Hyperlinks in Headers and Footers

[Guest]

Hopefully someone will be able to assist me in what I thought would be a very
basic and simple task. I am creating a Letterhead in MS Word which requires
hyperlinks to appear on every page (eg, as part of a header and/or footer).
Unfortunately, even the most simple of header/footer hyperlinks will not work
in Word. The text appears but nothing happens (except when you change the
focus to to Header). Very frustrating!! Hope this all makes sense :-S

I've checked online MS help without luck. Surely this (basic??) function is
available. I have MS Office Professional 2003.

If this function isn't available, does anyone have any suggestions as to how
to get around it.

Looking forward to receiving an answer.

cheers

 

[Graham Mayor]

The reason it doesn't work is quite simple. The header/footer is not in the
text layer of the document and so to access it you have to switch to that
layer. If you want a hyperlink to appear in the text layer on each page,
then you'll have to put it there manually on the page (or in a frame or
table cell - not a text box).
If it's a letter head, why does it need a hyperlink? You can't use
hyperlinks in printed letters - or is there something extra to this that you
are not explaining?

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[Chuck Davis]

Hopefully someone will be able to assist me in what I thought would be a
very
basic and simple task. I am creating a Letterhead in MS Word which
requires
hyperlinks to appear on every page (eg, as part of a header and/or
footer).
Unfortunately, even the most simple of header/footer hyperlinks will not
work
in Word. The text appears but nothing happens (except when you change the
focus to to Header). Very frustrating!! Hope this all makes sense :-S

I've checked online MS help without luck. Surely this (basic??) function
is
available. I have MS Office Professional 2003.

If this function isn't available, does anyone have any suggestions as to
how
to get around it.

Looking forward to receiving an answer.

cheers

If you have Adobe Acrobat (not the reader), you could convert your document
to a pdf and insert active hyperlinks anywhere in the document. I use this
for the table of contents and page to page connectors for our club's
newsletter: See: http://www.myscacc.org/Newsletters/0504News.pdf