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Relative hyperlinks change to absolute when saving in Word 2003
I created an online work manual using a previous version of Word, 2002 I
believe. The files are created on my local C: drive and moved to the G: drive on our network. Recently we were upgraded to Windows XP and Office 2003. Now when I copy the manual files over to the network, the links change to Absolute. I've tried unchecking the Save on exit, etc. but nothing works. Any suggestions? |
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Hi ?B?Q29zYmVy?=,
I created an online work manual using a previous version of Word, 2002 I believe. The files are created on my local C: drive and moved to the G: drive on our network. Recently we were upgraded to Windows XP and Office 2003. Now when I copy the manual files over to the network, the links change to Absolute. Check Tools/Options/General/Web Options/Files. There's a checkbox there about updating links on save. Turn it OFF. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Thank you Cindy. That works for stopping the updating, but where is the
option for choosing to make relative links? When I create a link, everything has "C:\\mydocuments..." etc. Office help says I can choose what kind of link I want but I don't see that option anywhere. Cosber "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q29zYmVy?=, I created an online work manual using a previous version of Word, 2002 I believe. The files are created on my local C: drive and moved to the G: drive on our network. Recently we were upgraded to Windows XP and Office 2003. Now when I copy the manual files over to the network, the links change to Absolute. Check Tools/Options/General/Web Options/Files. There's a checkbox there about updating links on save. Turn it OFF. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?Q29zYmVy?=,
That works for stopping the updating, but where is the option for choosing to make relative links? When I create a link, everything has "C:\\mydocuments..." etc. Office help says I can choose what kind of link I want but I don't see that option anywhere. That depends on what you're trying to link in? Excel stuff? Other Word documents? Hyperlinks? Something else? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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From: "Cindy M -WordMVP-" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:46 AM Subject: Relative hyperlinks change to absolute when saving in Word 200 Hi ?B?Q29zYmVy?=, That works for stopping the updating, but where is the option for choosing to make relative links? When I create a link, everything has "C:\\mydocuments..." etc. Office help says I can choose what kind of link I want but I don't see that option anywhere. That depends on what you're trying to link in? Excel stuff? Other Word documents? Hyperlinks? Something else? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org Hello Cindy, The terms relative and absolute when attached to the term "link" are established terms. The procedures for implementing these types of links should NOT be dependent on how a specific software decides to apply them. (Contrary to what MS believes.) Their use is not even Windows specific, rather the relative and absolute terms are applicable across multiple OS. Any idea why Word, Office or MS have a compulsion to create their own methods? Are they rebellious by nature :-)) Or they just choose to alienate their users from the remainder of the world ;-)))) |
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Hi Lostinspace,
The terms relative and absolute when attached to the term "link" are established terms. The procedures for implementing these types of links should NOT be dependent on how a specific software decides to apply them. (Contrary to what MS believes.) Their use is not even Windows specific, rather the relative and absolute terms are applicable across multiple OS. Any idea why Word, Office or MS have a compulsion to create their own methods? I can't speak for any Office application except Word, here... Whenever something seems odd, and contrary to "standard practice", it always helps to take a step back and remember that WinWord's core behavior was designed over fifteen years ago. Back then, in the early days of Windows-on-top-of-DOS, Windows was mostly standalone, or only very loosely coupled to a network. Things were so compartmentalized that even the idea of *linking* something in from another application was revolutionary. (Am I dating myself, here g?) The tools to actually do it didn't really exist, and were developed gradually, from the MS side starting with DDE, which was eventually replaced by OLE. In addition, Word picked up the ability to display information from files it could open using converters (documents, text, simple spreadsheets, graphics). 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. For OLE (LINK fields), an absolute path is always required. I don't know the reason why, but I suspect it might have something to do with performance hits if Word needs to start looking for the file. As to Hyperlinks and this particular absolute vs. relative option, I've discussed this a couple of times with MS folks, but have never heard a clear answer as to why this rather confusing behavior exists. What I think I know: - Word should create a relative path if the files are in the same folder - But if you then use Save As on the document, and the file it references is not in the new location, Word will switch to an absolute path (if this option is activated) - This can also happen if you move the document (but not the referenced file), then open the document - Getting it to switch back automatically is "iffy" - Originally, this behavior was designed only for saving as HTML, but in Word 2002 someone decided it really should apply to ALL links in a document. So it was changed without documenting it, and without putting the option in a more obvious place. - The "hyperlink base" (File/Properties) is supposed to help with sorting out relative/absolute situations, allowing you to specify a particular path for links, no matter where the document resides. === The moving force behind the design decision is almost always "lots of people (may = big corporation customers) want it that way". And lastly, one always has to keep in mind that the people who make these decisions rarely work with Word at a "professional" level. They rely on feedback from various sources for their decisions, and sometimes they don't listen to the right people (or a wide enough range of people) :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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