Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
fast way to change links when moving two linked files.
I have a word document in which are some links to an excel spreadsheet. I
need to move both these files into a different folder so that the new word document is linked to the new spreadsheet. However, whether i cut/copy and paste them or save as to the new folder, the word document in the new folder is linked back to the original spreadsheet. Despite trying different ways of copying the two linked files to a new folder, I still end up having to change each indiviual link to correspond to the new excel spreadsheet; if i highlight a number of links at a time i still have to change the file path for each link separately. This may seem trivial, however, there are over 200 links in the word document, the new folder and old folder are very far away in terms of file path and i have to do this for a number of different documents. would be very grateful for any tips that you can offer |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
fast way to change links when moving two linked files.
Three ways:
1) Ensure the links point to the same folder that contains the document file 2) Use EditLinks... The first one has the disadvantage that you need collect the document and its linked objects in the same folder BEFORE you insert the links. Alternatively, you "can" move the document into the folder, then "Update Links" which will update, but probably will not update the link paths. Word has a default: it looks first in the same folder as the document, regardless of the path indicated by the link, so if everything is in the same folder, the links will continue to work even though they are "wrong". The second method is great if you have 200 links to the same object, because you can change them all in a single batch. But if you have a link to each of 200 objects, it's not fun at all... 3) The third method is to Reveal Field Codes and use Find/Replace to replace the paths. This works well if there is a common string between the old path names and the new ones. Look up the Help on revealing field codes. Hope this helps On 9/2/06 10:58 PM, in article , "goshawk" wrote: I have a word document in which are some links to an excel spreadsheet. I need to move both these files into a different folder so that the new word document is linked to the new spreadsheet. However, whether i cut/copy and paste them or save as to the new folder, the word document in the new folder is linked back to the original spreadsheet. Despite trying different ways of copying the two linked files to a new folder, I still end up having to change each indiviual link to correspond to the new excel spreadsheet; if i highlight a number of links at a time i still have to change the file path for each link separately. This may seem trivial, however, there are over 200 links in the word document, the new folder and old folder are very far away in terms of file path and i have to do this for a number of different documents. would be very grateful for any tips that you can offer -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Attaching/sending links to user's Word help files... | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Attaching/sending links to user's Word help files... | New Users | |||
Converting hyperlinks in .doc to working links in .htm... | Microsoft Word Help | |||
can I change the filename Word uses for its lock files? | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Word should allow me to change the default folder for data files. | Mailmerge |