Hi Mike, Thanks for posting such a useful article. If only the mysterious powers at Microsoft still wrote online help systems that were actually helpful, as helpful as your blog. I have another problem, and I bet you know the answer.
I’m using Word 2010 and I need to be able to find my broken hyperlinks. I broke them on purpose – I removed two chapters because those features got moved to a newer product we make. However, I still need to update the manual for what’s left of the old product. I don’t need to fix the broken hyperlinks. I just need to be able to find them efficiently so I can delete or rewrite the sentences they reside in.
The document is 600 pages, so I’m hoping there’s an automated way to find only the broken hyperlinks. Thanks in advance!
Click on the Office Button in the top left corner of MS Word. Click on Word Options at the bottom of the drop down menu. Select Advanced. Scroll down and uncheck the box 'show field codes instead of their values.' In Word 2010 this is in the 'Show document content' subsection. (That's in Word 2007 & 2010; it may be a similar process in other. Display or hide field codes in Word 2007/2010/2013. Step 1: in Word 2007, click Office icon, and then click Word Options; in Word 2010/2013, click File tab, and then click Options. Step 2: click Advanced, and then check Show field codes instead of their values to display field code in document.
Thanks for clues, however it seems there is a bug in W2010 (as before). In some docs, where the linked elements are missing (e.g. Because moved without the alinked docs folder), the place where link is broken does not respond to any try and remains with this bloody red cross. The link actually exisit and can be updated, at this time it becomes possible to read the field code. Extremelly unpracticall since when word accepts toggling, a simple replace “wrong address ” “good address” would update all the links at once. I sep,t a lot of time with a “working copy” (toggling operates) to update a text-edited copy where links were changed to different folder!!! Mike, maybe you addressed my problem and I overlooked it.
I “upgraded” to Office 2013 after my old computer crashed and was replaced. Recently I opened a book I am writing and all of the field codes that were created as I was compiling an Index are displayed when I open the file. I tried the ctrl-a and Alt F9 and the only thing I saw change is that the page numbers were toggled to “PAGE”, and as far as I could detect, nothing else changed. I tried the FilesOptionsAdvancedShow document content Show field codes instead of their values and found that Show field codes instead of their values is not checked. Am I doing something wrong, or has Microsoft pulled another of their little tricks?