Editing Anchors

To edit an anchor (or to see what it contains), double click the anchor text, or select the anchor field and press Alt+Shift+F9. This will bring up the Anchors dialogue box again. You may

• edit the NAME/HREF or TEXT fields, and then insert the changes using the Insert button.
• remove the anchor (but leave the text) by clicking the Remove button.
• leave the anchor as it was by clicking the Cancel button.

Note. If the text contains embedded images of other fields, you will see the message: "<<< Can't edit (contains graphics or other fields) >>>". To edit the text, you will need to remove the anchor field by clicking the Remove button (which will leave the text in the document), make the required changes, and then create the anchor field again.

Hot-Linking To an Anchor Target

You may use the Anchors dialogue box to "go to" an anchor's target file. To do this, double click the anchor text in the document to get the Anchors dialogue box, then click on the Go To button. The results of this will depend on the nature of the HREF anchor as follows:

For a reference to a NAME anchor in the current document:

HTML Author will move to the appropriate position in the document.

For a local reference to an HTML file:

HTML Author will open its source (.DOC) file if it is available. If the .DOC file cannot be found, then HTML Author will open the HTML (.HTM) file itself as a text file.

For a local refence to a file with another extension (e.g. .GIF, .JPG, .WAV, .AVI, etc.):

HTML Author will attempt to open it using the application that is registered for that filename extension in the WIN.INI file. (To register a filename extension, select Associate from the File menu in the Windows File Manager.)

For a reference to a remote URL (starting with: "http:" "file:" "ftp:" Or "mailto:"):

HTML Author will attempt to use Netscape to access the remote document. If you do not have Netscape, you will get an error message and be returned to the Anchors dialogue box. This option is useful for testing the validity of remote HREF Anchors whilst editing the document. When you have finished looking at the remote document, switch back to HTML Author using Alt & Tab.

Finding References to an Anchor

If you are viewing a NAME anchor in the Anchors Dialogue box, you may search for references to that anchor in the current document by clicking on the Find HREFs button. This will find, in turn, each HREF anchor that references the current NAME anchor, starting from the top of the document. Once you have found the HREF anchor you are interested in, you may go to that position in the document.