how to format text as a hyperlink?

[Howard]

Hi,
In part of a document I have a big table of filenames referring to files
stored in a couple of folders.
is there an easy way of making them all hyperlinks to those files?
There are about 300 of them so I don't want to do each one seperately if I
can help it!
(I can do a search and replace to add the folder name to the front of the
filename)
Howard

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You might want to try making them MacroButton fields. See the article on
using macrobutton fields for hyperlinks on the MVP FAQ site. If your
filenames are in a single column, you should be able to write a macro that
will go down the column and convert these. At the same time, you could apply
the hyperlink character style to them if you want.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

On the AutoFormat tab of Tools | AutoCorrect or Format | AutoFormat, make
sure you have "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks" selected, then
run AutoFormat over the document.

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[Howard]

Sorry, this did nothing at all.

I got some joy when I fiddled with the file names and changed the correct
one of

C:\Documents and Settings\hsm\My Documents\Howard\ramsey\ucas ref.doc

to

\\Documents and Settings\hsm\My Documents\Howard\ramsey\ucas ref.doc

to make it look like a network path (with the intention of changing it back
with a search and replace later) but all that did was format the \\Documents
bit. (like its doing in this email!)

Howard

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

<shrug> Works for me, but I'm using it on URLs not file paths.

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[Charles Kenyon]

Try double slash marks and quotation marks around anything that has a space
in it.
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[Howard]

<shrug> Works for me, but I'm using it on URLs not file paths.

Er... yes.... that's why I said in my post that I was trying to do this on
file paths!

In my job, where I often have to put urls into a document, having them
autoformat to hyperlinks is more of a pain than a benefit.

Nevermind, Thanks for the speedy reply