my guess is that you assume I have much more knowledge than I do re these products. I'm not a power user, just a dweeb trying to make something happen. when I posted the question some suggested threads appeared saying that in Word hyperlinks cannot be made to what Word treats as moving/active objects, i.e., references to objects that evolve with a document can't be made via hyperlink--a dumb protocol. is this about right?

if so, I need to revisit some ancient docs and try to figure how they (I at the time) managed it.

I feel that, educated and experienced in the use of oars, I am behind in the age of steam.

thanks