Reader, let us forebear to note the year and simply observe how remarkable it is that Microsoft Word is still reduced to a babbling, incoherent puddle by a user's attempt to click a hyperlink. 
This is of a piece but much worse than those website that come up and place a very concerned hand on your forearm to notify you that -- listen, please be careful about this, are you really sure this is a good idea? -- this link is going to take you an external website.
Perish when the link you click is to (shudder) a PDF, thus freezing Word in a two-minute bout of crippling existential dread. I read somewhere that what's going on is that Word actually *internally loads and processes links* before disgustedly handing the URL off to a browser.
