I desire to insert a hyperlink in the page footer that references the TOC.

It is easy enough, but Word requires that you double click the footer
(activate edit mode) to activate the hyperlink.

I saw a similar post from 10/28 with a resolution for word 2002 and above.

I have 2000, and I didn't really understand the solution.

How do you add a TOC button to the Hyperlink Toolbar? I fished around some
with this and had no success.

I built a workaround by putting a TOC Heading reference at the top of the
TOC page so that the TOC references itself (not optimal. but finctional).

That makes the TOC come up in the list of places that hyperlink will go, and
indeed the hyperlink goes there nicely.

Now, how do I activate the hyperlink without the double click to enter
footer edit mode ?

Any help will be appreciated.