Document links a name problem

I am having an a href / a name problem after constructing my
newsletter for email dissemination. When I create the email and use
a href="article1" to a name="article1" it works on my computer to
take the viewer from the menu link to the document in the article
but when I send it out in a test email it attempts to find a
location on my computer.
Help please so I can send out my email newsletter.
Thanks
Voodoo

Hi David - yes, you and I both!! It has totally wrecked my data-base of Help links.
The more this issue is given air space maybe the better chance to rectify it. Surely it can't be too difficult to create a method whereby old URLs are transferred to the new system?

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1.
The unique identifier of an applescript object can vary from object to object and application to application. Name and id are commonly used for unique identifiers, index is sometimes used, and some applications define their own odd unique referents. Plus, an object can have more than one unique identifier. In fact, you can objects with no public unique identifiers: e.g. 'word' objects, which can only be referenced by relative or absolute position in a string. See the discussions in applescript reference forms.
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2.
As a rule, unique properties will be listed as read only (r/o) which means they can only be set at the time the object is made. Sometimes you have to hunt for them, though. For instance, document objects in Text Edit seem not to have any unique identifier until you notice that window objects have a unique id property and each window object has one and only one document object. So, you can uniquely specify a document using something like document of window id xxxxx.
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3.
If you're going to change a unique property, step up to the object's container and find another unique reference that (temporarily) won't change. For example, if you want to change a file's name, find a reference to the file within its folder (e.g. third file of folder x). Of course, you can always kite it as you did above (change the name and then reference it as though it were a new object with the new name).
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