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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clicked
Hello all...
I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clicked
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm.
-- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clicked
If your Hyperlink is located at the bottom of the page then you will need to
create two sections in your document. Protecting the first section and UN-protect the second section. 1. Unprotect your document 2. Place cursor on location above your Hyperlink command Would help to show your hidden control characters by clicking on the (Show/Hide) icon located in the command tray. 3. Click on INSERT\BREAK\CONTINUOUS options from command tray. Note if you have something below your Hyperlink command and wish to protect that information, move your courser below the Hyperlink command but above the protected data. 4. Click on INSERT\BREAK\CONTINUOUS options from command tray. 5. Click on TOOLS\PROTECT DOCUMENT 6. Select under EDITING RESTRICTIONS A. Allow only this type of editing in the document. B. Pick option: Filing in forms. 7. Click Select section link 8. Now you specify which section to un-protect by un-clicking the section 9. Click OK 10. Click "YES, Start enforcing Protection 11. Add password for document protection 12. Remember to enter a Note for your customers to remind them to click on your Hyperlink. -- Charles R. Hopson Sr. "UPSPaul" wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Thanks Jay, for the article, it was helpful. Since I want an email document
to open up instead of a web page, I made the macro so it looks like this: {MacroButton"OpenEmail"{HYPERLINK"mailto:someperso "}} When I press ALT+F9 to hide the field codes, the email still will not open. Should this work the way I have it set up? Thanks again! Paul "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clicked
If my instructions helped how did you attached the doc to email using your
Hyperlink? -- Charles R. Hopson Sr. "UPSPaul" wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clic
When you set this up, did you change the name of the macro from FollowLink
to OpenEmail? The word after MacroButton must match the name of the macro in order to call the macro -- otherwise nothing will happen. I also recommend using the AutoExec macro in that article to set Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1. If you don't the first click of a double-click will bounce the cursor from the MacroButton into the next form field, and the second part of the double-click probably won't register. UPSPaul wrote: Thanks Jay, for the article, it was helpful. Since I want an email document to open up instead of a web page, I made the macro so it looks like this: {MacroButton"OpenEmail"{HYPERLINK"mailto:someperso "}} When I press ALT+F9 to hide the field codes, the email still will not open. Should this work the way I have it set up? Thanks again! Paul "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clic
Yes, I did change the name of the macro to OpenEmail. Apologies....I meant to
include that in my post. "Jay Freedman" wrote: When you set this up, did you change the name of the macro from FollowLink to OpenEmail? The word after MacroButton must match the name of the macro in order to call the macro -- otherwise nothing will happen. I also recommend using the AutoExec macro in that article to set Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1. If you don't the first click of a double-click will bounce the cursor from the MacroButton into the next form field, and the second part of the double-click probably won't register. UPSPaul wrote: Thanks Jay, for the article, it was helpful. Since I want an email document to open up instead of a web page, I made the macro so it looks like this: {MacroButton"OpenEmail"{HYPERLINK"mailto:someperso "}} When I press ALT+F9 to hide the field codes, the email still will not open. Should this work the way I have it set up? Thanks again! Paul "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clic
To diagnose what's happening:
In the VBA editor, click in the line "Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Follow" and press F9 to set a breakpoint. Then go back to the document and click the MacroButton field. If the VBA editor doesn't pop up with the line highlighted, then you know that for some reason the macro isn't being called. That might be because of an incorrectly created field (although I tried the one you showed and it worked), or a misspelling of the name of the macro in one place or the other, or possibly because macros are disabled by the setting in Tools Macro Security. If the editor does appear with the breakpointed line highlighted, press F8 to execute the line. It should open your default email program's message editor. I admit I haven't tried this in the situation where Outlook is the mail program and it uses Word as the email editor -- I never use Word as an email editor because MS never really got it to work right. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Yes, I did change the name of the macro to OpenEmail. Apologies....I meant to include that in my post. "Jay Freedman" wrote: When you set this up, did you change the name of the macro from FollowLink to OpenEmail? The word after MacroButton must match the name of the macro in order to call the macro -- otherwise nothing will happen. I also recommend using the AutoExec macro in that article to set Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1. If you don't the first click of a double-click will bounce the cursor from the MacroButton into the next form field, and the second part of the double-click probably won't register. UPSPaul wrote: Thanks Jay, for the article, it was helpful. Since I want an email document to open up instead of a web page, I made the macro so it looks like this: {MacroButton"OpenEmail"{HYPERLINK"mailto:someperso "}} When I press ALT+F9 to hide the field codes, the email still will not open. Should this work the way I have it set up? Thanks again! Paul "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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I have followed the instructions on this site and now an unable to reprotect
my document. Any ideas? Thanks, Jen "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clic
"Unable" in what way? Is the Protect Document command grayed out/disabled?
Do you get any message? There's nothing in the article that should cause protection to be disabled. Have you added anything else to the document besides the MacroButton field? Jennifer wrote: I have followed the instructions on this site and now an unable to reprotect my document. Any ideas? Thanks, Jen "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clic
I saved, closed out of Word completely, and when I reopened, the "3. Yes,
enable protection." option was no longer grayed out. So the below issues is no longer an issue. Now, I'm on to the next problem. My file seems to work perfectly. However, I have tested it with a couple other employees in my office and the links don't work for them. When they double click, it does nothing. We looked on the macro menu of their computer and it appears the FollowLink macro is not transferring with the file. Any ideas? Thanks, Jen "Jay Freedman" wrote: "Unable" in what way? Is the Protect Document command grayed out/disabled? Do you get any message? There's nothing in the article that should cause protection to be disabled. Have you added anything else to the document besides the MacroButton field? Jennifer wrote: I have followed the instructions on this site and now an unable to reprotect my document. Any ideas? Thanks, Jen "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. UPSPaul wrote: Hello all... I use Word 2003 at my office and I have a form that needs to be protected. At the bottom of the form is hyperlink that when clicked on (using CTRL + left click) will open an email already populated with the proper email addresses and subject line. The link works fine until the document is protected. I have unchecked the box in the protection setting that is supposed to allow hyperlinks to be followed, but when the hyperlink is clicked on, the cursor jumps to the first field of the form instead of opening up the email message. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! Paul |
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Word 2003 - Protected form will not allow hyperlink to be clic
If you saved the macro in the template that's used as the base of the document,
then no, the macro won't transfer with the document. You can do this any of several ways: - Put the macro into the document itself. Then it will travel with the document. The downside is that Word will assume that any macro in a document is possibly a virus. You'd have to tell users to set their security level (Tools Macro Security) to Medium, and enable the macros whenever they open the document. - Send out the template instead of a document based on it. Have the users open it the same way they would open and use the document. - Send both the template and the document, with instructions to put the template into the User Templates folder (whose location can be found in the Tools Options File Locations dialog). On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:54:00 -0800, Jennifer wrote: I saved, closed out of Word completely, and when I reopened, the "3. Yes, enable protection." option was no longer grayed out. So the below issues is no longer an issue. Now, I'm on to the next problem. My file seems to work perfectly. However, I have tested it with a couple other employees in my office and the links don't work for them. When they double click, it does nothing. We looked on the macro menu of their computer and it appears the FollowLink macro is not transferring with the file. Any ideas? Thanks, Jen "Jay Freedman" wrote: "Unable" in what way? Is the Protect Document command grayed out/disabled? Do you get any message? There's nothing in the article that should cause protection to be disabled. Have you added anything else to the document besides the MacroButton field? Jennifer wrote: I have followed the instructions on this site and now an unable to reprotect my document. Any ideas? Thanks, Jen "Jay Freedman" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nksInForms.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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