hyperlink to Word documents within a shared folders

[Bernadette_n]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Hi,

I'm trying to do hyperlinks to Word and PDF documents within shared folders, and it doesn't work. The link is made but Word doesn't want to open the documents. It works find when I am outside the shared folders, would that be the reason?

Thanks

Bernadette

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

No, the fact that the folders are shared is not the reason.

It may be that the folder names or paths contain spaces?

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Hi,

I'm trying to do hyperlinks to Word and PDF documents within shared folders,
and it doesn't work. The link is made but Word doesn't want to open the
documents. It works find when I am outside the shared folders, would that be
the reason?

Thanks

Bernadette

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[Bernadette_n]

Hi John,

Thank you for the answer. If I take both documents out of the shared folder than I have no problems... But if both or one of them is in a shared folder than it doesn't work. There is no space in the names of documents and when I insert the hyperlink, the path is automatically created...so I don't know what the problem is.

Bernadette

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

Hi Bernadette:

The hyperlink mechanism in sword 2008 is very flaky. There are multiple
cases where it just won't work.

But when I said "no spaces" I meant "No spaces in the entire URL", up to and
including the drive name. If there are spaces anywhere in the string, under
the old rules that's an illegal URI and it won't work...

Cheers

Hi John,

Thank you for the answer. If I take both documents out of the shared folder
than I have no problems... But if both or one of them is in a shared folder
than it doesn't work. There is no space in the names of documents and when I
insert the hyperlink, the path is automatically created...so I don't know what
the problem is.

Bernadette

--

The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]