I can't see what you are doing but when I past some URL (hyperlink) to Chrome's address bar it's fine here.
Bob
Finally just learned how to make a hyperlink in my Word97 doc. But when I c/p to Chome it doesn't copy as a link. It does when I paste into IE. Is there a setting in Chrome to check?

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