Sorry for my English (sic!)



I'm making a special dictionary with Word.
I have made a big Audio file recording the words of the dictionary.
Now I would like to make an Hipertextual link for every word to his sound in the big Audio file.
Is it possible?
And how can I do this?

Tank you very much

I suspect you would need to create a separate file for each element you want to link to. I doubt that Word hyperlinks support opening sound files at a particular location.

With Word HYPERLINK fields, the following field switches can be used:
\l Specifies a location in the file, such as a bookmark, to which the hyperlink will jump.
\m Appends coordinates to a hyperlink for a server-side image map (server-side image map: A graphic containing sensitive regions, or "hot spots," that a user can click to follow a hyperlink. A server-side image map requires a script on a Web server that identifies the sensitive regions and their corresponding hyperlinks).
\n Causes the destination site to open in a new window.
\o Specifies the ScreenTip text for the hyperlink.
\t Specifies the target that the link should be redirected into. Use this switch to link from a frames page to a page that you want to appear outside of the frames page.
\s Represents the "arblocation" XML parameter used internally by Word to track locations that have no bookmark targets in the document concerned, such as when using Word's 'Hyperlink Here' feature. The \s switch is followed by six comma-delimited parameters, of which the first three might be relevant for you-
1. This parameter's value (1) represents the document body, 2 a header or footer, 3 a footnote, 6 an endnote, and 7 a comment.
2. This parameter's value (12204) represents the offset to the first referenced character (byte) in the element specified by the first parameter.
3. This parameter's value (12210) represents the offset to the last referenced character (byte) in the element specified by the first parameter.
The resulting hyperlink field for a target sound file might look like:
{HYPERLINK file:///C:\\Users\\Username\\sounds.mp3 \s "1,12204,12210,,,"}
Of course, using those offset values would require you knowing which bytes (not just the position in terms of time) represent the sounds you're interested in.

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Paul Edstein
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Interesting. I would be interested if someone can do this. I do not think it is possible, in Word, to play sound files at a given point in time. I have never tried to use the byte point parameter macropods suggests be used. I have NO idea how I could get a byte level accuracy to pinpoint a given start in time. I have been doing fairly serious sound recording for 40 years and I do not know how I could do this.

I will keep an eye on this, but I think you will have to break up your large sound file into lots of small ones. That will likely be a major pain.

I am not even sure how to translate a byte value in a sound file to a TIME value in that file. At least with any confidence of its accuracy.

One could start by noting how far into the file the sound starts & ends and use that to estimate the byte offsets based on the file size. Pretty hit & miss, though, and quite a bit of trial & error most likely would be required before the correct offsets could be located.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]