Opening hyperlinks in MS Word

[s0ccerdude]

I have a document that contains only hyperlinks to .rtf files stored on my pc.

The links are set up as follows:

C:\My Documents\Data\1.rtf
C:\My Documents\Data\2.rtf
C:\My Documents\Data\3.rtf
C:\My Documents\Data\4.rtf
C:\My Documents\Data\5.rtf...

The only way that I've been able to navigate to these files is by holding down ctrl and left-clicking on each hyperlink address.

I want to automate this process, so that each hyperlink opens automatically (without me having to click on the link). Once the desired .rtf file opens, I have recorded a macro that will clean up and close the document. When the .rtf document closes, I'm back to the Word file with all of the hyperlinks...and the process repeats.


Can anyone think of a way to automate this process so that I don't have to click on each file?

 

[MoiraT]

Don't know how to do this automatically but you can turn off the Ctrl + Click option so that you get the finger pointer for opening hyperlinks, so 1 action instead of 2. Go to Tools, Options, General then untick "Use Ctrl + Click to follow hyperlinks". This applies to Word 2002.