[Dave Allen]

I have a MS Word 2003 document with many html links to various internet sites. Some of the links do work, others do not. This same situation occurs on multiple PCs with same document. No internet connection related problems known. Websites vary - all websites are fine. Does not appear to be related to URL whatever ... HTTP / HTTPS. Working links have both. Non working links have both.


For the links that do not work, I can edit the link, copy the destination, paste that into Internet Explorer, and it works just fine.


The destination websites do not appear to be the problem.

When clicking on the link, the error dialog says "Unable to open http:// .... The Internet site reports that the item you requested could not be found. (HTTP/1.0 404).

What might be the problem ?


Someone said "spurious characters in link" ??? I copy link and paste into browser - it works.

[Dave Allen]

A simple example of a link that works directly in any browser, but does not work within MS Word:

https://www.facebook.com/tracy.astle

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

That particular link results in an error even when I paste it into the
address bar in Internet Explorer.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




"Dave Allen" wrote in message
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A simple example of a link that works directly in any browser, but does
not work within MS Word:

https://www.facebook.com/tracy.astle




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Dave Allen

[Dave Allen]

So, Still no answer for why, when I am fully logged in to Facebook, I can get to some Facebook pages via hyperlinks in a MS Word document, but not others.

In all cases, I can go to Word, right click on the link, select edit hyperlink, copy the full URL, paste it into 3 different browsers, and go right to the page.

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

Well, as I wrote, the link https://www.facebook.com/tracy.astle does not
work for me, even in a browser. I get an error message, presumably because I
don't have a Facebook account. Maybe Word can't handle links that require a
log-in prompt.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




"Dave Allen" wrote in message
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So, Still no answer for why, when I am fully logged in to Facebook, I
can get to some Facebook pages via hyperlinks in a MS Word document, but
not others.

In all cases, I can go to Word, right click on the link, select edit
hyperlink, copy the full URL, paste it into 3 different browsers, and go
right to the page.




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Dave Allen