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How to Create Links to Notes Documents in Microsoft Office Applications

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This is a question that comes up occasionally for me at client sites.  From the KnowledgeBase...

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How to Create Links to Notes Documents in Microsoft Office Applications

Document Number:  1115709

Problem

You are using a Microsoft Office application, Microsoft Excel for example, and you want to create a link to a Notes document.  How can this be done?


Content
Within Microsoft Excel, you can create links to Notes documents as follows:

  1. Within the Notes document, right click and select "Copy as document link."
  2. In Excel, select Edit -> Paste Special from the menu.
  3. In the Paste Special options, select "Paste Link", "Picture (Enhanced Metafile)", and "Display as Icon"

or
  1. Within the Notes document, copy the document's Notes URL (Notes://DominoServer/UNID) or the HTTP URL (http://FQHN-DominoServer/UNID)
  2. In Excel, select Insert -> Hyperlink.
  3. In the "Insert Hyperlink" options, type in the text that will be displayed as the clickable link and paste the URL address into the "Type the file or web page name" field.

Comments

Gravatar Image1 - Is there an article somewhere that discusses how to create a Notes URL in general? For example, I want to send a URL via email using Thunderbird as the client, and when they click the URL open the database in Notes. I can see that "notes://" will start the process, but I am unclear how to create the remaining address for the URL.

Gravatar Image2 - The document link / Paste Special option worked ONCE -- when I try to link a second document I get a blank rectangle rather than an icon pasted onto the spreadsheet, and I can't active the document link by double-clicking it ... any suggestions?

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