Linking through a document

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I am trying to link to a website though a a separate document.

Document #1 contains the hyper link to the website. It is an appendix type
document and will not be used by most people.

Document #2 should link through Document #1 to the website. It is the
document that most people will be reading and I don't want them to click on a
hyperlink, have it take them to Document #2, and then click on the website
hyperlink again. I would like for them to just click on the link in Document
#1 and have it take them directly through to the website.

I would like to do it this way because if the website address ever changes
then I only need to change the link once. There are mutliple documents that
need to have the same link so it would be easier to link them through one
link and then out to the website.

Please let me know if Word can do this.

Thank you,

Eric Boutwell
 
Eric:

AFAIK there's no "click-on-through" function or switch in hyperlinks.

What you're trying to do is store that URL in one place (document 1) and
refer to that URL from all other places so you don't have to revise all
referenced to the URL.

You may be better storing the URL in a third document, not directly used by
the readers at all, used just to store this and other URLs etc.

You would save the URLs in your "References" document, create a bookmark
around each URL, then insert the URLs wherever you needed them in hyperlink
fields by using an IncludeText field.

So the hyperlinks in all documents would look like:

{HYPERLINK { INCLUDETEXT "D:\\Collection Folder\\References.doc" DOT_Home

_Page \* MERGEFORMAT } \o "DOT Site" }

If you've only got the one URL, you could just store it in one document (in
the place you're most likely to expect to find it when you need to update it)
assign it a bookmark, and let the IncludeText field refer to that document.

Bear
 
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