see where I'm going wrong and what I should be doing instead. TIA, Mike. |
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