Hyperlinks or bookmarks or what?

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Iconoclast

I am using Word 2002. Would like to insert a link in my long document that
will let me jump from Chapter 4 in the Table of Contents, to the beginning
of Chapter 4, just by clicking on "Chapter 4" in the Table of Contents.

What is this called: A link, OLE, bookmark, hyperlink, or what? Once I know
what it is called, I can look it up in Help.
 
You don't need to do any of this; the feature is already built in. By
default, Word 2002 hyperlinks TOC entries to their respective pages. When
you hover the mouse over the entry, you should get a ScreenTip (provided you
have these enabled on the View menu of Tools | Options) telling you how to
follow the link; the default is Ctrl+click, but you can change this to a
simple click by clearing the appropriate check box on the Edit tab of Tools
| Options.

In Word 2002, the TOC dialog gives you the option of *not* hyperlinking TOC
entries (in Word 2000, you have to do this by manually removing the \h
switch from the TOC field). Even if you do this, the page numbers will
remain hyperlinked as they were in earlier versions of Word.

To return to the TOC from any page, you can use the Go to TOC button, which
you can add to a toolbar by selecting the GotoTableofContents command from
the All Commands category in Tools | Customize | Commands and dragging it to
the toolbar.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Hi Suzanne

The TOC you refer to is not what I use. I prepared a TOC manually. In
addition to links from my "custom TOC" to Chapters, I also need to do other
hyperlinks (is that what they are called in a .doc?) from some words to
other words in the document.
 
Hi, Walter,

Leaving aside the question of why you would go to so much trouble by
not using the built-in TOC feature (I suppose that's part of being an
iconoclast)...

Yes, you can certainly use hyperlinks from your manual TOC to the
corresponding places in the document. If you first select a portion of
the text in the TOC, that text will be replaced by a hyperlink; if you
don't select anything first, a hyperlink will be inserted. To make the
hyperlink, press Ctrl+K or use the menu item Insert > Hyperlink.

In the dialog that appears, in the left column, click the item "Place
In This Document". Then the middle part of the dialog shows the
headings and bookmarks in the document, and you can select one. (If
neither applies, cancel the dialog and use Insert > Bookmark to insert
a new bookmark at the place you want to jump to.) Make sure the
"Display Text" box shows the text you want in the TOC, and click OK.

The display text will be inserted with the Hyperlink style. If you
don't want it blue and underlined, use the Style task pane to modify
the definition of that style.
 
Hi Iconoclast,
I prepared a TOC manually. In
addition to links from my "custom TOC" to Chapters, I also need to do other
hyperlinks (is that what they are called in a .doc?) from some words to
other words in the document.
Click to expand...
Simplest would probably be to
- insert bookmarks at the target points
- use Insert/Cross Reference with an activated "Hyperlink" checkbox so that
the cross reference is also a hyperlink.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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Have your tried control+right click? Bring your cursor over the chapter 4 in your TOC then press CONTROL+RIGHT CLICK. It will take you directly to the beginning of chapter 4.

Sid
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