Ok, now I'm puzzled. MattM says he has a problem with hyperlinks, Suzanne
(whose opinion I value highly) says there is no answer to MattM's problem,
but I don't have this kind of problem. All the documents I work on have
TOCs, most of them have absolute hyperlinks, and both sets of links work just
fine 100% of the time, both for me and for all users within our company's
intranet domain. Maybe I just don't understand the problem.
I did have a little trouble making my hyperlinks work, at first, though. I
found that I couldn't link to an internal document on a server that was
mapped as a drive on my computer. If I had our Gemini server mapped as my E
drive, nobody else could follow a link to an address that was formatted like
e:\TechWriters\document.doc unless they also had the Gemini server mapped as
their E drive. If Virgo was their E drive and Gemini was their F drive,
everything got screwed up.
But when I went to My Network Places and searched for the Gemini server, I
got an address that looked like \\Zodiac\Gemini\TechWriters\document.doc.
When I used that kind of address in my hyperlinks (instead of
e:\TechWriters\document.doc), everything worked fine for everybody.
What am I missing in this problem?
Fred
"MattM" wrote:
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.