MacroButton as hyperlink (Win95, Word 97, SR2)

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I have been trying to make a macrobutton work as a hyperlink (on an intranet) to docs other than Word and have at succeeded. So for anyone who wants a hyperlink in a protected area here is the macro to call up in the button field:

Sub link_go()

ActiveDocument.FollowHyperlink Address:= _
“emm4000.pdf”, NewWindow:=False _
, AddHistory:=True

End Sub

Any URL you like between the ” ” – my example is a relative URL with everything in the same directory.

In a browser it opens in the same window but on a harddrive it will open the new application in a seperate window.

I know it looks obvious but it’s a major triumph for me… Thanks to Charles Kenyon for tips.

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You are welcome. One further tip is you can make it a single-click link rather than requiring a double-click by putting the following code into an AutoOpen macro in the linking document:

Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1

(You can, instead, put the same code into the Document_Open event handler in This Document.)

To set the option back to the default, the language would be Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 2

I was tipped off to this by Bill Coan on the Word newsgroups.

I’ve put what little I know about macrobuttons in the draft of a page I’m writing on fields.

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