Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Closing Documents after a Hyperlink.
When Tom hyperlinks from one Word document to another, he would like the previous document to close automatically. He notes that if he has several documents hyperlinking to several others, he can end up with quite a few Word documents open at the same time.
Believe it or not, this behavior is built into Word and, unfortunately cannot be changed. You could, however, bypass hyperlinks all together and create some sort of macro or macro button to open the new document and close the old one. The ways in which you would implement such a workaround will depend on the names and locations of the documents you want to access.
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2024-12-20 07:38:14
jamies
got a hyperlink to an excel file, or a WinWord document in a WinWord document -
click to open that file -
( set to read only and on a server - )
great - you can read, copy and print it
So -
Changed it, use SaveAs to save the changed version
Well the displayed text on the link does not change,
but the link is now pointing to the newly created version !
You just lost the link to the original !
And you will get the newly created version presented every time you use that link !
even though the link is shown on the document as being the original file !
2013-05-21 07:01:44
nic
Hi I would like docs to close in the same way but from Excel 2010. Can this be done?
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