broken display of hyperlinks and page numbers

A few weeks ago, my Word application began misbehaving and I have not been
able to figure out how to fix the problem. In the past, when I typed in a
web address, such as www.google.com in a Word document, Word would display
the link in a blue color and underlined (I believe), and then if I clicked on
the link, it would launch a browser. Now, when I type in an address such as
www.google.com and hit return, the display reads

{HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com"}

and the browser autolaunch no longer works. This also effects other
references, such as page numbers. This is driving me crazy because it messes
up many of my documents. WHat is the fix for this? Many many thanksin
advance for help on this.

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Hollywude

Jay
Mon Dec 10 12:51:15 PST 2007

Press Alt+F9 to toggle between field codes (what you see now) and field
results.

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Jay Freedman
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hollywude wrote:
> A few weeks ago, my Word application began misbehaving and I have not
> been able to figure out how to fix the problem. In the past, when I
> typed in a web address, such as www.google.com in a Word document,
> Word would display the link in a blue color and underlined (I
> believe), and then if I clicked on the link, it would launch a
> browser. Now, when I type in an address such as www.google.com and
> hit return, the display reads
>
> {HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com"}
>
> and the browser autolaunch no longer works. This also effects other
> references, such as page numbers. This is driving me crazy because
> it messes up many of my documents. WHat is the fix for this? Many
> many thanksin advance for help on this.

hollywude
Mon Dec 10 12:59:02 PST 2007

OMG, that was so easy, thanks a million. I was all over the place trying to
figure out how to fix this on my own -- I thought I had trashed some
underlying display script or Normal.dot or something. Thanks!

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Hollywude


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> Press Alt+F9 to toggle between field codes (what you see now) and field
> results.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
> hollywude wrote:
> > A few weeks ago, my Word application began misbehaving and I have not
> > been able to figure out how to fix the problem. In the past, when I
> > typed in a web address, such as www.google.com in a Word document,
> > Word would display the link in a blue color and underlined (I
> > believe), and then if I clicked on the link, it would launch a
> > browser. Now, when I type in an address such as www.google.com and
> > hit return, the display reads
> >
> > {HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com"}
> >
> > and the browser autolaunch no longer works. This also effects other
> > references, such as page numbers. This is driving me crazy because
> > it messes up many of my documents. WHat is the fix for this? Many
> > many thanksin advance for help on this.
>
>
>