Hi Oetss

As far as I know, you can't run code from a Hyperlink field, and you can't
use the Hyperlink field to open a document read-only.

But you can use a Macrobutton field. Do ctrl-F9, and then within the braces
that Word gives you, type Macrobutton YourMacroName Click here to open the
XYZ document.

Create your code to open the document read-only. YourMacroName must be a Sub
with no parameters. There's more info in Word's help under Macrobutton.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly.  Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

Hi Oetss,

There's nothing to run any code when a hyperlink is clicked...

You could embed the hyperlink in a MacroButton field, then use the
code the field executes to do whatever. But given your requirement,
I wouldn't use a real hyperlink as the Macrobutton prompt, just text
formatted to look like a hyperlink. You'd need to use the
Documents.Open method in the macro code to control HOW a document is
opened (a hyperlink can ONLY open a document, it can't affect how
the document is opened).

Here's an code sample for the basic approach. This picks up the file
path from the macrobutton field, so you could use the same macro for
multiple files.

Sub OpenFileReadOnly()
   Dim filePath As String
   Dim startPos As Long
   
   'Cut off the spaces at beginning and end of field code
   filePath = Trim(Selection.Fields(1).Code)
   'Cut off the field name and macro name
   startPos = InStrRev(filePath, " ", -1)
   filePath = Mid(filePath, startPos)
   filePath = Trim(filePath)
   Documents.Open FileName:=filePath, ReadOnly:=True
End Sub

Insert/Field to create the MacroButton field. Once it's inserted you
use Alt+F9 to turn the field codes on and off. You can format the
file path in the field code so that it displays like a hyperlink.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17
2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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