Follow Method

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Follow Method

       

Displays a cached document associated with the specified Hyperlink object, if it's already been downloaded. Otherwise, this method resolves the hyperlink, downloads the target document, and displays the document in the appropriate application.

Note   If the hyperlink uses the file protocol, this method opens the document instead of downloading it.

expression.Follow(NewWindow, AddHistory, ExtraInfo, Method, HeaderInfo)

expression   Required. An expression that returns a Hyperlink object.

NewWindow   Optional Variant. True to display the target document in a new window. The default value is False.

AddHistory   Optional Variant. This argument is reserved for future use.

ExtraInfo   Optional Variant. A string or byte array that specifies additional information for HTTP to use to resolve the hyperlink. For example, you can use ExtraInfo to specify the coordinates of an image map, the contents of a form, or a FAT file name. The string is either posted or appended, depending on the value of Method. Use the ExtraInfoRequired property to determine whether extra information is required.

Method   Optional Variant. Specifies the way additional information for HTTP is handled. Can be any MsoExtraInfoMethod constant.

Enumerated type can be one of these enumerated type constants.
msoMethodGet ExtraInfo is a string that's appended to the address.
msoMethodPost ExtraInfo is posted as a string or a byte array. 

HeaderInfo   Optional Variant. A string that specifies header information for the HTTP request. The default value is an empty string. You can combine several header lines into a single string by using the following syntax: "string1" & vbCr & "string2". The specified string is automatically converted into ANSI characters. Note that the HeaderInfo argument may overwrite default HTTP header fields.

Example

This example follows the first hyperlink in Home.doc.

Documents("Home.doc").HyperLinks(1).Follow

This example inserts a hyperlink to www.msn.com and then follows the hyperlink.

Dim hypTemp As Hyperlink

With Selection
    .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
    .InsertAfter "MSN "
    .Previous
End With

Set hypTemp = ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add( _
    Address:="http://www.msn.com", _
    Anchor:=Selection.Range)
hypTemp.Follow NewWindow:=False, AddHistory:=True