[Jay Freedman]

Ahh, the infamous "we don't need no steenkin' VBA" debacle. I think you'll
have to ask this question in one of the Mac Word newsgroups, because I don't
know what your alternatives are.

BA wrote:
What happens if I happen to be on a Word 2008 Mac?

Just do this on a Windows machine Windows, or is there a way?

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Ah, now you're digging a little deeper than AutoFormat can go. You
need a little macro (see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
if needed):

Sub AllURLsSayLink()
Dim HL As Hyperlink
For Each HL In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
HL.TextToDisplay = "Link"
Next
End Sub

This will change only the displayed text, not the address or the
tooltip (which will show the address).

BA wrote:
Auto Format! Awsome feature...

Now here is a hard question...is there any way to auto format each
link to simply say "Link", but of course retain the underlying and
correct URL address? Again I know that I can go "Edit Hyperlink"
and change the display name to "Link", but doing thousands of time
seems daunting...

Thank you

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

BA wrote:
Thank you very much for reading this.

I have a number of RTF files with bibliographic citations
(exported from RefMan), each citation has a properly formatted
link to a URL, which is on a line by itself preceded by a soft
paragraph return.

When I open the RTF in Word, and enter a paragraph return after a
URL, the link becomes "active"..just as it should!

Here is the question.some of these RTF documents have 100's of
citations, each with a link that must be made active, so that I
can inturn save the pages as HTML for a web site project.
Is there anyway to search and replace (or some other method) to
add a paragraph return that makes these links active?

A basic search and replace/add paragraph does not do the trick!

Having to click on each URL is way too time consuming-over 3,200
bibliographic citations and URLs need to made active.

Here is an example.

Loyer, X., Heymes, C., and Samuel, J. L.(2008) Constitutive nitric
oxide synthases in the heart from hypertrophy to failure.
Clin.Exp.Pharmacol.Physiol: (35) 483-488.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18307746

The conversion of text URLs to working hyperlinks is an AutoFormat
function. There are two separate ways to run AutoFormat. The one
you're used to is "AutoFormat As You Type", which is triggered when
you type the space or punctuation that signals the end of the URL
-- but this doesn't work if you aren't actually hitting keys
(that's why search/replace doesn't do it).

The other is just plain "AutoFormat". In Word 2003 and earlier,
this is triggered by the command Format AutoFormat; in Word 2007
you need to open the Customize dialog and add the AutoFormat Now
command to the Quick Access Toolbar. This runs through the entire
document and handles everything it recognizes.

Before running this command, go to Tools AutoCorrect Options
AutoFormat (in Word 2007, go to Office button Word Options
Proofing AutoCorrect AutoFormat). Note that there are two tabs,
AutoFormat As You Type and just AutoFormat, and you want just
AutoFormat. Uncheck everything except "Internet and network paths
with hyperlinks" to avoid applying all sorts of formatting you
don't want!


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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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