Create a hyperlink to a bookmarked Word document (2000/4.02.2717)

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Greetings,

I have a bookmark in an MS-Word 97 SR-2 document (report.doc) called ‘report3’.

I have created a hyperlink in my html page to the Word document bookmark like so:

Compliance Report

This results in nothing. I wait for a couple of seconds and the browser indicates it’s accessing the document and then it says ‘DONE’ with no results. If I remove the bookmark portion (#report3) the document opens at the top and you have to scroll to find ‘report 3’.

Is this doable or am I setting it up incorrectly? The Word document has the bookmark set up.

Thank you for your advice!

Luis

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It is late and I’m feeling kinda dopey but I believe that:
Compliance Report
should be
Compliance Report
to indicate the protocol – file access being used.

Cheers

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Catharine,

Thank you for replying! You don’t have to use the ‘file’ to have a successful link. I use it on the unix as well as microsoft servers. I have linked extensions such as ‘.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .txt’ without the ‘file’ reference. However, I did try your suggestion. Still no success in reaching a bookmarked area in a Word document.

Thanks again!

Luis

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I had no idea that this could be done … so I tried it on a web site I maintained and it worked fine for me (w/o the “file”) … but then again I have Word 2000, and I browse with IE 5.5 (with MSWord inside of the browser)

If I try the same thing with Netscape 6.1 … it opens the file in MSWord directly and DOES NOT go to the bookmark.

Ditto with using Netscape 4.74.

So I imagine it only works when browsing with Internet Explorer … and with Word working “inside” the browser.

Hope this helps.

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aebingham,

Thank you for the information!

Luis

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