How do I maintain active hyperlinks in a form-protected Word doc?

[Guest]

I am creating a document that contains 1) check box forms and 2) hyperlinks
to bookmarked sections of another word document. I need to select the Protect
Form icon or Protect Document option in order to make the check boxes active.
However, doing so inactivates the hyperlinks. How do I alter the document so
that both the check boxes and hyperlinks are active?

THANKS!!!

 

[Guest]

NOTE -- I cannot protect certain sections by creating section breaks because
the hyperlinks and check box forms are co-located in the same sections (and
sometimes on the same lines) of the document.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks Suzanne. Will this approach work if the hyperlinks are directed to
bookmarked fields in other Word documents rather than to URLs?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't know the answer to that, as I've never used this technique, but I
don't see any reason why it would not work.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I have used the macro technique but now the text for my hyperlinks will not
break up across multiple lines - a new line of text is started at the
beginning of each hyperlink. Is there a fix?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe fields (and a hyperlink is a field) can be broken across
lines.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks Suzanne. I ended up splitting the hyperlinks into 2. I appreciate the
help!