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Links from Word to pdf doc online not working
I went into Manage Extensions in Chrome (after switching back to Chrome from Edge), and I disabled the Adobe extension. Now the links come up as they should, without "chrome-extension//....." tacked onto the front. That's what was throwing the system off.
Thanks!! #8 did the trick. I clicked on "Edit Hyperlink" in Word to bring up the dialog box for the link, and here's the way Word was storing the link (I'm curious as to how the chrome extension got grafted onto the front end of the link, even after I switched browsers to MS Edge):
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https:/www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resources/long-covid.pdf
I stripped out "chrome-extension//....." and added an extra backslash after "https:/" and now it works fine.
https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resources/long-covid.pdf
Not sure why this started happening, and not sure what the best way is, going forward, to add links to online pdf's in Word. Should I find and remove the chrome extension?
Thanks again for your help!!
I went into Manage Extensions in Chrome (after switching back to Chrome from Edge), and I disabled the Adobe extension. Now the links come up as they should, without "chrome-extension//....." tacked onto the front. That's what was throwing the system off.