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Subject:Re: Designing hypertext for both online and print From:"Andrea Brundt" <andrea_w_brundt -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:53:25 -0500
Hi Chuck!
You could use a VBA macro in the Word doc that would do much of the
find-and-replace work for you. For example, here's some logic that would
convert some of your links.
<pseudo-code>
for each instance of text where character style = hyperlink
for each range of text where paragraph style is a heading
if the hyperlink = the heading then
replace the hyperlink with "See [cross-reference to the heading] on
page [cross reference to the heading's page number]."
end if
next
end with
</pseudo-code>
Other thoughts:
1. If you code this, don't actually use a for...next loop. Use the Find and
Replace objects -- it's more efficient, and has methods designed to do what
you want!
2. This won't work if the hyperlink doesn't match a heading. As a
workaround, you could add print-only conditional text with the actual
heading text after each link -- then your code would work.
3. From an information design perspective, there are convincing arguments
against using inline hyperlinks. These arguments, combined with all the
manual work that they create for you, might justify the cost of a project to
remove them from your documentation.
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