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Subject:ANSWER to Links break in Word table From:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:40:46 -0500 (CDT)
I dunno why this is, but if you insert a space between the end of the URL and the section symbol that appears at the end of every cell of a table, the link lights up and works. That was the problem.
>From: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
>Date: 2008/06/11 Wed PM 03:34:59 EDT
>To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Links break in Word table
>I have had no luck googling this.
>
>I am copying URLs from the Address field in IE, and pasting them into two columns in a Word table.
>
>In the middle column, the links break. Control-click does nothing.
>
>In the right-hand column, Control-click works.
>
>What is going on? (Unfortunatly, I can't simply get rid of the middle column.)
>
>Thanks.
>--Nancy
>
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