Comments on: Using Hyperlinks in Word 2007 Documents

By: rltomkinson

rltomkinson — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:00:11 +0000

Setting “Followed Hyperlink” color the same as “Hyperlink”
1. Go to Page Layout tab.
2. Pick Colors in the Themes group.
3. At the bottom of the menu, click on “Create New Theme Colors”.
4. At the bottom, set the colors for “Hyperlink” and “Followed Hyperlink” as desired.
5. Click “Save”.
6. Click the Themes” button in the Themes group.
7. Click “Save Current Theme”.
8. If need be, click the Themes” button in the Themes group and set your new theme as the current theme.
9. Note: This will only work in files saved in MS Word 2007 and later.

By: Chris Cote

Chris Cote — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:42:38 +0000

I am having the same problem of having WORD 07 change the color of a hyperlink to purple after it is clicked on. How can this be changed? It doesn’t look like this question was answered. THANKS

By: irene

irene — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:10:35 +0000

I want to see on the document the address behind the hyperlinks (not just see it fleetingly by hovering, but that it shows on the document). Once upon a time it was easy to do by copy-pasting it into Wordpad. Not anymore! Now your only option is right click, edit hyperlink, copy and then back to the document, and paste. So laborious to do it when you have whole lists of links or e-mail addresses. And also, today I noticed that this doesn’t work anymore (I don’t get any hyperlink options in the right-click menu).
Now I saw the instructions to press CTRL+SHIFT and then F9. I tried it but it doesn’t work.
BTW, I have Word 2007 on Windows 7 and I’m an experienced user.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:27:28 +0000

How can I use Word 2007’s Save As PDF feature, (which is VERY cool for all of us who longed to create nice looking PDF’s, but never had any tools other than Adobe reader!)….. to create a REALLY nice pdf….. The kind with a “table of contents”, if you will, along the left-hand side.

I don’t want a TOC only at the top, or only links that mimic my Word bookmarks…I want one that’s frozen on the entire left side, always visible to reader. (in the resulting PDF)

By: Lita

Lita — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:06:17 +0000

Word has a kooky thing that it does with heading styles if you hard-return to create a page. It puts the code for the style at the end of the preceding page. This may be your answer, but I don’t know how to correct it other than spacing down (versus Ctrl-Enter) down to another page and then starting the heading style there.

By: Lita

Lita — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:20 +0000

Since you are staying within the same document and jumping around, I would suggest trying cross-reference to create links, instead of hyperlinks. These will point to a location even if it moves around in the document or changes names.

By: Linea

Linea — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:20:58 +0000

I have a long master document with many hyperlinks. About half of them don’t lead to the pages they’re supposed to; they stop at the bottom of the preceding page. Both my editor and I have recreated the hyperlinks to no avail. Can you help? Thanks!

By: Lainey

Lainey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:14:10 +0000

We have a very long document with hyperlinks to other parts of the document. This document is constantly being edited. Every time we add a new header before on of the existing headers that a hyperlink points to the hyperlink breaks. Is there a way to update hyperlink or get to to stay attached to a heading even when you add new sections?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:40:15 +0000

We created a document in Word 2007 that has a table of contents hyperlinked to different sections of the document. Once I click one of the links, the text turns purple and remains that way, even if I highlight it and try to change its color. Is there a way to keep hyperlinks in Word 07 from changing color when they are clicked? Thanks.