Hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel and Word - Linking Documents

[dbulak]

I am running Microsoft Excel and have successfully hyperlinked to documents in Microsoft Word. Is it possible once I am in Microsoft Word to hyperlink or go back to the original document in Excel? I have checked the "help" in both and have come up with nothing. Can this really be done? or am I asking to much?

[howste]

To add a hyperlink in Word, type Ctrl-K or from the menu Instert > Hyperlink. This should open a dialog box allowing you to browse to the file you want to link to.

[M Greenaway]

Another way.

Open the 'Web' toolbar (View - Toolbars - Web) in Word.

Then when you hyperlink into word you can just hit the 'back' button (back arrow) on the web toolbar.

[D.Scott]

Pressing the <Alt> - <Tab> keys together will toggle your active window with the one previously viewed. If you are in Word and hyperlink to Excel then want to go back to Word, just press the <Alt> / <Tab> combination. If you wanted to return to Word and close the Excel hyperlink, just close the Excel document with the "X" in the upper corner. Your Word document will still be there.

Good to see you M.G.

Dave

[howste]

Heh, looks like your alt and tab didn't quite show up in your post. Must be an HTML thing...

[D.Scott]

Hmmmmm. Thanks Howste - you are right it doesn't work too well if you don't press ALT and TAB.

Thanks for catching that.

Dave

[Wes Bucey]

Originally Posted by D.Scott

Hmmmmm. Thanks Howste - you are right it doesn't work too well if you don't press ALT and TAB.

Thanks for catching that.

Dave

Putting carets (>) "right" or (<) "left" [reverse order, left caret first, then right caret on other side of text to be hidden, of course] around any text makes it invisible in html.

That's why it usually pays to look at the preview closely before submitting the post. Dave's original post (reading source code) had the Alt-Tab, but with the carets on either side of "Alt" and "Tab" which hid them in html.

[db]

I double click, to highlight the word, then right click and go to hyperlink. BTW, I think hyperlinking is one of the greatest things in document control for electronic systems. In fact, I know of many companies that have set up their entire system in html. It can be made attractive (and easy) enough so everyone will use it.