Hyperlink error message

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I am trying to copy/paste a page from Help and Support into a Word doc.. I
right click and hit refresh to remove the blue text, select all, and copy.
But when I paste into a Word doc, I get a bunch of "Error! Hyperlink
reference not valid" Messages where the expand/collapse button is. Any ideas?
 
tpax01 said:
I am trying to copy/paste a page from Help and Support into a
Word doc.. I
right click and hit refresh to remove the blue text, select
all, and copy.
But when I paste into a Word doc, I get a bunch of "Error!
Hyperlink
reference not valid" Messages where the expand/collapse button
is. Any ideas?
Click to expand...

The hyperlink is looking for bookmarks to goto; the bookmarks are
missing.
 
PopS said:
The hyperlink is looking for bookmarks to goto; the bookmarks are
missing.
Click to expand...
Interesting...why would the bookmarks be missing, and more importantly, how
do I fix it? I am in a intro to computers course, and this is one of my
assignments, to do a specific search and print out the results. The errors
are killin me! Thanks for the help!
 
tpax01 said:
Interesting...why would the bookmarks be missing, and more importantly,
how
do I fix it? I am in a intro to computers course, and this is one of my
assignments, to do a specific search and print out the results. The
errors
are killin me! Thanks for the help!
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The bookmarks refer to other parts of the unpasted Help files.
To stop the error messages in th eWord doc, right click on the offending
"link" and click on remove hyperlink from the menu.

HTH
MH
 
tpax01 said:
Interesting...why would the bookmarks be missing, and more importantly,
how
do I fix it? I am in a intro to computers course, and this is one of my
assignments, to do a specific search and print out the results. The
errors
are killin me! Thanks for the help!
Click to expand...

If there are a lot of orphaned hyperlinks or bookmarks, try pasting the text
into Notepad first, then recopying the text in Notepad and then paste the
text into Word. Pasting the text into Notepad first will strip out all the
formatting leaving just the text.

MH
 
tpax01 said:
Interesting...why would the bookmarks be missing, and more
importantly, how
do I fix it? I am in a intro to computers course, and this is
one of my
assignments, to do a specific search and print out the results.
The errors
are killin me! Thanks for the help!
Click to expand...

Mike had good responses for you, assuming you don't want the
bookmarks nor the links to work. If you do want the links to
work, you'll have a little more work on your hands; you'll have
to either re-duplicate them, or redirect them.
Since you said it's an "intro" course, this probably isn't
relevant, but just in case:
To see where a link goes to, hovering over it with your
mouse -should- show you where it wants to go to. The name after
the "#" sign would be the bookmarked item in whatever document it
wants to go to.

You might have some luck by experimenting briefly with Edit,
Paste Special, too. It can be useful.

Luck,

Pop
 
tpax01 said:
Interesting...why would the bookmarks be missing, and more
importantly, how
do I fix it? I am in a intro to computers course, and this is
one of my
assignments, to do a specific search and print out the results.
The errors
are killin me! Thanks for the help!
Click to expand...

Sorry; I forgot to answer part of that: The bookmarks are
"missing" becuase they are most likely parts of a different
document and not part of the page or portion of a page that you
copied.
A LINK usually goes TO a document.
A LINK can also go to a specific PLACE within a document, any
document, including the current, one. That PLACE is where the
bookmark is. So, it goes TO the document, and then TO the PLACE
IN that document.

Pop
 
PopS said:
Sorry; I forgot to answer part of that: The bookmarks are
"missing" becuase they are most likely parts of a different
document and not part of the page or portion of a page that you
copied.
A LINK usually goes TO a document.
A LINK can also go to a specific PLACE within a document, any
document, including the current, one. That PLACE is where the
bookmark is. So, it goes TO the document, and then TO the PLACE
IN that document.

Pop
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Thanks for the great effort and info!!! I don't need the links to work, I
just needed to show that I performed the correct search and found that page.
But I tried it with other searches, making sure I got one that contained
several expand/collapse buttons, and they copied and pasted into word fine,
no problem at all! So it is just that page I have trouble with. Weird!
Thanks again!
Tpax01>
 
tpax01 said:
Thanks for the great effort and info!!! I don't need the links to work,
I
just needed to show that I performed the correct search and found that
page.
But I tried it with other searches, making sure I got one that contained
several expand/collapse buttons, and they copied and pasted into word
fine,
no problem at all! So it is just that page I have trouble with. Weird!
Thanks again!
Click to expand...

Tpax01

Not if you think about it. The first page of a Help file tends to contain
the links (bookmarks, hyperlinks similar to a web page)to references which
reside further into the document, clicking on one would take you straight to
the reference. When you copied the page you also copied the hidden html
links associated with the "keywords". You then pasted it, with the links
intact, to a new document which had no connection with the document it came
from, therefore the links were broken, they had nothing to point to, hence
the error messages you where seeing.

Regards
Mike H
 
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