How to Repair Broken Hyperlinks

While working on a web, you should occasionally check to see if the web has broken hyperlinks and if it does, repair them. A broken hyperlink is one that has an invalid destination URL and will return an error if the site visitor clicks the hyperlink.

A hyperlink might have an invalid URL for various reasons; you might have mistyped it, or, if the destination page is on another World Wide Web site, the page might have been changed or removed.

1. On the View menu, point to Reports, and then click Broken Hyperlinks.
   All broken hyperlinks in the web are listed. If a hyperlink's destination is not in the current web, the status of the hyperlink is Unknown.
2. First click on In Page. By doing this FrontPage will sort all files by folders in alphabetical order. Select the files, you are assigned to and right-click on the selection.
   You will get pop-up menu ( see picture below ) and select Verify.  The Status will be changed to Broken orOK.  
3. Right-click a hyperlink with Broken status.
4. To display the page to edit it, click Edit Hyperlink.

   

1. If you know the correct URL of the destination, edit it in the Replace hyperlink with box. Or, click Browseto browse to the page or file in a web, file system, or World Wide Web.
2. To repair other occurrences of this hyperlink in all pages in the current web, click Change in all pages.
3. To repair other occurrences of this hyperlink in selected pages, click Change in selected pages, and then select the pages.
4. Click Replace.
5. If you want to edit the hyperlink on the page itself, click Edit Page button and FrontPage will display the page for you with the broken hyperlink  being already highlighted for you.

If the hyperlink's destination is not in the current web, the status of the hyperlink changes to Unknown. If the destination is valid, the hyperlink is no longer displayed in the Broken Hyperlinks report.