Microsoft KB Archive/168732

= WD97: Clicking UNC Hyperlink to HTML File Starts Web Browser =

Article ID: 168732

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q168732



SYMPTOMS
When you click a universal naming convention (UNC) HTML hyperlink in a Word document, the linked file is opened in your Web Browser instead of in Word. For example, if you click the following UNC link in a Word document

\\MyMachine\MyShare\MyFile.html

the MyFile.html file is opened in a Web browser.



CAUSE
The file containing the UNC hyperlink is in Word document format.



WORKAROUND
To use Word to browse an HTML hyperlink, the document containing the hyperlink must be saved in HTML format.

To save a Word document in HTML format, use the following steps:
 * 1) Open the document containing the HTML hyperlinks.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Save As HTML.



STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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