Help wth hyperlinks_Please

[Combs, Richard]

Susan Curtzwiler wrote: 
 
> I have been reading and following the help files and the User Guide
for
> days now.  I cannot successfully and consistently make a simple link
within
> the same document.
> 
> It looks like you need to save as "View Only" in order to activate the
> link.  I have done that and also saved regular and I cannot get the
link to
> jump from point A to point B
> or in other words to go from the "new link" to the "specified
destination".
> 
> Here is what I am doing.
> 
> 1.	Select the word or phrase that is the destination
> 2.	Go to Special>Hypertext
> 3.	In the Command box, select "Specify Named Destination"
> 4.	In the Syntax box it says "newlink"   and then next to that I
type in
> the word to be found  "checklist"  all lower case
> 5.	The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked
> 6.	Click on "New Hypertext Marker"
> 
> then I go to the starting point
> 
> 1.	Select the word or phrase that will be marked as the starting
point
> 2.	Go to Special>Hypertext
> 3.	In the Command box, select "Jump to Named Destination"
> 4.	In the Syntax box it says "gotolink" and then next to that I
type in
> the word that was used at the destination point "server"  all lower
case
> 5.	The checkbox for "Validate Command upon Insertion is checked
> 6.	Click on "New Hypertext Marker"

Congrats, Susan, you've restarted the list! :-)

You should be getting an error message when you create the link, since
you have "Validate Command upon Insertion" selected and you're creating
a hyperlink to a destination that doesn't exist. 

In your first step 4, you created a "Named Destination," naming it
"checklist." That created a marker at the place you want to jump to. 

In the second step 4, when you create a "Jump to Named Destination," you
must enter the name you gave the destination -- "checklist" -- not the
word at the destination point. The hyperlink points to a marker, not a
word in the text flow. In this case, it should be the "checklist" marker
you created to mark the destination. 

HTH!
Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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