IA: Creating and Activating Hyperlinks to Other Applications

ID: Q130213

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to use Internet Assistant to create and use hyperlinks to other Microsoft applications.


MORE INFORMATION

To create a hyperlink, follow these steps:

  1. In a document based on the HTML.DOT template, select the text from which you want to create the link.


  2. From the Insert menu, choose Hyperlink.


  3. Choose the To Local Document tab.


  4. Select the file to which you want to link. (This file can be an MS Excel spreadsheet, a PowerPoint presentation, or a document created with any other application.)


  5. Choose OK.


  6. Switch to Browse Web view.


  7. Save the HTML document.


NOTE: It is recommended that you have an Internet browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) installed on your computer.

To use Internet Assistant to hyperlink to the object, do use either of the following methods.

Method 1: Follow these steps:
  1. In Browse Web view, activate the link by clicking it. This opens a document window with a packager icon.


  2. Use the right mouse button click the icon.

    The shortcut menu will appear.


  3. From this menu, choose Show <object name> to view the link or Edit <object name> to modify the linked document.


  4. When you are finished, close the object. You will be returned to the document window that contains the packager icon.


  5. Close the document. This will return you to the original HTML document that contains the hyperlink.


Method 2: You can use your Internet browser to view these types of hyperlinked documents. To do this, you will need to configure your Internet browser to use a Helper Application. For more information on how to configure a Helper Application, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q129553 How to Use Office Apps as Helper Applications in Your Browser
When creating a hyperlink to an Excel Spreadsheet Internet Assistant opens that Excel file in a new Word document and converts the spreadsheet into Word table. The hyperlink DOES NOT automatically use DDE to establish a dynamic data exchange (DDE) link with the spreadsheet created in Excel.

Word 6.0 comes with the Excel import converter XLBIFF.CNV for use with importing/converting Excel spreadsheets. References and pointers to this converter are found in the Win.ini in the sections [MS Text Converters] and [MSWord Text Converters]. If these references are commented out or removed then the hyperlink to the Excel Spreadsheet will be activated as stated in this article.

However, if you leave the WIN.INI with these items commented out when using Insert/Database or Get Data from Mail Merge, you will only get one converter option (Microsoft Excel Worksheet via Converter). You will not get the option, MS Excel Worksheet via DDE (which is default when converter is present in WIN.INI). When converter is commented out all Excel Worksheets will be converted to a Word Table when being inserted in Word.

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Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,1.0z,2.0,4.0,4.0c,4.2,4.3,5.0,5.0c,6.0a,6.0c
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Last Reviewed: April 28, 1999