----- Original Message -----
From: "Cosber"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:29 PM
Subject: Relative hyperlinks change to absolute when saving in Word 200


Word is certainly not the best thing to use for HTML-but I gotta believe
it's
far better than any text editing program like NotePad. I don't want to
have
to enter HTML coding when I can have a program do it for me, as poor as it
may be. I just wish I could get things back to the way they were before
the
upgrade, especially since no one can answer my question.

"lostinspace" wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cosber"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:35 PM
Subject: Relative hyperlinks change to absolute when saving in Word
200


I work for the City of San Diego-we are only allowed to work with City
Standard software. Anything else on our machines is grounds for firing
squad
and asking for special software has the same chance as requesting a
raise.

"lostinspace" wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cosber"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:11 AM
Subject: Relative hyperlinks change to absolute when saving in
Word
200


I appreciate the help, but I don't know if I'm getting my question
across
so
I'll try it one more time: With the previous version, working either
from
the
C drive, or even my zip drive which was on E:, I would create a
hyperlink
in
one document to another document in my manual. I created probably
dozens
of
hyperlinks from page to page. When I would move the entire folder,
or
even
just a single document to ANY place-another drive, another folder,
another
computer, the links would change accordingly-I believe the term for
these
links is "relative'. Since changing to XP and Office 2003, they
don't
change
when they are moved. They stay pointed to wherever I worked on the
file.

Is there a setting someplace that will stop this from happening?


Cosber,
Once you have made the conversion from Word-Docs to
html?
Html pages are straight text files with an html file extension.
These may be edited with any text editor. There are utility text
editors
designed spefically for dealing with html pages and search and
replace
of
single or multiple lines either in a single folder or across
multiple
folders.

One that I use is "Search and Replace 98" which is free:
http://www.htmlworkshop.com/srhtml98.html




I don't have 2003.
In 2000:

Tools / Options / General / Web Options / Files / Update Links on
Save,
untick.
While your here, also a good idea to untick, " Organize
supportingfiles
in a
folder."

If your main goal is html pages, you will save your self plenty of
time
and
effort by making the conversion to an appropiate software rather than
wasting your time attempting to make Word do something it was not
designed
for.




All Windows based computers come with NOTEPAD or some other simple text
editor.
Even the old DOS systems had some archaric old thing named
"Reg-something"
which was line based editing of text files.

You'll need to work with the tools you have available, as Word is not a
good
tool for html.




Cosber,
When using Word to create web pages (as in most other things
in life,) it's simply not possible to "have your cake and eat it too."

Your option are that you either use the limited options that Word offers or
your work with the confined tools of your employers policies.

The Below from Cindy's reply to my inquiry:

"For these last, relative paths are supported (but only in relation to
Word's
current "active" folder, not the document), but until recently, you ALWAYS
had
to edit the field code to create them. Since Word 2000 (or maybe 97?), Word
will create a relative path for you, under certain circumstances."

With the above in mind?

I'd advise you to create a directory/folder structure on your working
machine which parallels your wesbites directory/folder structure.

Turn off some of the Word web options (previously advsied) and create your
Word HTML pages. With the created files being in the base folder of your
local machine which is comparable to your website. (Please note that the
actual position of the base folder on your local machine is irrelavant.)
It's only urgent that the directory/folder structure below that base folder
is comparable to the structure below your websites root folder.

Upload the pages to the website.
Check that the pages and links function.
If they do not, then edit the links with NotePad and reload the pages.

By html standards these are simple procedures.
Word users however and as a rule desire completed and functioning pages
served up on their platter. It's just not possible without comprehending
internet procedures.

If you neither have the time or desire to learn these procedures?
Than you should not be creating web pages, just my opinion.