Re: [icon-users] Link does not appear in WORD
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:07:47 +0100
In message <50e12aba8djohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
John Harrison <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Richard Ashbery
>> when the document is saved as a WORD file and networked to a PC the link
>> disappears
> Martin
>> EW itself can recreate it when importing the Word file, which might
>> give the impression that it is there in the Word file
> That explains something that happened to me lately!
Not really.
> I wrote an article for our Parish Magazine, and included a URL. The editor
> prefers input in Word format (not sure why, since he uses a DTP package to
> produce the magazine). When the magazine appeared, there was a blank after
> 'for details see:' where the URL should have been. I checked that the URL
> was in the file attached to the e-mail, or so I thought, because of course
> I opened the file with EW.
That is not the same as what I described earlier and not the same
problem that Richard had, unless I misunderstood him. When he wrote
"the link disappears", I presume he meant that the link is no longer
blue and underlined and its associated URL is lost, but the link text
is still there.
A link has a visible text part and an invisible URL. The visible text
part is always present even when exporting to Word. It is just not a
link any more.
Typically, the visible text part and the URL are the same anyway, in
particular in this case where you want to display the URL in the text.
So, in your case, you still see the link in Word. However, in Word
this is now a special field, not plain text, so at a guess, the
problem was introduced when copying from Word to the DTP program.
Martin
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