Relative Links in Word 2007

[Tom De Vos]

Hello,
We use an Word 2003 document that has linked (office) objects in a
subdirectory. These links are relative to the template document.
This lets us copy this template document into other "main" directories that
has the same subdirectories and folders. This document automatically loads
the "linked objects) thus creating a whole new document.

I cannot find the same possibility in office 2007. Did Microsoft remove the
relative link option?

 

[Jay Freedman]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:37:19 -0700, Tom De Vos <Tom De

Hello,
We use an Word 2003 document that has linked (office) objects in a
subdirectory. These links are relative to the template document.
This lets us copy this template document into other "main" directories that
has the same subdirectories and folders. This document automatically loads
the "linked objects) thus creating a whole new document.

I cannot find the same possibility in office 2007. Did Microsoft remove the
relative link option?

It hasn't been removed, but it has been made much harder to find.

On the Office button menu, click Prepare and then Properties. This
opens a pane across the top of the document that, as far as I can
tell, is mostly useless unless you're using SharePoint and/or InfoPath
to manage documents. In the top left corner of the pane, click
Document Properties and then Advanced Properties to open the same old
Properties dialog you knew from Word 2003. The Hyperlink Base box is
on the Summary tab of that dialog.

If you expect to use this often, you can add the Advanced Document
Properties button to the Quick Access Toolbar to open that dialog
directly.

 

[Tom De Vos]

Hi, thanx for the reply however it is not quite what we're looking for.
Imagine the following structure
c:\report1\rootdoc.docx
c:\report1\data\image.jpg
c:\report1\data\excel.xlsx
c:\report1\data\childdoc.docx

In rootdoc.docx all the files in the subfolder have been inserted and linked.
We autogenerate all files under the data folder. In 2003 we made the links
relative so that if we copy the rootdoc.docx into a folder c:\reportx\ all
links would automatically be to the files under the data folder of that
c:\reportx\ folder (.\ link)
c:\reportx\data\image.jpg
c:\reportx\data\excel.xlsx
c:\reportx\data\childdoc.docx

I have not found this in 2007 to be able to use the .\*** link for objects.

 

[macropod]

Hi Tom,

Word never has had native support for true relative link paths.

To see how to implement relative paths in Word, check out the solution I've posted at:
http://www.wopr.com/index.php?showtopic=670027