When I try to send someone a website address, such as:
www.cecilrocks.co (Note: phony address)
The link I send is no longer clean looking.
Instead, it looks something like this:
{HYPERLINK "http.cecilrocks…}
How can I resolve this? I don’t want the spelled-out HYPERLINK mumbojumbo
What exactly do you mean by “send someone a website address?” If all you’re doing is writing the URL in an email, then I would think the problem has to be on the receiving computer.
Either that, or your system is using some sort of nonstandard HTML or MIME markup, in which case turning that off should fix the problem.
Sorry for the confusion. I misspoke.
Let’s say I see a citation/link for an article on another website, such as I listed above. When I cut and paste this entire link on a Word document, instead of it pasting the link as originally shown, somehow it’s converted into the {HYPERLINK "http.cecilrocks…} format.
Aha!
I was about to write “does this only happen with MS Word”, when I noticed the curly braces around the string.
Try selecting the entire string including the curly braces and typing SHIFT+F9 (that’s holding down the SHIFT key and then typing the F9 function key). If the string reverts to a more normal view, then you have field codes “turned on.” I am sorry that I’m not an absolute Word guru, but I do know that stuff inside {} is a Word field code which is some sort of meta-information for Word but displays as text.
For example, in a Word document do this:
[ol]
[li]Select Insert > Field… from the main menu (means select the Insert main item, then Field from the dropdown)[/li][li]From the list of fields, select Date, then click OK.[/li][/ol]
You will see today’s date in the document.
Now click anywhere in the date string. You’ll see that the entire date is highlighted. Then, do SHIFT+F9, and you will see something like
{DATE *MERGEFORMAT}
It’s a field code. Hyperlinks in Word (as opposed to strings containing a URL) work the same way.
Dunno why you have field code visiblity turned on. Based on Word help, I suggest you enter ALT+F9, which should turn OFF field code visibility. Word calls this switching between “field codes” and “results”.
Many thanks. You fix has resolved the problem. 