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Peter - 08 Jul 2004 17:57 GMT

I'm composing a long training document. I would like to include a "Return To
Top"-style hyperlink at the foot of each page to enhance navigation. I've
inserted a hyperlink in a footer, which works, but it actually requires 3
clicks to use -- the first double-click "activates" the hyperlink (and
simultaneously reveals the footer outline) and a subsequent single-click
will actually follow the link. This will confuse my users.

Is there a way to get a footer hyperlink to act more like an HTTP hyperlink
and take you to its destination with only a single click?

Thanks very much,

Peter

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Graham Mayor - 09 Jul 2004 05:38 GMT

While you can add a hyperlink to a footnote, the footer area is not in the
document text plane and so has to be selected in order to access anything it
contains, so this plan isn't going to work. You can, however put a frame in
the footer region but in the text plane, individually on each required page.

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> I'm composing a long training document. I would like to include a
> "Return To Top"-style hyperlink at the foot of each page to enhance
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Peter - 13 Jul 2004 22:31 GMT

Thanks very much. I wasn't 100% sure how this was to be accomplished using
frames, and I wasn't entirely sure you weren't using 'frame' as a synonym
for 'text box' -- so I used text boxes when I couldn't suss the frame
concept. Text boxes seem to work well -- do you know of any tutorial
material on frames per se? I didn't google much on them, at least on non-web
uses.

Thanks, regardless.

> While you can add a hyperlink to a footnote, the footer area is not in the
> document text plane and so has to be selected in order to access anything it
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