Word hyperlink problem

[Susan]

Until yesterday my hyperlinks in Word 2003 functioned perfectly as did those in Office Access 2003. Now, for example, when I hover above a hyperlink in Word, I get the message "CTRL + click to follow link" as usual, but when I click, the link changes color and nothing happens.



I have an Access table of book titles containing a column of URLs. The Data Type of this column is Hyperlink and until yesterday, clicking on the URL took me to the site of the book - now nothing happens.

Since the above are both Microsoft products, I assume that the problems are related. I have made no changes whatsoever, at least knowingly, to my data.

I would greatly appreciate anyone's advice. Thank you.