Re: https hyperlink does not save properly

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Thanks for your response, John. I appreciate your many helpful
contributions to this group. I'm not sure, however, that I've made my
question clear.

I help a friend maintain her not-for-profit organization's Web site. If
I were doing it for myself I would create and maintain the HTML using
BBEdit but she inherited a site populated by documents created via
Word's Save As Web Page option. The state of her technical evolution is
such that using Word to create & maintain Web pages is her only viable
option.

She is using Word 2003 for Windows. When I need to use my own Word 2004
for Mac to handle some tricky bits for her there is usually no problem.
I have synschonized my template and styles with hers. I noticed,
however, that an https link to a meeting registration site which she
had embedded in a document, and functioned properly on the Web site,
got clobbered as soon as I saved the document using Word for Mac. An
https link to a simple domain results in the null entry "" in the HTML
code. A longer https link (with more than two elements separated by
slashes) results in "file://localhost/registration".

I am willing to accept this as a bug in the Mac version but, since an
https link functions properly in a Web page generated by Word for
Windows, I don't think it's acccurate to say that "HTTPS is not a
supported protocol in Word."

My workaround, by the way, was simply to use BBEdit to edit the HTML
document and correct the link.

RRR

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Sorry: No fix. HTTPS is not a supported protocol in Word, you need a
browser for that.

Cheers


On 29/3/06 7:19 AM, in article
1143580770.511418.303340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "rrrahl@xxxxxxxxx"
<rrrahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac Version 11.2 (060202) on a 1.5
GHz Power PC G4 17" PowerBook running Mac OS X Version 10.3.9.

When I create a hyperlink in a Word document saved as a Web Page using
https instead of http as the beginning of the URL the link is not saved
properly. Viewing the HTML source reveals that the content of the HREF
tag is null.

I have tried starting with a newly-created, unmodified Normal template
but the result is the same.

Can anyone replicate this? More importantly, does anyone have a fix?

Thanks, Robert


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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

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