Relative Hyperlinks

[Pat Hudson]

I am preparing a training resource for UK Scouts which I want to publish on a
CDROM.

The training materials are stored in documents in MS Word (XP), Excel and
PDF format. I have an Index created in MS WORD, all are in the same directory
on my hard disk and will be in the same directory on the CDROM, I could
easily make these directories the same name.

When I try to create a hyperlink, I get a hard coded Drive and Directory
path to the directory on my hard disk, this is fine on my machine but when I
copy to CDROM these links remain and are therefore not distributable to
anyone else.

I need to either create completely relative links (no drive or directory
path) or a path referring to "current directory" which will work on any media
on whatever drive letter.

 

[Bob I]

Strip the drive letter and colon for a path starting at the root. Use a
single dot or no path to indicate current directory and two dots to
start in the parent of the current directory.

 

[Pat Hudson]

Bob I

Thanks for this but no matter what I do Word XP either puts back the hard
coded path or says the site is invalid ?

 

[Bob I]

This works in Word 2000 and Word 2003. Don't have Word 2002 to test.
Perhaps you are not editing the Address correctly? As for the "Tool tip"
that appears if you hover the mouse cursor, you may ignore that, as it
will always reflect the complete path to the file. Please select Edit
Hyperlink and check the "address" there. Otherwise I don't know what
else you could be doing that doesn't allow it to work properly.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Pat,

The Hyperlink field in Word is not as controllable as
many of us would like. See if this article helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903163
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Bob I

Thanks for this but no matter what I do Word XP either puts back the hard
coded path or says the site is invalid ?
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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