ABSOLUTE hyperlinks in Word.

[Al Gale]

When creating a hyperlink to another document in Word, the link is created as
a RELATIVE one, i.e. the path to the TARGET document, is relative to where
the SOURCE documents sits.

However, in our organisation, the source document will be moved when filed
away, and all hyperlinks are then invalid, i.e. broken. So, we need all
hyperlinks to be ABSOLUTE, and give the fully qualified path to the TARGET
document, regardless of where the SOURCE document may be.

But how do we make this an automatic feature??

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Populate the Hyperlink Base property in the document (look it up in the help
to see how to access it).

Then enter a path that is relative to the Hyperlink Base.

When you set the hyperlink base, Word leaves the hyperlink path alone: you
can set it to whatever you like. If you make the hyperlink base the
location of the server on which you intend to publish the documents, it will
all work when they get there.

Cheers


On 15/8/06 8:59 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Al Gale" <Al

When creating a hyperlink to another document in Word, the link is created as
a RELATIVE one, i.e. the path to the TARGET document, is relative to where
the SOURCE documents sits.

However, in our organisation, the source document will be moved when filed
away, and all hyperlinks are then invalid, i.e. broken. So, we need all
hyperlinks to be ABSOLUTE, and give the fully qualified path to the TARGET
document, regardless of where the SOURCE document may be.

But how do we make this an automatic feature??

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