I am having trouble with hyperlinks in a list. Each line item starts with a name which may of may not be hyperlinked, followed by certain genealogical data (birth, death, marriage, etc.). The first 17 names on my test file are OK. Four of the names are hyperlinked. Starting with name 18 things get mixed up. Name 18 has a hyperlink which works fine, but all of the following data is also hyperlinked to it. This is unintended and not a problem on the first 17 names. Name 19 is also hyperlinked, but is also hyperlinked to names (lines) 20-37.

Name 38 is hyperlinked OK, but the data following it is hyperlinked to name 19 as is name 39 and its data. Name 40 is hyperlinked to name 38 and its data is hyperlinked to name 19 and so on.

It appears that each next name and the data following is hyperlinked to the previous name that had a hyperlink no matter how many non-hyperlinked intervening names. The following data should not be hyperlinked to anything.

Everything was fine when the file was first generated and ultimately formatted to HTML for the web. Somehow it has been corrupted, probably when new names were updated.

I have remade the file twice. It seems to work fine for a while, but then goes haywire again.

I know this is not too clear, but any suggestions would be thoroughly appreciated. I have uploaded the test file. The master file is on the internet, and I'll provide the URL if requested.

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Hi midjack,

A brief investiagtion suggests you have mutliple hyperlinks, rather than a large block of text sharing the same hyperlink. You can break the unwanted links by selecting them and pressing Ctrl-Shift-F9.

PS: Your document is very poorly laid out. Instead of using space characters to manage the indenting, paragraph indents should be used (preferably based on appropriately-defined indent styles).

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks, Paul. That seems to work. Wonder why half of the data is OK, and the rest is corrupted. There never was any intent to have anything but the name hyperlinked. Everything has worked fine for years (since 2005), then suddenly became corrupted. To get rid of the extra hyperlinked data I have converted to text twice, copied to Word and added the hyperlinks then reformatted to HTML. But the extra hyperlinks seem to come back sooner of later.

You are right about the data being poorly laid out. It was a modified format directly from the program Family TreeMaker. I tried remaking it with Tabs, but still had the hyperlink problem. I may redo the whole thing using Tabs.

I notice that using Control Shift F9 also gets rid of the name hyperlink even though it is not highlighted. Hopefully when I restore the hyperlink it will only apply to the name.

FYI This data occurs as the last part an article at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~la...vierfamily.htm

Thanks again

Dick Sevier
Jackson, MS

Some of your data have more than just the name included in a single hyperlink. With 'Retta Brooks', for example, 'Retta' is in a separate hyperlink from 'Brooks', which includes a bunch of extraneous text. Unfortunately, you can't simply drag 'Brooks' onto the 'Retta' hyperlink. For those hyperlinks, you can use the 'Edit hyperlink' function to correct the display text.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks Macropod.

I think Retta Brooks was the trigger that started all this mess. I deleted the hyperlink for the entire paragraph and and added one hyperlink for Retta Brooks. The hyperlinked data following a hyperlinked name was never intended, and must have occurred when the name, Retta Brooks, contained a hyperlink for each of the two words.

Hopefully I can work my way to the end, correcting as I go, without too much trouble.

Thanks again

I spoke too soon. Everything looked OK until I saved it. Then it went right back to the old problem. However, the Retta Brooks line remained corrected.

In Word options - Web Options, I have unchecked "update links on save." According to something I read, that should have fixed it. Apparently not.

Well, I'm back to square one. unchecking "update links on save" may have prevented some of the unwanted hyperlinks, but it also prevented all pictures and diagrams from loading. I rechecked it and have the same hyperlink problem in that they look OK until saved; after which they all reappear.

I've renamed the master URL http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~la...ierfamily2.htm thinking I had fixed it. No such luck.