Re: Word links

[Dianne Blake <write-it -at- home -dot- com>]

Emru Townsend wrote:
If you'd rather have it on but want to stop one or two links from
appearing as you type, hit Ctrl-Z right after the link appears.

To make any text into a hyperlink, select the text and press Ctrl-K.

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I've had the problem of wanting to turn the little buggers off because
the programmers I work with use the @ sign to denote a command versus a
value (e.g. <tag>= -at- command vs <tag>=myvalue). 

I kept going up to the hyperlink button on the toolbar to turn each one
of them off. This is frustrating to a touch typist. But I didn't want to
turn the feature off because we use our and other company URLs in
several places in the document (especially to link to other documents). 

***** >> The Ctrl+Z keystrokes work wonderfully. 

***** >> The Ctrl+K however requires a two step process.

  * If you highlight the text and press Ctrl+K, the Insert Hyperlink
    dialog box appears. Notice that it inserts "mailto:"; to your 
    text. This means you have to delete it before pressing enter.

  * If you don't highlight the text and place your cursor directly
    behind the text - Word doesn't recognize what word you want to
    convert, so then when the Insert Hyperlink dialog box appears,
    you have to type the link, or select it from a list before 
    pressing enter.

My preference here would be my old standby - select the text and then
press the Insert Hyperlink button on the toolbar. No dialog box appears,
it knows what text is to be hyperlinked, and no unwanted "mailto:"; text
is inserted.

** HOWEVER ** the Ctrl+Z tip is worth a lot because I leave the
hyperlink feature on and seldom have a need to turn a link back on once
it's been turned off.  This should make my life a lot simplier! Thanks!

Dianne Blake
write-it -at- home -dot- com