WD97: Clicking UNC Hyperlink to HTML File Starts Web Browser

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you click a universal naming convention (UNC) HTML hyperlink in a Word document, the linked file is opened in your Web Browser instead of in Word. For example, if you click the following UNC link in a Word document

\\MyMachine\MyShare\MyFile.html

CAUSE

The file containing the UNC hyperlink is in Word document format.

WORKAROUND

To use Word to browse an HTML hyperlink, the document containing the hyperlink must be saved in HTML format.

To save a Word document in HTML format, use the following steps:

1. Open the document containing the HTML hyperlinks.



2. On the File menu, click Save As HTML.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 8.0

Keywords : kbother kbtool word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto