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This is what is showing up in my Word document:
"OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I cant figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesnt do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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If alt-F9 doesn't do anything, try Tools | Options | View, make sure "field
codes" is NOT checked. Are you getting squares or { } characters? On 9/19/06 7:13 PM, "Carol B" wrote: This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I canąt figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesnąt do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi ?B?Q2Fyb2wgQg==?=,
This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I cant figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesnt do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? All in the same document? Or also in new documents? Which version of Word? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption.
If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked.
As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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Hi Carol,
If you start a new blank document and use Ctrl+K and select the 'Email address' box on the left of that dialog and set separate entries for the Display text, screen tip and the email address, and then [ok] do you get the same problem in that document when you use Alt+F9? What is the font you're using and what is the proofing language set for the text that contains the field? ============== "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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I tried it in a new document as you suggested and the hyperlink display works
as it should, and alt-F9 works fine. I'm using Arial 12 pt. reg (no bold etc) and tools/language/set language is English (US). In fact, I also can add a hyperlink in the problem document and it works fine. The problem seems to affect all fields in the problem document that existed at one point, but not new fields. Thanks for your help. I can e-mail the doucment if you want. "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Carol, If you start a new blank document and use Ctrl+K and select the 'Email address' box on the left of that dialog and set separate entries for the Display text, screen tip and the email address, and then [ok] do you get the same problem in that document when you use Alt+F9? What is the font you're using and what is the proofing language set for the text that contains the field? ============== "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are not brace
characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code and all the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way it is hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I would be happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-) -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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How do I get the file to you?
"Tony Jollans" wrote: The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are not brace characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code and all the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way it is hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I would be happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-) -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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My (disguised) e-mail address should show with my posts but, if not, it is
my forename at my surname dot com. -- Enjoy, Tony Jollans "Carol B" wrote in message ... How do I get the file to you? "Tony Jollans" wrote: The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are not brace characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code and all the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way it is hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I would be happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-) -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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I have received the document. Thank you Carol.
It is clearly corrupt. The fields (TOC, Hyperlinks) do exist and are accessible via VBA. Pressing F11 to skip through the fields does something but I haven't quite worked out what. There also appears to be something amiss with the Comments. I am too tired to study it further at the moment but will try and report back tomorrow. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... How do I get the file to you? "Tony Jollans" wrote: The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are not brace characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code and all the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way it is hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I would be happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-) -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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Hi ?B?Q2Fyb2wgQg==?=,
In fact, I also can add a hyperlink in the problem document and it works fine. The problem seems to affect all fields in the problem document that existed at one point, but not new fields. Was this document ever saved in a "foreign" file format, perhaps? Or opened and saved by another program that supposedly can save as a Word document? That would explain what you're seeing (existing field codes got "zapped", but new ones work because the document has been saved again as a "real" Word document). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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Many thanks for continuing to look at this. FYI: I can recover the document's
content without too much trouble (the easiest way would be to go back to an earlier version of the document)--but I'd like to know what happened and how to prevent it in the future. This will be part of a much longer document and I don't want the same thing to happen again--the longer one would be more difficult to recover. "Tony Jollans" wrote: I have received the document. Thank you Carol. It is clearly corrupt. The fields (TOC, Hyperlinks) do exist and are accessible via VBA. Pressing F11 to skip through the fields does something but I haven't quite worked out what. There also appears to be something amiss with the Comments. I am too tired to study it further at the moment but will try and report back tomorrow. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... How do I get the file to you? "Tony Jollans" wrote: The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are not brace characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code and all the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way it is hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I would be happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-) -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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I'm sorry for not coming back sooner. I've been looking at this on and off
and beyond the fact that there are internal inconsistencies in the document leading to the oddities you see I cannot pin down any particular corruption - it just seems to have some information missing whilst otherwise being in order. The corruption is not random and it appears as though the file has been wrongly built. It is unlikely (though not impossible) that Word itself did this and Cindy's suggestion that it may have been saved by another program supposedly in Word format would explain it and I can't come up with anything better. If true, whoever did it ought to be aware of having done something unusual even if not aware of the consequences but, unfortunately, I don't think there's anything you can do to fix it -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Many thanks for continuing to look at this. FYI: I can recover the document's content without too much trouble (the easiest way would be to go back to an earlier version of the document)--but I'd like to know what happened and how to prevent it in the future. This will be part of a much longer document and I don't want the same thing to happen again--the longer one would be more difficult to recover. "Tony Jollans" wrote: I have received the document. Thank you Carol. It is clearly corrupt. The fields (TOC, Hyperlinks) do exist and are accessible via VBA. Pressing F11 to skip through the fields does something but I haven't quite worked out what. There also appears to be something amiss with the Comments. I am too tired to study it further at the moment but will try and report back tomorrow. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... How do I get the file to you? "Tony Jollans" wrote: The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are not brace characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code and all the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way it is hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I would be happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-) -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" wrote in message ... Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is not checked. As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares, not brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing brackets. Any other suggestions? "Tony Jollans" wrote: That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some corruption. If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair. -- Enjoy, Tony "Carol B" Carol wrote in message ... This is what is showing up in my Word document: "OHYPERLINK " O" (only instead of O I am really getting squares) If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as and the link shows as . What I want to show up is (with blue underline), hyperlinked to . I can't figure out why I am getting the extra text. Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other field codes. What is going on? |
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