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Overriding CTRL in hyperlinks
I want to send a business newsletter out with hyperlinks in it. I want to get
rid of people having to press CTRL and then the link. How do I do this. I know you can do it on individual computers but how do I override it so even if their computer has CTRL on it will let them just click the hyperlink without hte CTRL. |
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Overriding CTRL in hyperlinks
The Ctrl+Click hyperlink is a user profile setting.
Uncheck Tools, Options, Edit, Use CTRL+Click to follow hyperlink. This is your setting on your machine, the receivers may or may not have this setting, I don't believe that you can force this setting in the document to change receivers machine, except possibly with a macro, but that then opens another can of worms concerning the receivers security settings! Rely on the hope that if the receiver has the Ctrl+Click setting they are used to it. Hope this helps DeanH "Ashley101" wrote: I want to send a business newsletter out with hyperlinks in it. I want to get rid of people having to press CTRL and then the link. How do I do this. I know you can do it on individual computers but how do I override it so even if their computer has CTRL on it will let them just click the hyperlink without hte CTRL. |
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Overriding CTRL in hyperlinks
Ashley101 wrote:
I want to send a business newsletter out with hyperlinks in it. I want to get rid of people having to press CTRL and then the link. How do I do this. I know you can do it on individual computers but how do I override it so even if their computer has CTRL on it will let them just click the hyperlink without hte CTRL. The cure is worse than the problem. You would have to put a macro in the document to change the option setting on the recipient's computer (and, to be a good citizen, another macro to restore the original setting when they close your document). Because macros in documents could be malicious code (a.k.a. viruses), Word displays a very scary message when it finds them, and the recipient would have to click a button in that message to enable your macro. My advice is to forget about it. If a particular recipient has the option for Ctrl+click turned on, then presumably that's the way they want to use hyperlinks -- don't mess with that. The same thing goes for most of the machine-specific options. If it really, really bothers you -- and given that you don't want recipients to edit your newsletter anyway -- then convert it to PDF and send that instead of a Word document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Overriding CTRL in hyperlinks
You cannot control the settings on the recipients' computers. Of course, you
could create a macro to turn off the setting, but you can't force them to install the macro... Therefore, it will be easier to just ask them to turn off "Use Ctrl + Click to follow hyperlink" in the Word options. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Ashley101" wrote in message ... I want to send a business newsletter out with hyperlinks in it. I want to get rid of people having to press CTRL and then the link. How do I do this. I know you can do it on individual computers but how do I override it so even if their computer has CTRL on it will let them just click the hyperlink without hte CTRL. |
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