Question

is there any way to programmaticaly add an hyperlink to the selected text in a MS Word Add-In?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The code below converts selected text into a hyperlink which points to the Microsoft site:

        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Range currentRange = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Selection.Range;

        if (currentRange != null)
        {
            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Hyperlink hp = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Hyperlink)
                currentRange.Hyperlinks.Add(currentRange, "http://www.microsoft.com");

        }

The actual text of the hyperlink,by default, will be your selected text. If you need this text to be of different value, for instance – the actual url address, you can simply change the TextToDisplay property:

hp.TextToDisplay = "http://www.microsoft.com";

I’m not sure exactly how dynamic your logic needs to be but I believe the above example will give you a push in the right direction.