How To Put Hyperlink on Nav Button Without Creating a Page

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I want to have a navigation button on my home page that goes to a
hyperlink, but doesn't open a page. I have the button (and page), and
have added a hyperlink using the Navigation page, but how do I get rid
of the page without also getting rid of the button?
 
You would have to create a external link (absolute URL [http://www.domainname.com/pagename.htm])

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FP2002 and FP2003 have a specific function for creating external links, where the KB was for FP2000,
which doesn't have that ability.

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Dick said:
When I created a new page and an external link to the URL, another
page was created under the child page. I tried to follow your
instructions as well as those on
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;219948
However, when I publish, then click on the new button it just takes me
to the new page as before. It does not go to the URL.
FP2000

Dick



You would have to create a external link (absolute URL [http://www.domainname.com/pagename.htm])
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A hyperlink is a link to a URL (page) by it's nature
- so you can't have a nav bar link that goes nowhere
- and you can't have a nav bar link that is a bookmark either

Why bother to have a button (nav bar link) that goes no where (doesn't open a page)

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"Dick" <LeadWinger> wrote in message |I want to have a navigation button on my home page that goes to a
| hyperlink, but doesn't open a page. I have the button (and page), and
| have added a hyperlink using the Navigation page, but how do I get rid
| of the page without also getting rid of the button?
 
It wouldn't be going nowhere. The navigation button would take you to
an external URL instead of an internal page on the website. The
reason being that we have three websites, one is which is devoted to a
specific subject, the other two have information on that subject as
well as other information. The idea being to eliminate duplication so
that everyone has the same info. So instead having the nav buttons on
the two sites go to internal pages with duplicated information, they
would instead take you out to the third website that is the primary
keeper of the information. Apparently, the two other web masters have
solved the problem, and the buttons on their sites now bring people
back to mine. We knew that we could just add a hyperlink somewhere on
a page to accomplish the same thing, but we wanted to use a nav button
on the home pages.

Dick
 
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