Address lost when I replace display text in URLs

[nmckenna]

Greetings Forum

I have been trying to troubleshoot this on my own for two days, trying various tricks I found online and finally gave up.

I am attempting to replace the display text of URLs in a Word document (see attachement 1.png, upper) from "http://dx.doi....." to "Full Text", while retaining the underlying link. I am using the following wild card string:

http?*^032

to select the text to be replaced (every link is followed by a paragraph mark).

It selects the entire hyperlink, but the replace operation removes the URL (see attachement 1.png, lower). I thought it might be because I was replacing with two separate words (Full Text), but the same thing happens when replacing with a single word.

No idea what to do at this point. Thanks for any insight the forum can offer.

nmk

[macropod]

You can't use Find/Replace for changing the display text of URLs - you need to edit the hyperlink's display text property. You could automate that with a macro such as:

Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Hlnk As Hyperlink
For Each Hlnk In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
  With Hlnk
    If InStr(.TextToDisplay, "http://dx.doi") > 0 Then
      .TextToDisplay = Split(.TextToDisplay, "http://dx.doi")(0) & "Full Text"
    End If
  End With
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html