Hi ?B?MmRvZ3M=?=,

These techniques must be documented somewhere.
My question is; Where?

I don't know of any documentation on this for Word. It's
more word-of-mouth and discovery/experience. Word is
complicated, in addition, because the "relative" paths are
actually relative to the CURRENT directory Word is
currently recognizing. So, if you would, for instance, open
another document from a different folder location, all of a
sudden the relative links in another document could stop
working.

Add to this that you can't use relative links in LINK
fields. (Word uses fields to maintain all types of links)

And, if you're not careful, recent versions of Word will
change the links if the option to update links is activated
in Tools/Options/General/Web options/Files.

To refer to a folder "below" the current folder, try:
".\\folder2\\abc.jpg"

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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