Hyperlink mechanism gone awry on MS Word - Advice sought

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I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.

Starting yesterday:
I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to
it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index
and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did
earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z
\u}

Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http://
code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I
expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead
got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" }
(My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in
its entirety.)

Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/
cleaned 6 problematic
things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-(

The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these
two days) on this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...b4e29f64fd0/90347b8fee3c5c9d#90347b8fee3c5c9d

Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard
 
I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.

Starting yesterday:
I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to
it.  Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index
and Tables | Table of Contents.  Instead of getting a TOC as I did
earlier today,  I now got  an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z
\u}

Additional symptom:  Inside the same Word document,  I typed "http://
code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter.  I
expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead
got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" }
(My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in
its entirety.)

Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/
cleaned 6 problematic
things.  However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-(

The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these
two days) on this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/browse_t...

Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard
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When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my
browser (Firefox 3.6.13), the third paragraph in my original post,
following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string:
http://code.google.
com/p/msysgit/
(written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in
double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes,
which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document.

I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the
symptom I'm trying counter.

Best wishes,
Richard
 
You've just toggled on the display of field codes instead of field results.
Press Alt+F9 to toggle back.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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I'm running MS Office Word 2003 SP3 over WinXP-Pro/SP3.

Starting yesterday:
I entered some text and assigned the Heading 3 property to
it. Then in a line or two above. I clicked Insert | Reference | Index
and Tables | Table of Contents. Instead of getting a TOC as I did
earlier today, I now got an indented string like: {TOC \o "1-6"\h\z
\u}

Additional symptom: Inside the same Word document, I typed "http://
code.google.com/p/msysgit/" (sans quotes) and pressed Enter. I
expected the text to be converted to hyperlink, as usual, but instead
got the string: { HYPERLINK "http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" }
(My spacing might be off because I couldn't copy & paste the string in
its entirety.)

Running a full scan of my hard drive, my security package Prev-X found/
cleaned 6 problematic
things. However, the hyperlink malfunctions didn't disappear :-(

The above is the gist of what I reported (with no response over these
two days) on this
thread:http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/browse_t...

Anybody have any ideas about how I can correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Richard
Click to expand...

When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my
browser (Firefox 3.6.13), the third paragraph in my original post,
following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string:
http://code.google.
com/p/msysgit/
(written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in
double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes,
which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document.

I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the
symptom I'm trying counter.

Best wishes,
Richard
 
You've just toggled on the display of field codes instead of field results.
Press Alt+F9 to toggle back.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

message







When I opened my original post (as listed in Google Groups) in my
browser (Firefox 3.6.13),  the third paragraph in my original post,
following the word "HYPERLINK", was the string:
   http://code.google.
    com/p/msysgit/
(written as a single line with no embedded spaces and enclosed in
double quotes) presented as a hyperlink without the enclosing quotes,
which of course is what I expected originally in my Word document.

I hope this helps in presenting an accurate representation of the
symptom I'm trying counter.

Best wishes,
Richard
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Hi Suzanne,

Thank you very much for unraveling this mystery. I tried it and got
my beloved links back, which is great.

Furthermore, I was very confident the you were right because I was
clumsily defining Ctrl- and Ctrl-Shift- for the F9 key prior to this
mishap. No doubt I accidentally changed Word's normal response to Alt-
F9.in the process.

You're an Angel.

Best wishes,
Richard
 
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