On Word 2003, this fails. The below might help anyone stuck on this and e.g. attempting a macro to fix seomhow

Using Edit Hyperlink https://i.imgur.com/F9q9Jyi.png I create a hyperlink to

FAIL New PDF Document #.pdf

I enable Field Codes, and see:

{HYPERLINK "FAIL%20New%20PDF%20Document%20" \l ".pdf"}



The address is incorrect. Help Field codes: Hyperlink field - Microsoft Support says:

Unsurprisingly an attempt to follow the link fails with:



I save as HTML, and get:

href="FAIL%20New%20PDF%20Document#.pdf">FAIL New PDF Document #.pdf</a>

Two more fails. Last space is missing. # is unencoded.

Patching to:

href="FAIL%20New%20PDF%20Document %23.pdf">FIX FAIL New PDF Document
#.pdf</a>

remedies on Firefox. On Chrome, I can't get /any/ local file link to open a
PDF locally, even having done Settings. I get just an empty tab titled
"Untitled".

Kindly don't start multiple threads on the same topic.

Thread closed.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]