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Bookmarks appearing in HTML Format document links
Greetings,
I am using Word 2003 now (2000 up to now) and I am finding that when I: select text in a source document that contains bookmarks; swap to my target document; select 'Edit' | 'Paste Special' and 'HTML Format' & 'Paste Link' - I end up with the nice html formatted hyperlink as I did in 2000, but now, the bookmarks from the source document show up [] in the link *and* they have been copied to the target document as real bookmark entries (i.e. show up in the Bookmark list ('Insert' | 'Bookmarks')). This never used to happen. Please tell me there is a way to stop the bookmarks being copied over when the links are being created. Also happens if I update an existing link by the way. These are Word 2000 format documents I'm having problems with but it also seems to happen with new documents created with 2003. PS Turning 'View Bookmarks' on / off in the source / target documents didn't help. Removes the problem from view but doesn't affect the copy and paste link behaviour. PPS I assume Word 2000 might have done this too - but they were always 'hidden bookmarks' so I never saw it? Thanks all. |
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Hi ?B?QW5keUJlYXI=?=,
I am using Word 2003 now (2000 up to now) and I am finding that when I: select text in a source document that contains bookmarks; swap to my target document; select 'Edit' | 'Paste Special' and 'HTML Format' & 'Paste Link' - I end up with the nice html formatted hyperlink as I did in 2000, but now, the bookmarks from the source document show up [] in the link *and* they have been copied to the target document as real bookmark entries (i.e. show up in the Bookmark list ('Insert' | 'Bookmarks')). This never used to happen Indeed, all versions of Word, back through 6.0, have done this. The only time you might not have picked up the bookmarks is if they already existed in the target file. but they were always 'hidden bookmarks' so I never saw it? Possibly. That would depend on how they're named; bookmarks with names beginning with an underscore won't be visible unless the "Hidden bookmarks" checkbox is activated (deactivated and reactivated). I do believe Word 2003 tends to display more bookmarks than Word 2000 did, but I've never really thought about the details, because I like seeing bookmarks. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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The one thing that pre-2003 versions of Word did not do was 'copy' the
bookmarks from the source file into the target file when the link between the source and target files was formed. But I guess the comment about 2003 showing more bookmarks than before addresses this too. It just seems a little silly/wrong as: a) When you look in the list of bookmarks for a file you can't tell anymore which bookmarks are the 'master' ones - i.e. which ones really do originate from the current source file - rather than some source document you have linked to where those links contain bookmarks. Therefore it makes documents sharing information with each other via links much harder to manage. b) If a bookmark with the same name as the one being linked too already exists in the file then the bookmark isn't copied over; it should at least pick a bookmark name at 'random' for the new bookmark in the target file, for consistency reasons, if nothing else. Otherwise, why the change from 2000? c) Even when the source text doesn't contain a bookmark, the process of creating the link adds one to the source document (which is OK obviously) and this too is copied as a bookmark entry into the target document (which isn't, IMHO). Thanks anyway though, guess I'll just have to live with it. Or delete the bookmarks as they get copied over... -- "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?QW5keUJlYXI=?=, I am using Word 2003 now (2000 up to now) and I am finding that when I: select text in a source document that contains bookmarks; swap to my target document; select 'Edit' | 'Paste Special' and 'HTML Format' & 'Paste Link' - I end up with the nice html formatted hyperlink as I did in 2000, but now, the bookmarks from the source document show up [] in the link *and* they have been copied to the target document as real bookmark entries (i.e. show up in the Bookmark list ('Insert' | 'Bookmarks')). This never used to happen Indeed, all versions of Word, back through 6.0, have done this. The only time you might not have picked up the bookmarks is if they already existed in the target file. but they were always 'hidden bookmarks' so I never saw it? Possibly. That would depend on how they're named; bookmarks with names beginning with an underscore won't be visible unless the "Hidden bookmarks" checkbox is activated (deactivated and reactivated). I do believe Word 2003 tends to display more bookmarks than Word 2000 did, but I've never really thought about the details, because I like seeing bookmarks. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?QW5keUJlYXI=?=,
c) Even when the source text doesn't contain a bookmark, the process of creating the link adds one to the source document (which is OK obviously) and this too is copied as a bookmark entry into the target document (which isn't, IMHO). OK, now I see what you're talking about. It's the OLE_Link bookmarks, right? Yes, displaying these in the target document is new behavior, and I suspect the reason for it is so that you KNOW there's a link to an outside file. Part of the new Security measures MS implemented in Word 2003... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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