[mso] Re: MsWord Hyperlinks Don't Work After Moving Documents
- From: "Green" <1z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:37:36 +0200
Hi,
My experiments say that you can't... and this is very much "by
design". It seems to be because of web paqes being referenced in a
"relative" manner. It seems the web is driving a lot of descisions at
the moment.
:-(
Lisa
> I have a large number of word documents with a few
> hyperlinks in each of
> them.
> The 'relative hyperlinks' stop working when the documents
> are moved 'en
> masse' to another folder,
> even though the hyperlink target files remain in their
> original location.
> (Opening and then saving the documents to the new location
> works ok, but
> that takes a lot of time.)
>
> MsWord seems to allow absolute addressing only if the
> target file is located
> on a different server.
> It appears to always want some sort of relative addressing
> otherwise.
> (Either using the Property->Base Hyperlink or the current location.)
>
> How can I force absolute addressing in an MsWord Hyperlink?
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