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Finding hyperlinks in Word documents

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by rwyatt365 Sep 17, 2002 last reply Jan 8, 2003

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Is there a programmatic way to determine if an Office document (specifically Word) contains hyperlinks? It's not important what the links are to, just whether there ARE any links in a document (or group of documents).

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by dklippert Sep 17, 2002

Sub CountHyper()

With ActiveDocument
Dim HyperMem As Hyperlink
Dim HyperCount As Integer
For Each HyperMem In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
HyperCount = HyperCount + 1
Next HyperMem
End With
MsgBox HyperCount & " Hyperlinks"

End Sub

by rwyatt365 Oct 22, 2002

I need something that can identify hyperlinks that is "external" to Word. I don't want to have to open the document to find the links.

by kees.valkenswaard Sep 17, 2002

How about Edit, Go to ?., Go to: Field, with fieldname Hyperlink.
Good luck

by rwyatt365 Oct 22, 2002

I need something that can identify hyperlinks that is "external" to Word. I don't want to have to open the document to find the links.

by godshots Sep 17, 2002

Turn on your view field codes option:
Go to TOOLS, OPTIONS, select the VIEW tab and then select view codes. I also have my codes shaded so they are easier to view.

by rwyatt365 Oct 22, 2002

I need something that can identify hyperlinks that is "external" to Word. I don't want to have to open the document to find the links.

by aisling Sep 17, 2002

Using the Edit; Find dialog, click on More, then format, style, Hyperlink, OK, and click find next.

by rwyatt365 Oct 22, 2002

I need something that can identify hyperlinks that is "external" to Word. I don't want to have to open the document to find the links.

by rwyatt365 Sep 18, 2002

Thanks for the responses, but I'm looking for something "external" to the document (i.e. an application that would examine documents in a directory and tell me which one's contain hyperlinks). I don't want to have to open the document to determine whether it contains links.

by gigelul Sep 19, 2002

Use find using "http:" or "www." in "containing text" field.

by rwyatt365 Oct 22, 2002

I need something that can identify hyperlinks that is "external" to Word. I don't want to have to open the document to find the links.

by gigelul Oct 22, 2002

In my previous answer I tell you about find options from Windows explorer.

by rwyatt365 Nov 13, 2002

This looks for linked web pages. I'm looking for linked Office documents (Word & Excel documents mostly). Thanks anyway.

by rwyatt365 Jan 8, 2003

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