hyperlinks dissolve into (fields???)

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William - 04 Jan 2004 22:01 GMT

I'm using Word 2003. I'm accustomed to typing an email address or a link to the Internet into a Word doc and having it become "hot" as soon as I add a space following the entry. Now I find that I have a "field" in curley brackets that contains the information. If I right click on the field and choose select, I get the hot link. However, when I close the document and reopen it, the fields are there again.

I'm sure there is some very useful feature that I'm yet unaware of in the system, but for the time being I'd really like to have the links behave as they did in Word XP or 2000.

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TF - 04 Jan 2004 22:37 GMT

Hi WIlliam

What you are seeing if Fieldcodes displayed. Go to Tools, Options, View tab
and clear the option to see fieldcodes.

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I'm using Word 2003. I'm accustomed to typing an email address or a link to
the Internet into a Word doc and having it become "hot" as soon as I add a
space following the entry. Now I find that I have a "field" in curley
brackets that contains the information. If I right click on the field and
choose select, I get the hot link. However, when I close the document and
reopen it, the fields are there again.

I'm sure there is some very useful feature that I'm yet unaware of in the
system, but for the time being I'd really like to have the links behave as
they did in Word XP or 2000.

Reply to this Message