"pointing finger hand" for URL's not showing up for picture links created in Word Web page

[Michelle]

A friend of mine is creating a webpage using MS Word's "save as
webpage" feature. This is to create a "favorites" site for K-5
students at our school.

She has 2 identical links to each website--one by clicking on the title
text (for older kids who have better reading abilities) and one by
clicking on a picture (for those students in Kindergarten and 1st
grade).

When they put the cursor on the text, the cursor changes to the
hand--this is what students have been taught to wait for before
clicking the mouse. However, when they place the cursor over the
picture, no hand appears. The link is active, you can click on the
picture and the page will open, just no hand.

This may sound like a silly thing to question, but when working with
young kids, this can be enough to cause confusion.

Why would the hand cursor appear for the text, but not for the picture?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Michelle,

Word was not meant to be a web editor even though you can create web pages
with it. The HTML that it makes can be a nightmare. It's useful if you
want to publish a Word document to the web and have the file retain all of
the characteristics of the original document, but that's about it.

However, if you post back with the URL to the web page in question, I should
be able to tell you how to get the "hand" to display over the icon.

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[Michelle]

The web page that she created isn't a public accessible site. She
created it and renamed it "favorites" and it over-rides the regular
favorites files on our in-school machines. The interesting thing is
that the hand shows up on all links when I do it on my Mac using Office
2004--at least when I "preview as web page".

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Michelle:

Which precise version of Word are we talking about here?

PC Word and Mac Word behave a bit differently in this regard.

However, the bottom line is that Word is a word-processor, NOT a web
browser. It's designed to do an entirely different job.

The fact that Word "can" open web pages is "interesting" and "useful", but
the only reason you would open a web page in Word is to edit it, not display
it. And when a web page is open in Word, you should NOT expect it to behave
like a web page, you should expect it to behave like editable text. Which
it is

I understand and appreciate that this may confuse young kids. But young
kids should perhaps not be being asked to use one of the most powerful text
editing platforms in the world It's a bit like teaching people to fly
in a Boeing 747: there are cheaper and more appropriate aircraft that will
do a much better job if you want to learn to fly

Cheers

The web page that she created isn't a public accessible site. She
created it and renamed it "favorites" and it over-rides the regular
favorites files on our in-school machines. The interesting thing is
that the hand shows up on all links when I do it on my Mac using Office
2004--at least when I "preview as web page".

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Technical Writer.
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[Michelle]

The teacher making this page is using Windows Word 2000.

I also think that I need to clarify a few things.

We're not using Word as the web browser--the kids never see this
"favorites" page in Word. We're simply using Word to create the page
that is then saved and opened on Internet Explorer. It's when it's
opened with IE that the text links are showing the pointing hand and
the picture links (to the SAME pages) are not. It's in IE, since it IS
a web browser that the students are used to waiting for the hand before
trying to click to go to the linked page.

Does that make sense?

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Ah: That's better. OK, you have no problem there.

The Hand icon will appear in IE when the combination of anchor and URL are
correctly coded.

In Word, flip into source code view and just have a look to see what's going
on. Chances are, the closing tag for the URL is appearing before the image
anchor tag. Move it "after" and everything will work

Cheers

The teacher making this page is using Windows Word 2000.

I also think that I need to clarify a few things.

We're not using Word as the web browser--the kids never see this
"favorites" page in Word. We're simply using Word to create the page
that is then saved and opened on Internet Explorer. It's when it's
opened with IE that the text links are showing the pointing hand and
the picture links (to the SAME pages) are not. It's in IE, since it IS
a web browser that the students are used to waiting for the hand before
trying to click to go to the linked page.

Does that make sense?

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410