Hyperlinks quit working

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From: Caesar (Caesar_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:09:01 -0800

I use Word 2003. In some of my documents, I like to convert small blocks of
text (e.g., names)to hyperlinks. Ctrl + Click launches MS-Office Picture
Manager with the appropriate photo. At least, that's what's supposed to
happen. This technique has worked for me for years, but lately I'm having
problems. When I click on the hyperlink, Picture Manager launches sure
enough, but all I see are icons for a hodge-podge collection of files: a
couple of Word documents, an Excel file, a .pdf document...but not a single
photograph or any other graphic.

I thought perhaps my document had become corrupt. I copied all the text in
the suspect document and pasted it into a new blank document. At that point,
the hyperlinks worked! But the next time I opened that new document, I
encountered the same old problem.

Next I started another new document and created several hyperlinks. Again,
the links worked; but when I closed and reopened that document, the problem
recurred. What's going on, and how can I fix it?

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