Word Hyperlinks & burning a CD

[David K]

I have about 30 documents that I want to burn on a CD to distribute to
others. I have one Word file that will serve as an index file where the user
can click on a link to open the file that they want.

The problem is that when I create the hyperlinks in Word, the full path of
each document is recorded. Thus, when the CD is burned and you click on one
of the hyper links, the computer looks for the file in a speciif cdirectory
on the hard drive and NOT the CD.

How can I set the links so that they just look at the current directory
(which will end up being the CD) and NOT the full path?

Thanks

David

 

[Jezebel]

Word is deceptive about this. It always *displays* the full path, even if
you enter a relative path. It does however remember that it is a relative
path, so if you move the files elsewhere, the displayed path updates
correctly.

So the answer is, for each link, display the Hyperlinks dialog and enter the
relative path: simply the filename, if the file is in the same folder as the
index document. Or from VBA, iterate the document's Links collection and set
the .Address property for each link.