I suspect you have not received an answer because there isn't one. Word's
handling of external hyperlinks has always been unsatisfactory. If you want
them relative, it makes them absolute, and vice versa.

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"MattM" wrote in message
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Hello everyone, on the 25th May I posted the question below. No responses
so
far, just wondering that's because the answer is already elsewhere in this
forum? I'd be grateful if someone could direct me to it if that's the
case.
Many thanks
MattM

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I am one of those people who is driven up the wall by Word's insistence on
turning hyperlinks into relative hyperlinks. We have Office files on a
shared
network driver here and we commonly want to be able into include
hyperlinks
to those files in our Word documents. We want this to work even if the
Word
document containing the hyperlinks is moved or emailed from one member of
the
team to another.

A suggested solution is to stop Word turning hyperlinks into relative
hyperlinks by putting an "x" or a "C:\" in the hyperlink base property (as
described in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=903163). However, this
then
breaks all the links between one part of the document to another. For
example, it is no longer possible to click on a page number in the ToC and
get to the page; it is no longer possible to use a hyperlink to a local
bookmark.