Found the fix for hyperlinks ... maybe.

[augwhite]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Like many others, I've been having trouble with hyperlinks. The links work fine if the target file (the document you're linking to) is in or below the directory of the source document (the document you're working on), but the path gets fouled up if the target is outside that directory.

I found a fix I don't think I've seen on the forums:

1. In the source document, go to 'File' menu and select 'Properties'
2. Click on the 'Summary' tab
3. Fill in the Hyperlink base entry (at the bottom) with the full path of the directory holding the source document.

Example: My computer's name is "Bhairava," (don't ask), so I use:
"Bhairava/Users/augwhite/Directoryname/"

I understand this may cause problems later if my source file is used as a target. Right now, this works -- which is good enough.

Please post something if this doesn't work for you. Thanks.

 

[macropod]

To see how to implement relative paths in Word, check out the solution I've posted at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=670027

 

[ajfisher]

Word's mishandling of hyperlinks also drives me up a wall; I really wish the development team would take a look at this (inability to hyperlink to documents higher in the directory structure).

In the meantime, I'm trying another solution: keep ALL of my document files in the "Documents" folder, and create aliases of these files that reside down in the directory structure where my original files were before. That way, all hyperlinks point to other documents in the same folder, but if I need to see the files in their original directories (where they are grouped by subject matter), I can look at the aliases.