Re: Navigation links not working

You can link to a regular Word .doc as long as you also upload it to your
website. It will open in Word in the browser if the viewer has Word
installed on their machine (IIRC)...and hyperlinks within the Word doc
"should" work as long as they are absolute url's.



"deech" <deech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| OK, I've just read this answer also. I am now getting the meassage that I
| should not mix Word html files. However, searching thru these questions a
few
| days ago, I read answers about linking to external sites (eg Word) being
| possible as long as the Word doc is also uploaded to the server.
|
| Is this a no no, or is this OK as long as the Word file is not saved as a
| Webpage format.....e.g can I upload a normal Word doc?, can I link to this
| normal doc?, and is this OK?....will links created on this Word doc still
| work?
|
|
|
|
| "DavidF" wrote:
|
| > Use Word to edit the text boxes in your Publisher document, not Web Page
| > Preview. Select a text box > Edit > Edit Story in Microsoft Word . Make
your
| > changes in Word then File > Update, and your Publisher document will be
| > updated and you can close Word. Produce all your HTML files from
Publisher.
| > As Rob said, don't try to mix them.
| >
| > DavidF
| >
| > "deech" <deech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:F2DD3A55-D774-436D-AAD1-920C568BC75C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > > I'm building a site. When I do the Web Page Preview, it allows me to
"Edit
| > > with MS Office Word" in the "File" menu. This is great as it allows me
do
| > > "Borders and Shading" to text as I am wishing, and it also retains the
| > > navigation bar.
| > >
| > > I am able to save these changes as an html file on my computer,
however
| > > there is no change to the original Publisher file. I think that I have
| > > worked
| > > out that I need to create a link from my publisher file to this new
html
| > > file
| > > (which I have saved in my documents), and this link works great to my
MS
| > > Word
| > > altered html page.
| > >
| > > The problem is that the navigation bar on the MS Word html page does
not
| > > link back to the original publisher file. I have tried publishing my
| > > website
| > > to my hard drive, which has transformed the pages into html format and
| > > given
| > > them index files to follow. I then went back to my MS Word html
document,
| > > and
| > > made each navigation bar button link to these new index files, however
| > > this
| > > has made no difference when actually looking at the website.
| > >
| > > I manually created links in the navigation bar of the MS Word html
| > > document
| > > to each index file which looked like this:
| > > ../../../../My%20Documents/testwebpage/index_files/Page353.htm
| > >
| > > However when actually looking at the website and hitting the same
| > > navigation
| > > bar it directs me to this (and says the page cannot be displayed):
| > > C:\My Documents\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
| > >
Files\Content.MSO\PubWebPagePreview\pub3916.188\index_files\Page353.htm
| > >
| > > What am I doing wrong? I am just testing the links before it goes to
the
| > > web, however I realize that the links will also need to be changed to
the
| > > correct web addresses in the future
| > >
| > > Thanks Deech
| > >
| >
| >
| >


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