Matt, Suzanne,
I feel your pain. We just rolled out a Policies and Procedures site with
approximately 2000 documents (many of them Word docs). They all live in one
big happy directory on a Windows Sharepoint site, so relative links are fine.
I wrote a Perl program to add the site address to the Hyperlink Base
property so that if our users should copy a document to their desktop, the
links will still work. It works perfectly... that is until today when I
realized that the hyperlink base was being prepended (is that a word) to
front of the internal document links (how dumb is that). For example a link
to a internal bookmark has the site address added to the front of it. Some
users are not having trouble though and I think they may be using an earlier
version of Word. I am using 2003 (11.8106.8107) sp2.
Have any of you found an explanation from Microsoft? I can find it in the
knowledge base.
ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!
"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.