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Milan - 07 Feb 2005 17:39 GMT

I have hyperlinks to pdf files in my Word document. Prior to opening the PDF
document I want to intercept the code so I can prompt user for certain input.

any ideas?

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Milan

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Jonathan West - 07 Feb 2005 18:16 GMT

>I have hyperlinks to pdf files in my Word document. Prior to opening the
>PDF
> document I want to intercept the code so I can prompt user for certain
> input.
>
> any ideas?

Replace your hyperlinks with MACROBUTTON fields which include the hyperlink
destination. Clicking on the MACROBUTTON field will launch a macro which can
accept the information you want to obtain, and then process the embedded
hyperlink.

Take a look at this article

Using MacroButton fields
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm

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