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Adding a ScreenTip Adding a screen tip to a hyperlink in a Word document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Adjusting Spell Check for Internet Addresses If you don't want Word's spell checker to flag e-mail address or URLs as incorrect, apply this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Closing Documents after a Hyperlink When you click a hyperlink that takes you to another document, Word dutifully opens the new document in its own window. What if you want the old document (the one containing the hyperlink) to be closed? You may be out of luck, as explained in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Controlling the Program Used with Hyperlinked Images How to tell Windows which program to use for graphics with hyperlinks. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Creating a Hyperlink that Opens the Linked Object Hyperlinks can be very helpful for loading and displaying external resources. But they are less useful for opening and displaying objects embedded within the current document. This tip examines why this is so. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Creating Hyperlinks from E-mail Addresses Got a document that has a whole raft of e-mail address in it? You can easily convert all of them to clickable hyperlinks by using the AutoFormat capabilities of Word. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Editing a Hyperlink Word allows you to embed active hyperlinks in your documents. If you later want to change or edit that hyperlink, you can use the techniques discussed in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Getting Rid of the Ctrl+Click Message When you add a hyperlink to a document, you can later click that link to display whatever is linked to. Beginning in Word 2002, you had to Ctrl+Click to follow the link, and a message was displayed to that effect whenever you put the mouse pointer over the link. If you want to get rid of that message, you can do so by applying the techniques discussed in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Hyperlinking to a Specific Excel Worksheet Word allows you to create hyperlinks in a document. These hyperlinks can go to a Web site or some other resource, such as an Excel workbook. How to open a specific worksheet (or go to a specific cell) in the workbook can be a little bit baffling, at least until you discover the techniques in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Keeping a Document Open After Hyperlinking A solution to Hyperlinking closing your Word document in Word 97. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000

Maintaining Proper Hyperlinks in Word 2000 and later. Word 2000 and later has a hard to find option for retaining proper hyperlinks. Microsoft Word versions: 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Opening an Attached Word File Trouble opening an attached file from your email? Try this. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Using Relative HTML Font Sizes in Word 2000 How to remove the Word specific HTML codes in your Web document. Microsoft Word versions: 2000

Weird Hyperlink Behavior When you insert a hyperlink, you expect it to look like, well, a hyperlink. But what if it really looks like some strange coding that you don’t recognize? This tip explains what the problem may be and how you can quickly get back to the hyperlinks you expect. Microsoft Word versions: 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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