but that is true only if the document is store on a pc not in a server with
link to other shares or drives on the same server! At least with the DC
file server running on W2k3.

Or are you saying you had produced a document as I described in my first
thread and it worked?

Have you tried with target files that have space in the file name or path?
That works too if one stores the document on a domain PC instead of DC

"Jezebel" wrote in message
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When you create your hyperlinks, set the address explicitly to what you
want (relative or absolute) on the Hyperlinks dialog. Word won't change
it.


"gs" wrote in message
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1. how to suppress auto-conversion of absolute path in hypertext link in
word
documents?
2. how to deal with link target with space in the filename or directory
path?

I am talking about plain word 2003 document not html. The conversion
leaves hypertext links
to other documents in the same server likely unusable ( 100% failure for
target files with space in the name or path).

it appears that word documents including the ones form ofc 2003 tend to
convert absolute path to relative. consequently if a document is
produced
in a domain pc and stored in the pc will have its target link to the
server always
work.

However when the same document is then saved to server, the links got
converted to relative ..\..\... to the stored location..

e.g. if X: is mapped to \\aSvr\Xshare and a document hypertext link (
produced
with Ctl-K) link of x:\someDirPath\y.doc works as long the document is
stored other than on the server. when the same document is saved, let's
say
y:\DriPathb\whatever.doc where y is another mapped drive pointing to
aSvr,
The same hypertext link got converted into relative link. That then
will
not work;control click on the link will not go anywhere