Re: Hyperlinks

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Hey terse...I like your description...just call me verbose...or wordy for
short ;-).

But I will have you know that the answer to his original question was
written in 6 lines...not bad...I am getting better.

The problem came when I looked at his web directory and I could find no
succinct way to describe what he was doing...oh well. Short or
long...hopefully the posters will let us know if they need more
clarification.

DavidF


"Spike" <zero_spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David

JUMP IN, JUMP IN the water's fine ....
Thanks for the help. I usually start out with relative links (easier) but
you probably have a better solution with the absolute links. I can always
depend on Verbose David to bail out Terse Spike :)

Spike

"DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If I may jump in... I think it might be easier for you if you write an
'absolute link' to your pdf file. 'Relative links' can be confusing and
writing the full path to the files can make things more clear.

After you upload the subfolder 'downloads' to your root directory or root
folder and upload the 'kos_registration_form.pdf' file to the 'downloads'
folder, then the link to that file will be:

www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/downloads/kos_registration_form.pdf
or
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/downloads/kos_registration_form.pdf

I would also point out that when you go to your website via
'www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org' , you go to www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/index.htm .
Then when you click the 'About Us' link on your home page, it will take
you to http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/index_files/Page380.htm . In other
words it takes you to the 'index_files" folder on our host and finds the
'Page380.htm' file. Note that all your other pages are also in the
'index_files' folder. When you click any of the navbar buttons on your
default home page then it will take you to the file within the
index_files folder...it does not take you to the other subfolders in your
root directory. You do not need the other subfolders.

To explain further, here is a link to your 'Reflections_files" folder:
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/Reflections_files/
You will notice that you get a listing of the files in that folder
because there is not default .htm file. But now go to this link:
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/Reflections.htm Notice that it is the same
as http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/index.htm .

You can keep producing your web files as you want, but the reality is
that a viewer will stay within the files in the 'index_files' folder if
they arrive at your site via www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org ...because they will
start at www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/index.htm and all the links from that page
will point to the 'index_files' folder...not the other folders you have
created. That means that your 'Reflections' page is located here:
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/index_files/Page1201.htm and again at
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/Reflections_files/Page1201.htm not
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/Reflections.htm as you intended.

If you want custom file names, then go to your main Pub file. Go to the
'Reflections' page in your publication > Tools > Web page options and
under 'Publish to the web" in the 'File name' field type in 'Reflections'
without the quote. Now when you publish to the web and produce you new
web files, Publisher will call that page 'Reflections.htm' instead of
'Page1201.htm'. And the absolute link to that page will be
http://www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org/index_files/Reflections.htm . Do this for
each of your pages in your publication, but do not leave spaces. For the
About us page use either 'AboutUs.htm' or 'About_us.htm' and perhaps
avoid upper case altogether and just call the file 'aboutus.htm'. Just be
consistent.

I hope I haven't confused you further, but it was obvious that you needed
to understand how to write absolute links to your files and your web
pages, and that also meant that I had to discuss how you have organized
your web directory. You simply do not need all those other
subdirectories/subfolders nor are they really accomplishing what you
wanted them to accomplish. The good news is that now you know how to
write the link to the pdf file and any other pdf file that you put into
the 'downloads' folder. Clear as mud now? <g>

DavidF

"rjlump54" <rjlump54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Spike,

I read what you are saying, but I'm not so certain how to make it
happen.
I've created a folder (downloads) and put the
"kos_registration_form.pdf) in
it. Now when I make the link "downloads", what is to go in front of the
"downloads/kos_registration_form.pdf" in the address line, because right
now
it is in a folder on my "f" drive?

As I stated before, I am confused as to how things work now.

My website address is: www.bmbc-lugoffsc.org
The root folder is: BMBC Home3
My web page files are: index_files, About Us_files, Calendar_files,
Contact
Us_files, Gallery_files, Health_files, Ministrie_files, Products_files,
Reflections_files and the new folder - downloads

Each of the listed folders above have the web pages in them with all the
files/images for each.
For example: Page 380 is a HTML doc that opens the web page About Us
when
you click on it. So this is where I get really confused, because I
don't
know how to create a link to go to another web page or a doc.

I hope this makes sense to you.


"Spike" wrote:

To link text to a document
Highlight the text
Right click on the highlighted text
Select Hyperlink
In the address bar at the bottom of the window enter the location and
the
name of the document

Example: /downloads/my_document.pdf

The file my_documents.pdf is in the folder downloads in the root
directory
on the server

To create a link to other pages follow the same as above but instead of
entering an address select the icon on the left of the window "Place in
this
document" and select the page you wish to link to.

Spike



"rjlump54" <rjlump54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have upgraded to Publisher 2007 and am having a hard time wih the
hyperlinks. I've looked at the Help regarding this topic, and even
proceeded
to follow the instructions given, but the links don't work. I need
to
know
how to link text to documents and to create links to other pages in
the
site.






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