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Hyperlink style won't accept font color or underlining
I would like to define the Hyperlink style to be blue and underlined. I selected one of the existing hyperlinks in my document and changed the font color or made it underlined. I did that with field codes exposed so I made sure to get the field characters ({}). It looks good.
But if I then select the hyperlink, open the Styles dialog, right-click on the Hyperlink entry, and select "Update Hyperlink to match selection", it goes back to black and not underlined. What am I doing wrong? |
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What happens if you simply add a hyperlink to a new document (e.g. this page's web addrss) then press the spacebar? The default hyperlink Style is blue and underlined, so you shouldn't have to mess with it.
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In a new document, the hyperlink is just as I want it. I think what happened was that some time ago I was fooling around with trying to make it also italic and I was also fooling around trying to make the hyperlinks in the Table of Contents also blue and underlined. Somehow, I must have gotten it screwed up. How do I restore just that one style? I tried the Organizer under Document Templates, but I can't find the Hyperlink style to copy over. |
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Use the Styles Pane (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S) and set display of styles to all styles. Right-click on the Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink Styles to modify them.
Usually followed hyperlink will have a different color than an unfollowed hyperlink. My preference in Word (since I am preparing documents for printing) is to actually not have it underlined or differently colored. That makes for a document that is easier to read and where the hyperlinks which have underscores or blank spaces are easier to actually copy from the printed document. |
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] Last edited by Charles Kenyon; 02-15-2017 at 07:17 AM. Reason: Added hyperlink to discussion of Organizer |
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In the Developer tab, if I click on Document Template, I get the Templates and Add-ins dialog. In the Document template field, it says "Normal". Quote:
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I don't understand why that's all you'd see. Normal.dotm ordinarily has ~200-250 Styles.
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If the Normal template hasn't been customized (or, more specifically, if its styles haven't been customized) it isn't unusual for Word to display only a few styles in the Organizer.
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Is there any way to get it to display all of its styles, which would, it seems to me, be the default? |
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In a new document, if I enter a URL and press space, I get a hyperlink formatted as blue and underlined, just as you say. But if I enter a cross-reference to, say, a heading within the document, I get normal text formatting, except for the field shading, which I have set to "Always". If I move the cursor over the URL, the style field says "Hyperlink". But if I move it over the cross-reference, it says "Normal". So the hyperlink style appears to be fine, but somehow I have managed to change the style that is associated with cross-references. So how to I fix that? |
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The default is NOT to display all styles in the Organizer dialog box. For a Normal template with factory default settings, this is particularly apparent, since there is only a minimum of styles available in the dialog box. (The attached image was created for a Word session running in Safe mode, which reverts all Word settings to their defaults.)
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What you can do is post feedback on this behavior. Go to the Word section in the Uservoice forum at http://word.uservoice.com.
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By default, cross-references adopt the formatting of the paragraph into which they're inserted. Hyperlinks, on the other hand, ordinarily adopt the hyperlink Style. Just as you can insert a cross-reference to a heading, bookmark, etc., you can do the same with hyperlinks. That will get you the hyperlink formatting; the downside is that the hyperlink display text doesn't auto-update to reflect changes in whatever it's linked to. The alternative is to apply the hyperlink Style to your cross-references, so they look like hyperlinks (they still won't change colour when followed, though).
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Is there any way to get Word to treat cross-references as hyperlinks or at least format them that way?? |
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Not automatically. If that's what you really want, you should consider using hyperlinks; not cross-references. That said, a Word macro could be used to reformat your cross-references to look like hyperlinks. Even then, however, they wouldn't change colour when clicked.
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