External Link through Contents

Question

As you can tell I am extremely new to this and was unable to
locate it in the Book. But is there a way to link to a external
file? I know how to do it from within a page, but I can not figure
out how to do it through the contents section without causing the
red x to appear over the file name
James

Answer 1

What do you mean by "the TOC is not picking up the page"?
Are you saying the page does not appear in the TOC?
Are you saying it appears but clicking it does not take you
to the required page?
I suspect you mean the latter. First create a new project and
generate the output to your hard disk. In that output create a TOC
entry in the way I described so the link is perhaps c:\test.htm.
That will prove to you the idea works. After that it is more likely
the path was not correct in your main project.
The alternative is to include a blank topic in your project
and point to that in your TOC. In the blank topic include a
redirect (how is in Rick's Tips and Tricks) to the external topic
you want. However, the path to go in the redirect will be the same
as the path I am describing to you so if you cannot get that to
work, I am not sure that will get you any further forward.
Nonetheless try those things in a simple one topic project
where you can more easlly see and test things.
Come back if you still cannot get it to work.