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Maintaining HTML links to other folders in sent documents
I have a small personal collection of "stuff." My inventory is maintained
as a simple table in a Word document. Each row is one item. The last column of each row is an HTML link to an image folder that resides outside the document and elsewhere on my computer. Clicking the link takes you to the image of that item so you can see what it looks like. As long as I am on my computer this system and procedure works perfectly. But I am baffled as to how I can send my inventory listing with the embedded links to someone, say as an email attachment, or even if burned to CD. How do I preserve the links? How do I attach the folder containing the images? Even if the inventory document and image folder are burned to CD, doesn't that presume that readers CD drive would have the drive designation as mine? Am I missing something? Is there a better way to do deal with HTML links from inside a table to a separate folder? Thank you, mz |
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Maintaining HTML links to other folders in sent documents
Hi Mz,
The concept of *relative* vs. *absolute* links / file paths it what you're looking for. If you place the images in the same folder, or a sub-folder of the folder where the document is saved, Word should automatically generate a relative link. That is, the link will describe where the file is located in relation to the folder where the document containing the link is. Thus, when you copy or move the entire folder group, the links are maintained. If that's how things are set up currently, you shouldn't have any problem. Making it work after-the-fact could get a bit tricky, and whether it can work at all depends on the version of Word you're working with. I have a small personal collection of "stuff." My inventory is maintained as a simple table in a Word document. Each row is one item. The last column of each row is an HTML link to an image folder that resides outside the document and elsewhere on my computer. Clicking the link takes you to the image of that item so you can see what it looks like. As long as I am on my computer this system and procedure works perfectly. But I am baffled as to how I can send my inventory listing with the embedded links to someone, say as an email attachment, or even if burned to CD. How do I preserve the links? How do I attach the folder containing the images? Even if the inventory document and image folder are burned to CD, doesn't that presume that readers CD drive would have the drive designation as mine? Am I missing something? Is there a better way to do deal with HTML links from inside a table to a separate folder? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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Maintaining HTML links to other folders in sent documents
Cindy,
If keeping everything in a single folder is the answer, then that is simple enough. Originally, I had hoped to keep all of my image folders in one image archive, and to link to the various image folders as needed, but that appears to be an awkward solution if I need to send the table document and image folder together. I'm still early in the process. I will rearrange my inventory files and redo the links as it doesn't really matter where the inventory image folder is maintained for my my other desktop applications. mz "Cindy M." wrote in message news:VA.0000025b.0070731c@speedy... Hi Mz, The concept of *relative* vs. *absolute* links / file paths it what you're looking for. If you place the images in the same folder, or a sub-folder of the folder where the document is saved, Word should automatically generate a relative link. That is, the link will describe where the file is located in relation to the folder where the document containing the link is. Thus, when you copy or move the entire folder group, the links are maintained. Cindy Meister |
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