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There's a blue+underlined Hyperlink character style in the template.
Regular hyperlinks get formatted blue+underlined. Cross-reference
hyperlinks don't. If I apply the Hyperlink style to regular text, it's
formatted blue+underlined. If I apply it to a cross-reference, there's
no effect.
Seems like a bug to me.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
> Robert Lauriston wrote:
>
>> How is a user supposed to know there's a hyperlink there without the
>> color cue? Seems like a bug to me.
>>
>> I just put in a requisition for FrameMaker and downloaded a 30-day
>> trial so I can get my work done, but I'm still curious if there's some
>> way to bludgeon Word into behaving correctly.
>
> Maybe I missed something earlier. Did you define a character style that
> applies the formatting you want (blue and underline, or whatever) and
> apply that style to the field?
>
> It's the same process you use in FM for hyperlinks. (FM has the
> advantage in cross-references because you can include the character tag
> in the x-ref format definition instead of adding it manually.)
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> 303-223-5111
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