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Add Me To Your Favourites

eb98jdb — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:31:27 -0800

I need to send a link in an email which on the other end will create a favourite in in the recipients IE. I've googled around this and found lots of resources on adding a favourite from a website but they all seem to assume the recipient is on the right page already. I'm using Outlook 2007 if it's relevant. (Bit dull as a question I know but I've been wrestling with this all morning)

I'll take you there!

ocherdraco — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:18:08 -0800

Is there a way to link to a particular spot on a webpage if that webpage doesn't have built in anchors? I want to link to a particular item in a very long list on a page of html (ENGL 288-03 on this page of course listings). Is there a way to create a link that will take someone directly there?

Word to PDF conversion - where'd my links go?

operating thetan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:55:51 -0800

How can I keep the embedded links in my Word doc when I convert to PDF? (MacOSX solutions preferred, though not required.) I have a bundle of Word docs with embedded hyperlinks that I need to convert to PDF, and I need to have those links active. In converting to PDF, (save as PDF or print to PDF in Word) the links go away. I have a copy of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - I know how to physically add all the links, and how to create web links from URLs in text. Unfortunately it's time consuming to add all the links to all the documents in Acrobat, and the "create web links" batch function in Acrobat 5.0 only works for addresses in http format.
Are there any workarounds? Can I do this in a scalable, batch-friendly way? Software I can use - bonus points for free? I am running MacOSX Leopard, with Word 2008 though I have Word 2004 at home. Windows solutions appreciated too, we have PCs at work. Thanks in advance!

Stumped by VBA-ising an array formula in Excel

Mokusatsu — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:20:18 -0800

How to do a VBA version of the following array formula in Excel? The following array formula (entered with ctrl,shift,enter) will produce the string 'Bank statement'!H842, which is the name of a cell I would like to be able to manipulate via VBA: {="'Bank statement'!H"&MATCH(C1&D$39,'Bank statement'!A:A&'Bank statement'!C:C,0)} It creates a string out of the values in the cells C1 and D$39 and looks those up in an array made out of the A and C columns of the sheet 'Bank statement'.

Its function is to find the row of a payment from a certain payer on a certain day, and then return the address of the cell in column H of that row.

i.e. it will find the payment from Joe Bloggs on the 15/3/2008 for example, and return the address of the cell in column H on the row that payment appears.

This formula will put the address of that cell, which I'd like to use as a range variable in VBA.

I'm completely stumped by trying to make it work though. I've tried for a day or two to do it, asked every Excel VBA related usenet and Yahoo group and not gotten a solution. I'm more confident in MeFi though. :)

A macro I can run from a button click will suffice for now, but if I could have my every wish granted I'd also like to be able to make a pivot table hyperlink-clickable, so I could click on any entry in that pivot table (pivot table consists of payments arranged by date and payer) and navigate to that payment.

How to link to the contents of another link?

mathis23 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:24:55 -0800

Is there a way for a hyperlink to simply 'parrot' whatever a second hyperlink might be pointing toward? The overly simplified version of my situation would go something like this:

I have set up LinkA on Page1 to point toward a given file. I also need LinkB on Page2 to point toward this same file. The file however, and it's name, will change quite often.

Is there a way to set up LinkB to simply mimic/mirror/imitate whatever LinkA is pointing toward, so that all I ever need to do is to update the properties of LinkA?

Formatting hyperlinks

sarahkeebs — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:26:22 -0800

When word processing, how do I make long URLs break at the end of a line (and continue on the next, rather than starting a new line) while maintaining the hyperlink? When inserting long URLs into Word documents, they always get shunted to the next line as if they were a very long word. This is hideous, especially in footnotes. There are work-arounds, but they aren't satisfactory for the following reasons:
- I can insert a space into the URL, but that breaks the hyperlink
- I can do the above, and manually hyperlink the two "words," but that makes the URL useless if someone copies-and-pastes it (yes they can erase the space, but single spaces in long URLs are difficult to see)

I can't believe there's not a way to format these so the URL goes to the end of the line it starts on and continues at the beginning of the next line. However, neither Google nor Microsoft's help pages offer any suggestions. Halp!

(I'm using various versions of MS Word, if it makes a difference.)

how do I make text a link?

6am — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:15:13 -0800

How do I make a web address written in text automatically convert into a clickable hyperlink in firefox?

