[AccessD] Hyperlink Questions

jack drawbridge jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Wed May 25 19:41:16 CDT 2016


Charlotte,
This passed my inbox in the last few days. I'm not sure if it applies or is
relevant to your set up, but for what it's worth here is a link from
codekabinett
<http://www.codekabinett.com/rdumps.php?Lang=2&targetDoc=access-hyperlink-data-type>

Good luck.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thought hyperlinks simply open the documents they point to, no fuss. It is
> a requirement of the hyperlink that has as it's subaddress an external file
> to open that file in order to go to the "address". Don't know what enables
> the action but that's how hyperlinks work. The followhyperlink events, if
> they existed,  kick in after the target is arrived at. That way n Excel
> anyway I think.
> On May 25, 2016 6:42 PM, "Charlotte Foust" <charlotte.foust at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm deconstructing an mdb written (so to speak) by various people and ran
> > across an interesting situation.  In one form, the OnClick event of a
> > button contains code to create a Word.Application object and set its
> > visible property to True.  Then it sets the HyerlinkAddress property of
> the
> > button to a Word document in a subordinate folder, and then opens a
> > report.  Apparently Word attempts to open that document immediately,
> which
> > confuses me no end because I can't see what would cause the hyperlink to
> be
> > followed unless we're somehow triggering one of the hidden events of the
> > command button.  There are no helpful comments in the code, of course.
> >
> > Can anyone explain it to me, please?
> >
> >
> > Charlotte Foust
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