mouseWord function only picks up individual words,
delimited by spaces. In order to gather several words together into a
single hypertext link, you need to
separate them with characters other than a space.
On the Macintosh, a hard-space character can be inserted by pressing option-space (in some fonts this may look different to a normal space). In Windows (*******). The hard-space looks just like a space, but Director interprets it as a non-space and yokes together the words on either side into a single "word":
put "one two three" into blah -- this ^ is a hard space put word 1 of blah -- "one two"
You can however compare such a "word" to a phrase containing ordinary spaces and it will still match:
put word 1 of blah = "one two" -- this uses an ordinary space -- 1
Adjacent words may also be combined by using any other non-space character as a separator. This character can be disguised by setting it to the background colour of the field, though it will still show up with certain ink effects.