Hyperlinks being oddly formatted

[Tick]

Hi There,

I hope someone can help me with this because it's driving me mad.

The other day Word started formatting my hyperlinks in a really odd fashion and also refuses to display them as active links.

If I paste an address in directly from the address bar of Interent Explorer it just ends up as plain text, but if I copy and paste a hyperlink it ends up like this:
{ HYPERLINK "http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040710/325/exq4s.html" }

I tried using the help system in Word but none of the suggestions seemed to help and I even went as far as uninstalling Word and reinstalling it again, but absoutely nothing changed.

I don't know what this implies but any help will be very much appreciated.

Regards,
David.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, Tick. In Word, click on Tools | Autocorrect Options | Autoformat As You Type tab | check the "Internet and network paths as hyperlinks" box.

 

[Pikachu]

That's what Word suggested and it doesn't have any effect at all.

 

[Pikachu]

That's what world itself suggested and it didn't have any effect on the problem.

 

[Gary Smith]

The other day Word started formatting my hyperlinks in a really odd

fashion and also refuses to display them as active links.

If I paste an address in directly from the address bar of Interent

Explorer it just ends up as plain text, but if I copy and paste a
hyperlink it ends up like this:

{ HYPERLINK "http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040710/325/exq4s.html" }

In Word, go to Tools | Options | View tab and uncheck "Field codes".

 

[Pikachu]

That's done it! Thank you so much for your help!

 

[Gary Smith]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad it helped.

That's done it! Thank you so much for your help!


"Gary Smith" wrote:

 

[Azcomputertutor]

THANK You Gary, actually years later your post is still helping folks. Lindy