Hyperlink - Alternative Text

[Nigel]

I've ceated a page in P2003 which containd graphics to which I've attached
hyperlinks to go to specific locations within our company website. When
hovering over the graphic the whole path is displayed. Is there a way of only
displaying text that I want to display? Inside the Insert Hyperlink option,
the "TExt to Display" option is greyed out!

Thanks

 

[DavidF]

I have never been able to get the "text to display" option either.

You can add alternative text to an image by selecting the image > format >
picture > web tab. The alt text will be visible if the image does not load,
and is read by text readers, but this text will not be visible with a mouse
hover as it was in Pub 2000.

If it is really important to you then you can probably add a tool tip via
the title attribute of the link (href) tag, but you would have to import the
image instead of embedding it, which is going to take a bit more work.

Try the insert html code fragment tool to insert the following code snippet:

<a title="Looky, looky a tool tip" href="http://www.google.com/">Hover
Here</a>

If that is what you are looking for, repost the question in the web group
and I will try to work out the code that would work when you imported an
image. microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign

It will probably be a lot easier and more effective if you just add the text
in a text box below or above the image, as the user will not know to hover
over the image in order to get the tool tip...or the instructions you might
want to communicate.

DavidF

 

[Nigel]

Many thanks for your response. It just goes to prove my hypothesis: the later
versions of Microsoft products aren't always the best/user friendly!

I'll give it a try.

Thanks

 

[DavidF]

I do use some software that is really old because the newer versions are
less functional. So I would not disagree that your hypothesis is correct in
some cases. In the case of Publisher, MSFT changed the html coding engine
significantly in Pub 2002, and then again in 2003...and tweaked it further
in 2007. In doing so, some functionality was lost, but some was gained. Like
most things there are advantages and disadvantages to each version.

DavidF