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SteveK - 10 Dec 2003 13:20 GMT

I changed the value per your last reply. When I save it,
it comes back looking like this:<OPTION SELECTED
VALUE="<a" TITLE=United Way of Central Indiana>United
Way of Central Indiana
The http reference is gone, and doesn't work when I click
on it.

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lostinspace - 11 Dec 2003 12:48 GMT

----- Original Message -----
From: "SteveK" <>

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: Drop Down menus

> I changed the value per your last reply. When I save it,
> it comes back looking like this:<OPTION SELECTED
> VALUE="<a" TITLE=United Way of Central Indiana>United
> Way of Central Indiana
> The http reference is gone, and doesn't work when I click
> on it.

Steve,
My apoligies, I didn't see your reply, which BTW didn't include
the previous content [below.]

The reason for this is because you performed a cut and paste directly from
the NG mail I sent and into the Word doc, which resulted in Word adding
changes.

If you open the html file with NotePad and perform the same cut and paste,
the characters will remain as you desire.

>-----Original Message-----
>----- Original Message -----
[quoted text clipped - 30 lines]
>> >Having the drop down created and accessible?
>> >Change to the following (inserting your data in place of the

hypotheticals)

>> ><a href="dropdown1.html">dropdown1</a>
>> ><a href="dropdown2.html">dropdown2</a>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>> >relative to the current folder/directory.
>> > You may require a more extensive relative link or even an absolute

link.

>> >.
>
>Edit this line to read the following:
>
><OPTION VALUE= <a href="http://www.uwci.org/" title""United Way of

Central

>Indiana">United Way of Central Indiana</a>
>
>And the remaining lines accordingly.
>
>.

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SteveK - 11 Dec 2003 14:16 GMT

I didn't cut and paste, I opened up the source code page
in Word using the Web Page tool bar, then typed in your
suggestion. After I type in the change, I saved it, then
tried to use the drop down menu to see if it worked. When
it didn't, I went back to the source code page and noticed
the formatting was different.

>-----Original Message-----
>
[quoted text clipped - 81 lines]
>
>.

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lostinspace - 11 Dec 2003 18:55 GMT

----- Original Message -----
From: "SteveK" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Drop Down menus

> I didn't cut and paste, I opened up the source code page
> in Word using the Web Page tool bar, then typed in your
[quoted text clipped - 103 lines]
> >
> >.

Hey Steve,
Try opening the file with NotePad and typing and/or
cutting and pasting the change and you will see the result will be exactly
as you type.
My entire point was that the change from what you desire to input and
actually results is the product of Word.

I've had it happen on occasion in FP. When it does, I don't try to
understand why it occurs. It is enough for me that it occurs and is not what
I intended and results in the link failing and I'm required to seek an
alternative method.

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