[David]

I have a word document we are using to describe to the team a compiling
process, with hyperlinks to the different '.bat' files to be launched in
sequence.

That document is on a drive mounted (in our case the document is in
ClearCase, accessed through a view) which is in fact a mount on a local
folder (ClearCase requires it, e.g. view mounted on the Z: drive, pointing on
e.g. \\localhost\views\view_tag)

Those hyperlinks are relative to the document current folder location in the
view (e.g. '.\compile\main\run.bat'). the problem is that those links are
showing up and running (CTRL+Click) using the UNC document location rather
than the absolute path and thus fail
(\\localhost\views\view_tag\document_location\rela tive_path\bat instead of
Z:\document_location\relative_path\bat)

Is there a way to set up Word or hyperlinks in a document not to convert
relative paths/hyperlinks to UNC but rather use the drive location in which
the document was opened from? It seems also the UNC conversion occurs when
word opens the document in the first place (Word status bar displays
"contacting \\localhost\views\view_tag ... for infomation. Click ESC to
cancel").