Putting links out to DT items into an MS-WORD doc

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Hi all – Is there any way for me to put the “item link” url for a document that I’ve got in DT Pro Office into an MS-WORD document?
I have the outline for a book I’m writing in MS-WORD, and I’d like to link various outline headings in my outline to the relevant document in my DT database. (I’m the only user of the outline, so I don’t need the links to work on any computer except mine, where both MS-WORD and DT are installed.)
Hope I’ve been clear on what I’m trying to do! Basically, create a link from a phrase in a WORD doc out to an item in DT… I tried creating a hyperlink from the phrase in WORD out to the URL I got via the “copy item link” command in DT, but WORD gives the error message “cannot open the specified file”.

Blake

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What version of Word are you using?

I am able to assign a hyperlink in Word 15.20 with a DEVONthink item link as the destination. The link opens the document in DEVONthink, as expected.

Older versions of Word were not accepting this type of link.

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I’m using 14.6.1 for Mac.

So sounds like I have no options, then, to use links as I want to…

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Could you use Pages or TextEdit – and other RTF editors that recognize DEVONthink URLs.

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Thanks, Korm – I may just need to update my Word, from the sound of it. (Which I hate doing because there are always subtle problems using older documents … but my book editor would kill me, I think, if I moved to an entirely new platform…)

Cheers,

Blake

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FWIW, Work in Office 365 has turned out to be pretty good, in my opinion. The earlier releases were buggy, but things have improved.