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WD97: Check Links Finds Some Redirected Links Are Invalid

Article ID: 173770

Article Last Modified on 1/20/2007

Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q173770

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Word 97, when you run the Check Links command on a Web page that contains redirected links, Word may find that some redirected links are broken.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, when Word prompts you that a redirected link is broken, click Ignore in the "Check Links: Broken Link" dialog box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

A redirected link is one that redirects you to a different Web page.

The new Check Links feature in the Web Authoring Tools Update checks each hyperlink or linked image in a Word 97 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document to verify that the target destination exists. For each broken hyperlink, Word prompts you to update the hyperlink.

For additional information about the Web AutoUpdate feature in Word, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

172747 WD97: What's New in the Web Page Authoring Tools Update

163299 WD97: Web Page Authoring Tools AutoUpdate

172502 WD97: Troubleshooting Setup for the Web AutoUpdate Feature

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