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Hyperlink mechanism gone awry on MS Word - Advice sought
I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.
Starting yesterday: I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z \u} Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http:// code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" } (My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in its entirety.) Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/ cleaned 6 problematic things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-( The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these two days) on this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...347b8fee3c5c9d Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Richard |
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Hyperlink mechanism gone awry on MS Word - Advice sought
On Jan 7, 1:00*pm, RichardOnRails
wrote: I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3. Starting yesterday: I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to it. *Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index and Tables | Table of Contents. *Instead of getting a TOC as I did earlier today, *I now got *an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z \u} Additional symptom: *Inside the same Word document, *I typed "http:// code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. *I expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" } (My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in its entirety.) Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/ cleaned 6 problematic things. *However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-( The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these two days) on this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/micro...setup/browse_t... Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Richard When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my browser (Firefox 3.6.13), the third paragraph in my original post, following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string: http://code.google. com/p/msysgit/ (written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes, which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document. I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the symptom I'm trying counter. Best wishes, Richard |
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Hyperlink mechanism gone awry on MS Word - Advice sought
You've just toggled on the display of field codes instead of field results.
Press Alt+F9 to toggle back. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "RichardOnRails" wrote in message ... On Jan 7, 1:00 pm, RichardOnRails wrote: I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3. Starting yesterday: I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z \u} Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http:// code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" } (My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in its entirety.) Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/ cleaned 6 problematic things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-( The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these two days) on this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/micro...setup/browse_t... Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Richard When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my browser (Firefox 3.6.13), the third paragraph in my original post, following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string: http://code.google. com/p/msysgit/ (written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes, which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document. I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the symptom I'm trying counter. Best wishes, Richard |
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Hyperlink mechanism gone awry on MS Word - Advice sought
On Jan 7, 2:44*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You've just toggled on the display of field codes instead of field results. Press Alt+F9 to toggle back. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "RichardOnRails" wrote in ... On Jan 7, 1:00 pm, RichardOnRails wrote: I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3. Starting yesterday: I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z \u} Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http:// code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" } (My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in its entirety.) Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/ cleaned 6 problematic things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-( The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these two days) on this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/micro...setup/browse_t... Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Richard When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my browser (Firefox 3.6.13), *the third paragraph in my original post, following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string: * *http://code.google. * * com/p/msysgit/ (written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes, which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document. I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the symptom I'm trying counter. Best wishes, Richard Hi Suzanne, Thank you very much for unraveling this mystery. I tried it and got my beloved links back, which is great. Furthermore, I was very confident the you were right because I was clumsily defining Ctrl- and Ctrl-Shift- for the F9 key prior to this mishap. No doubt I accidentally changed Word's normal response to Alt- F9.in the process. You're an Angel. Best wishes, Richard |
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