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Default Moving Links to Objects in Current Folder

I have been using a Word document since Office 97 that links to charts in
Excel documents that are contained in the same folder as the Word document.
Many times per day I will copy this folder and then paste in new Excel files
and open the Word document, and update the links. In Every version of
Office, Word would pick up the links from the Excel files in the current
document, even though if you chose NOT to update the links, you could see
they pointed to the original folder. But if you updated the links using the
prompt when opening the file, it would change them to the current folder.
Word 2007 inexplicably now refuses to look in the current folder, and keeps
the links pointed to the orginal folder. Oddly, Excel 2007 maintains the
"old" behavoir and looks in the current folder when updating links.

I have tried all of the suggestions I could find online, including this one
that was referenced in another post
(http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...Number=670027), and also I
have tried using alt-F9 to view the field codes and upate them all using
Find/Replace. In Word 2007, when I "manually" re-point these links, I just
end up with an Error! Not a valid link. It appears there is more to links
than just the textual path that these examples expose.

I am desperately hoping there is a solution to this, or it looks like I'll
be running Word 2003 for a long, long time. If anyone has any ideas, I'd
appreciate the help.

Thanks!
 
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