Hyperlinks in Firefox...

[TB]

I have spent all evening reading old posts regarding the problems with links
in Firefox. Thanks to the contributors, especially DavidF, I figured out
that my problem was grouping. Once I ungrouped they worked. I use IE, but
simply wanted cross-browser capability. The one issue I still have, which
took hours to figure out, is that the bottom nav bar was also considered to
be grouped. But once I ungrouped it, it permanently disabled the nav bar
wizard and made it strictly text. I tried to "regroup" for the purpose of
editing, after which I'd ungroup again, but I can't. And when I was given
the option to, the wizard is still gone. Is there a way to use the nav
wizard once it's disabled? Help!!

 

[DavidF]

The wizard will automatically update the vertical navbar, and you can
manually edit the bottom navbar if you want after you ungroup it from the
navbar wizard. You can also group the bottom navbar back to the vertical
navbar and the navbar wizard. Try this first.

Drag a copy of your bottom navbar off the first page into the scratch area
for a just-in-case text copy.

Go to Format > Web Site Options. You will see that you have the Vertical and
Bottom selected under Navigation bar. Select Vertical only. Then go to each
page of your publication and delete the old bottom navbar. Go back to page
one and again select Vertical and Bottom. Go to Insert > Navbar > Existing
and you should have the option of inserting either a vertical or a bottom
navbar. After inserting the bottom navbar on the first page, go to each
other page in your publication and insert the bottom navbar just as you did
on the first page.

If all goes well now when you add a page to your publication, you will have
the option of adding a navbar to that page and updating the whole
publication and both navbars...the wizard should work.

In the future I would recommend that you do not ungroup the bottom navbar
until you have decided that you have added all the pages you plan on using
in your site.

DavidF

 

[TB]

Thanks Dave. I apologize for not being on line this year. Busy weekend.
But I just tried one of your suggestions. I think I failed to mention that
this is Publisher 2007. I don't see the nav bars under web site options.
However, after playing with it for a while, it appears that my only option
will be to ungroup, publish, the re-create the bottom nav bar. I really only
need to do that when adding pages so there will be a bar on the new page
because it seems to work after ungrouping. So, as per your suggestion, it
will pay to make sure I'm done. I never really use Firefox, so I just
checked a couple of other sites I've had out there for a while and found that
their bottom bars don't work either. But there are way too many pages to
worry about that now.

 

[DavidF]

Thank you for reposting within this thread. It is so much easier for others
to follow, and for me.

I did work out the fix in Pub 2003, and as you say Pub 2007 does seem to
work a bit different. Sorry about that.

The fix is easier than what I suggested last time. Skip the first part. Just
go to Insert > Navigation bar and confirm that you get the option of new or
existing...and that in existing that you have both a Main and a Bottom
navbar. If you do, then just delete each bottom navbar on each page, and
insert > navigation bar > existing > bottom navbar on each page. That seems
to regroup the bottom navbar with the main navbar, and the wizard does work.
It appears that you can do both operations on a page before moving to the
next page, so even if you thought you were finished with a site and
ungrouped the bottom navbar so it would work in FF, it shouldn't take that
long to insert a new/existing bottom navbar that is grouped to the wizard
and the main navbar.

Good luck.

DavidF

 

[TB]

This works and is the best option. So, as always, Thanks for the help!!

 

[DavidF]

Glad to help and that it worked out for you. I learned something too, about
another one of the differences in Pub 2003 and 2007.

DavidF