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Launching word from a hyperlink
Word 2003, Windows 2003 (term server).
An excel workbook called FormIndex.xls lists all the corporate forms and each entry hyperlinks to a Word template (.dot) file in a folder structure which groups similar forms together. When a template is launched by double-clicking it in its home folder, everything works fine and the new document name created defaults to *.doc - as expected. However, when a template is launched using the hyperlink, the file type defaults to .dot and users routinely forget to change this to .doc - as expected. Can anyone say why this is so and, is there a way to have the save behaviour behave in the usual manner? -- Len __________________________________________________ ____ remove nothing for valid email address. |
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Launching word from a hyperlink
Hello Len
Len B wrote: Word 2003, Windows 2003 (term server). An excel workbook called FormIndex.xls lists all the corporate forms and each entry hyperlinks to a Word template (.dot) file in a folder structure which groups similar forms together. When a template is launched by double-clicking it in its home folder, everything works fine and the new document name created defaults to *.doc - as expected. However, when a template is launched using the hyperlink, the file type defaults to .dot and users routinely forget to change this to .doc - as expected. same behavior as in a browser (say: IE): a hyperlink should really take you to the target. That means your users are in fact opening the template itself (instead of the familiar creation of a new document _based_ on the template, as in what a double-click does). Can anyone say why this is so and, is there a way to have the save behaviour behave in the usual manner? The usual workaround is to (in the given folder) create a shortcut to the template, and then let the hyperlink point to the LNK file instead of to the template itself. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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