Thanks I will try that. It seems to me that it would be much more useful for
Word, and all the other Office programmes to use environment variables as a
possible hyperlink base.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Once the hyperlinks are in the document, reveal your field codes, then use
Find/Replace to remove the path, leaving just the file name. Word won't put
it back in.

This technique requires that all the linked files be in the same folder as
the document.

Alternatively, save the document on the server before you add the
hyperlinks. That way, the links ought to be correct on anyone's computer.

cheers


On 3/4/06 5:21 PM, in article
, "ChrisB"
wrote:

Thanks,

However, setting no base adds a hyperlink ralative to my computer, it
inserts c:\etc ..., this will not be the same on other peoples machines.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Hi Chris:

The hyperlink base you set needs to be the complete path in Internet format
including the protocol identifier.

For hyperlink base to work, all the target documents need to be in the same
folder. You can't use a combination: it's either hyperlink base plus file
name (only), or you need the full explicit path and file name. You can't
have a hyperlink base + folder name + file name.

I suggest that what you "actually" want is NO hyperlink base. By default,
Word writes relative hyperlinks.

Cheers


On 30/3/06 6:54 PM, in article
, "ChrisB"
wrote:

I want to use an environment variable as a htperlink base in Word and Excel.
For example a variable DOCUMENTS may be set as c:\mystuff\documents and then
a hyperlink would be relative to it in a document. If I use
c:\mystuff\documents as the hyperlink base it is fine, but I can't see how
to
use the variable DOCUMENTS. %DOCUMENTS% doesn't seem to work.

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