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MS Office Forum / Word / Document Management / April 2006Index & links within a Word doc
Hi, this is a strange one - hope someone can help :o) I've just opened a document that I haven't used in about 3 years (haven't used anything other than basic Word features in that time either). The items on the top index are somehow linked to the sub-indexes but I cannot work out how - and definitely can't remember what I did 3 yrs ago!! The file has a load of bookmarks, but I don't think it's hyperlinks, as they behave differently. If I right-click on one of the items, and toggle field codes, it shows {{ PRIVATE HREF="#EXPERIENCE"} MACROBUTTON HTMLRESANCHOR That kind of suggests I've used some html tags and codes, but I can't work out how to display/edit them now!! Can someone please point me in the right direction ... hopefully it will all come flooding back to me if I get a start!! Many thanks, Dyson  SignatureDyson FWIW, the only time I've ever seen a PRIVATE field, it was in a document converted from WordPerfect. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Hi, this is a strange one - hope someone can help :o) > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Many thanks, > Dyson PRIVATE fields generally show up when you import documents from another format (such as WordPerfect); they serve no purpose other than to enable you to convert back again. MACROBUTTON means that clicking the field actually runs a macro (which is presumably how the jump happens) ... so check your macro code. > Hi, this is a strange one - hope someone can help :o) > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Many thanks, > Dyson Thanks for your replies, Jezebel & Suzanne... The doc has definitely only ever been in MS Word - though probably Word 2000, XP, and possibly 97. The only conclusion I can come up with is it depends what version I did things in - the most recent links all want a Ctrl + Click, turn purple once it's activated and the text is editable; the older links work on double-clicking, stay blue after use, and I can't edit the text for the link. The other strange thing is there are no macros - I've opened up the VB editor, and there's nothing there! At this rate, looks as though I might have to just delete all bookmarks, start with a clean slate and re-add them ... Guess it must just be some compatibility issues between Word versions? Thanks & regards, SignatureDyson > PRIVATE fields generally show up when you import documents from another > format (such as WordPerfect); they serve no purpose other than to enable you [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Many thanks, > > Dyson No, it's nothing to do with different versions of Word. Perhaps at some stage you did a SaveAs and converted the document to something else. Word won't otherwise insert fields of any kind; and it never inserts macrobutton fields on its own account. *Someone* did that. If not you, then someone else. > Thanks for your replies, Jezebel & Suzanne... > [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >> > Many thanks, >> > Dyson Further investigation ... the doc seems to be mixed between hyperlinks that tell you to Ctrl + Click to activate, and which bring up the hyperlink options on right-clicking, and the afore-mentioned "field code" ones, which go straight to the link on clicking. I'm Confused! Note - it's possible this doc was edited over time in different versions of Word - one of them would be XP; I'm now using 2003, but don't think any editing has been done in that version - don't know if that has anything to do with it?? SignatureDyson > Hi, this is a strange one - hope someone can help :o) > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Many thanks, > Dyson The first set of links you describe sound like it may be a Table of Contents. Might you have pasted text from a converted file into this at some time in the past? These are not field codes that Word is going to generate on its own. The Ctrl-Click thing is simply a difference in how Word responds to hyperlinks in later versions. (There is an option to set it to a simple click.) SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Further investigation ... the doc seems to be mixed between hyperlinks > that [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >> Many thanks, >> Dyson An internet search suggests these fields may have been created by using something called "Internet Assistant for Word" - a tool used to create HTML web pages from Word documents in some long-dead version of Word. Does that ring any bells with you? -- Enjoy, Tony > Hi, this is a strange one - hope someone can help :o) > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > -- > Dyson |
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