Problems viewing Word docs - in particular, hyperlinks.

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Richard Adrian

[Using Word 97 SR-2, and Windows Millenium].

Hi there,
I'm wondering if anyone can help with this, please.

Started to have a problem about a week ago. Previously, when I've typed a
Web address in a Word doc, it automatically converted it to a blue,
underlined hyperlink. Now, however, when I'm in a Word doc (viewing in
either Page Layout or in View > Normal), rather than see the hyperlink
(underlined, blue), I get
"funny bracket, then HYPERLINK, and then the web address, then funny
bracket".
(I tried to copy and paste it to this post, but it came out correctly
formatted, ie www.FreshMinds.co.uk, for eg.

This is inconvenient, because it alters the formatting of the whole document
(the version it gives me takes up more space, eg it inserts the word
'hyperlink' all over the place).

However - strangely - when I do a Print preview, the doc is correctly
formatted; and when I print the doc, it is also correctly formatted.

What I've done about it:

1. Went into Word help. This talked about the setting in 'Autocorrect >
Autoformat as you type', ie "Replace as you type - Internet and network
paths with hyperlinks". That box is ticked.
2. Went onto the Microsoft support site, and searched the Knowledge Base.
Could not find an article which corresponded to this problem.
3. Came onto these newsgroups; searched this one and the "PageLayout"
newsgroup for items containing the word "Hyperlink", but it did not return a
single message.

Hence my post here.

Can anyone help, please?
For some reason, in the back of my mind, I think this could be a software
security issue: could it be my Firewall (Norton) that is doing this?

Additional info; around the same time that this happened, my Outlook also
started to behave differently - it displayed messages differently, and http
addresses there also began to be displayed as described above, ie "funny
bracket - HYPERLINK".

Grateful any thoughts.
I'm also posting this to "microsoft.public.word.pagelayout".

Thanks,

Richard.
 
Just a quick Nb here. Since posting, I have found, through exploring the
Word 'Help', that the problem is to do with 'Field codes'. Currently, when
I open a Word doc, all hyperlinks are given as "bracket HYPERLINK..".
Pressing Alt + F9 turns all hyperlinks back as I want them, ie formatted as
hyperlinks.

But, as I say below, this has only been going on for a week. Why did it
start? And is there a setting I can change so that hyperlinks automatically
are shown, when I open a doc, as hyperlinks (ie so that I don't have to
press Alt + F9 every time?).

Thanks again,
Richard.
 
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Richard Adrian said:
Just a quick Nb here. Since posting, I have found, through exploring the
Word 'Help', that the problem is to do with 'Field codes'. Currently, when
I open a Word doc, all hyperlinks are given as "bracket HYPERLINK..".
Pressing Alt + F9 turns all hyperlinks back as I want them, ie formatted as
hyperlinks.

But, as I say below, this has only been going on for a week. Why did it
start? And is there a setting I can change so that hyperlinks automatically
are shown, when I open a doc, as hyperlinks (ie so that I don't have to
press Alt + F9 every time?).

Thanks again,
Richard.

Richard Adrian said:
[Using Word 97 SR-2, and Windows Millenium].

Hi there,
I'm wondering if anyone can help with this, please.

Started to have a problem about a week ago. Previously, when I've typed a
Web address in a Word doc, it automatically converted it to a blue,
underlined hyperlink. Now, however, when I'm in a Word doc (viewing in
either Page Layout or in View > Normal), rather than see the hyperlink
(underlined, blue), I get
"funny bracket, then HYPERLINK, and then the web address, then funny
bracket".
(I tried to copy and paste it to this post, but it came out correctly
formatted, ie www.FreshMinds.co.uk, for eg.

This is inconvenient, because it alters the formatting of the whole document
(the version it gives me takes up more space, eg it inserts the word
'hyperlink' all over the place).

However - strangely - when I do a Print preview, the doc is correctly
formatted; and when I print the doc, it is also correctly formatted.

What I've done about it:

1. Went into Word help. This talked about the setting in 'Autocorrect
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Autoformat as you type', ie "Replace as you type - Internet and network
paths with hyperlinks". That box is ticked.
2. Went onto the Microsoft support site, and searched the Knowledge Base.
Could not find an article which corresponded to this problem.
3. Came onto these newsgroups; searched this one and the "PageLayout"
newsgroup for items containing the word "Hyperlink", but it did not
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return
a
single message.

Hence my post here.

Can anyone help, please?
For some reason, in the back of my mind, I think this could be a software
security issue: could it be my Firewall (Norton) that is doing this?

Additional info; around the same time that this happened, my Outlook also
started to behave differently - it displayed messages differently, and http
addresses there also began to be displayed as described above, ie "funny
bracket - HYPERLINK".

Grateful any thoughts.
I'm also posting this to "microsoft.public.word.pagelayout".

Thanks,

Richard.
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