How long a hyperlink could be?

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In Insert Hyperlink dialog box. Is there a limitation on how much characters
can I type in the Text to display and Address fields?

If so, are there any differences between Word XP, 2003 and 2007?
 
geotso said:
In Insert Hyperlink dialog box. Is there a limitation on how much characters
can I type in the Text to display and Address fields?

If so, are there any differences between Word XP, 2003 and 2007?
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I did not find any info regarding that type of limit. For more info on
various limits associated with Word, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211489
 
Jean-Guy Marcil said:
I did not find any info regarding that type of limit. For more info on
various limits associated with Word, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211489
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The (undocumented) limit is 514 characters. We hashed this out in the thread
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...roup:microsoft.public.word.*#db6309cc2de1070d

If you need more than that, the workaround is to use an alias service such
as http://tinyurl.com.

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Jay Freedman said:
The (undocumented) limit is 514 characters. We hashed this out in the thread
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Typical... I guess they figured that 514 was sufficiently long so that
nobody would ever go over that limit, so they did not bother to document it...

Thanks Jay.
 
then, "Jean-Guy Marcil" climbed to the rostrum and said:
Typical... I guess they figured that 514 was sufficiently long so that
nobody would ever go over that limit, so they did not bother to document it...

Thanks Jay.
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However, the number itself is a bit strange for me!
What was the reason to choose the 514? A "binary" choice sounds much better
for me, like 2x2^8=512 :)
 
geotso said:
then, "Jean-Guy Marcil" climbed to the rostrum and said:

However, the number itself is a bit strange for me!
What was the reason to choose the 514? A "binary" choice sounds much better
for me, like 2x2^8=512 :)
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Absolutely! I did have the same thought!
 
Jean-Guy Marcil said:
Absolutely! I did have the same thought!
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All I know is what I see. <shrug> It did accept 514 characters. Maybe two of
them are stored in hyperspace.

Someday we need to have a session with the Word product group to crawl
through the code looking for the reasons for things like this. Sure, and
they have nothing better to do... ;-)

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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