Can I make different categories of link text on a web page show as "unvisited" after different intervals?

lorimer — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:44:00 -0800

With Javascript, CSS or anything else, can I make different categories of link text on the same web page behave differently? Specifically, if I wanted to make a page listing some links I need to visit daily, some I need to visit weekly and some I need to visit monthly -- could I make each category of link text change from "visited" color back to "unvisited" color after the appropriate number of days? Or if this can't be done, how would you solve this need (in a visual way, rather than just "keep a list manually of when you visit each")?

How do you say hotlink in Hindi or service provider in Swedish?

Mr. Gunn — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:29:28 -0800

How does one say hotlink, download/save, and hosting provider in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Hindi? I'm preparing a graphic to redirect hotlinkers to via .htaccess, and, instead of the universal language of an offensive image, I thought I would use something a little more polite. I would like to say, "Please do not (hyperlink/hotlink) to this (image/graphic). Please (save/download/copy) the (image/graphic) to your own hosting provider."

The problem is that you can't literally translate link or host, because they don't use the same concepts as in english. For example, the french word for for link, lien, isn't used to refer to the things you click on to navigate web pages. I saw "liason chaude" used on a canadian page, but my french isn't that good and I want to make sure I'm not asking people to refrain from steamy sexual relations with my images.

I could just use the literal string "hyperlink" or "hotlink" and would probably accomplish 99% of what I'm trying to do, but I figured since I'm trying to be all culturally sensitive and polite and stuff, I might as well at least attempt to do it right.

I'd like to do the 5-7 languages most commonly found on the net, and to have a good spread of alphabets, too. I'm guessing a good selection would be (I don't know in what order)Swedish, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and maybe Hindi, but if someone has actually done the research on which ones are best to cover, I'll use those.

Hyperlinks to (not in) a .pdf document.

apocry_phil — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:37:15 -0800

Please tell me how to create quick emailable hyperlinks to .pdf documents on a network, so that a group of users can share the documents without clogging inboxes with attachments. For Microsoft Word or Excel documents, emailing a hyperlink is easy. The Web Toolbar displays the entire document address, which I can copy and paste into an email. Instant hyperlink. As far as I can tell, there is no similar mechanism in Adobe Reader.

I've tried: 1) creating a hyperlink to the .pdf in Word, then pasting the link into an email, 2) typing out the address to create the hyperlink from scratch, and 3) copying the folder location out of Windows Explorer and adding on the file name. These methods are workable, but time consuming.

If it matters, we're using Adobe Reader 6.0 and Windows 2000/2003.

Thanks for any help.

anchor tags and php

grumblebee — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:12:29 -0800

I'm having trouble getting anchor tags working in a php-generated page. Everything is php-generated (no hard-coded HTML). Inside each div, the php generates this code:

[a href="676"]

And that seems to be working fine.

Trouble is, I have other links on the page that link to these anchors and also send querystring vars, i.e.

[a href="page.php?x=1&y=2&z=3#676"]blah[/a]

Here's the exact code that's generating the hyperink:

print "[a href=\"index.php?rank={$rplus}&id={$row['id']}{$params}#{$row['id']}\"](+1)[/a]";

The vars are all references to stuff pulled from the db.

Everything seems to be working fine, except the page isn't scrolling to the anchor.

If it helps, the page is here (sorry about the self-link). The links are for the ranking system. (I know I could rank with AJAX. This is just meant to be a quick fix -- let you rank by resubmitting the page and then return you to where you were.) I thought this would take me two minutes to implement, but an hour and many failed google-searches later it's still not working.

Add "http://" Prefix to a List of Domains Formatted in Plain Text :: How Please?

Jhaus — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:05:50 -0800

Hi, hoping some MS Excel or HTML wizards can help me out with this. The goal is as follows; format a list of domain names so I can publish them on a webpage with hyperlinks to their individual addresses (currently they are all in Excel with each domain occupying a single cell in a single row; they are currently formatted like this: "domain.com"). There are just to many to go through and add this to each one. I'm thinking that one of these two solutions might work (just can't figure out how to do it!):
1) Use some formula in MS Excel to add the "http://" to each of the cells with a domain. Then just copy and paste into my HTML editor.

OR

2) Use some sort of code directly in the HTML editor to change "domain.com" into hyperlinked text.

This link came close, but just missed. Thanks so much for any help you might provide! Cheers!

How do I stop Excel from turning email addresses into hyperlinks?

anastasiav — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:23:44 -0800

StupidQuestionFilter:
Microsoft Excel 2000 v 9.0 - is there some way to stop excel from automatically turning email addresses into hyperlinks? Not just turning off the 'blue and underlined' format but actually not making them links. I've done it before in other versions of excel but I can't find a way to do it in this version. Thanks!