Hyperlink that does not link

U

Umar

I created a field called FileName in Access the type is hyperlink then I
imported from Excel the list of thousand of file names such as
“\\MAIN-SERVER\DOWN-SERVER\My_Documents.doc“ after the import succeeded then
I clicked to open the file, however it does not work, it won't open the file.

I tried an experiment and paste that file name in Word, Ctrl-Click does not
open it.

So, next I put the cursor to the end of File Name hit the Backspace button
which invalidates the linkage, then I hit the Enter button after which Word
made the File Name a linkage again. I do the Ctrl-Click and the new document
is opened.

Following that I Copied this File Name from the Word document and Paste it
in the FileName field in Access. Guess what! it works and open
My_Documents.doc, so now I can open My_Documents.doc from Access.

However I don’t want to do this thousand times, any idea how to automate
this process or do it another way?

Any help is appreciated.
 

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