The FollowHyperlink method opens the document or Web page specified by a hyperlink address.
Syntax
[application.]FollowHyperlink address, [subaddress], [newwindow], [addhistory], [extrainfo], [method], [headerinfo]
The FollowHyperlink method has the following arguments.
| Argument | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| application | The Application object. | |
| address | A string expression that evaluates to a valid hyperlink address. | |
| subaddress | A string expression that evaluates to a named location in the document specified by the address argument. The default is a zero-length string (" "). | |
| newwindow | A Boolean value where True (–1) opens the document in a new window and False (0) opens the document in the current window. The default is False. | |
| addhistory | A Boolean value where True adds the hyperlink to the History folder and False doesn't add the hyperlink to the History folder. The default is True. | |
| extrainfo | A string or an array of Byte data that specifies additional information for navigating to a hyperlink. For example, this argument may be used to specify a search parameter for an .asp or .idc file. In your Web browser, the extrainfo argument may appear after the hyperlink address, separated from the address by a question mark (?). You don't need to include the question mark when you specify the extrainfo argument. | |
| method | An Integer value that specifies how the extrainfo argument is attached. The method argument may be one of the following intrinsic constants. | |
| Constant | Description | |
| msoMethodGet | The extrainfo argument is appended to the hyperlink address and can only be a string. This value is passed by default. | |
| msoMethodPost | The extrainfo argument is posted, either as a string or as an array of type Byte. | |
| headerinfo | A string that specifies header information. By default the headerinfo argument is a zero-length string. | |
Remarks
By using the FollowHyperlink method, you can follow a hyperlink that doesn't exist in a control. This hyperlink may be supplied by you or by the user. For example, you can prompt a user to enter a hyperlink address in a dialog box, then use the FollowHyperlink method to follow that hyperlink.
You can use the extrainfo and method arguments to supply additional information when navigating to a hyperlink. For example, you can supply parameters to a search engine. To search the Yahoo site for information on Microsoft, you might call the FollowHyperlink method as follows:
Application.FollowHyperlink "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search", _
, , , "p=Microsoft", msoMethodGetYou can use the Follow method to follow a hyperlink associated with a control.