Absolute vs. relative hyperlinks

[MAB]

I'm creating hyperlinks with the format: "file://" & sFile
Where sFile is a string variable holder the UNC path and file name.

It seems sometime at some point after the hyperlinks are created, they're
changing from absolute to relative. Most spread sheet I populate with
hyperlinks stay absolute but some change to relative (why?).

Is there anything I can do to assure they stay absolute?

 

[MAB]

It seem one workstation is changing the hyperlinks from absolute to relative
as the hyperlink is programmatically created. Is there a setting or
something I can do to stop this behavior?

 

[MAB]

It seems one workstation is automatically applying a relative address even
though I'm programmatically supplying and absolute address. Any thoughts on
how I can stop this behavior?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe you could drop the Insert|Hyperlink style of hyperlinks and replace them
with by using the =hyperlink() worksheet function.

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I'm not sure if this will work with your hyperlinks, but a few people have said
that this has resolved the problem for them:

File|Properties|Summary Tab|Hyperlink Base
change it to C:\
(something that's always available)

 

[MAB]

Thanks for the response Dave.

The hyperlinks are pointing to diferent servers and various folder
structures. So, would Hyperlink Base help here?

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't know. You'll have to try it. Please post back with your results.