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link to text boxes fail to update
I have a document originally composed in Word 2003 which I am revising
in Word 2007. The document is primarily used to present a large number of tables, about 120, which are written in another program and saved as .rtf files. The .rtf is perfectly OK. We have linked in these external text boxes but the links are not working properly. 1) I can highlight the link, right-click, select "Update link" and I get "Error! Not valid file name" 2) I would like to use relative file references, so that whereever I put the document, I can update from that directory this does not work. 3) I click "Alt-F9" and convert the links to editable references to enter the correct form. However, regardless of what I do, I cannot create a text string which has the correct form, since no information exists about how to do this. 4) When I move the document, I break the references. This is really really irritating to my co-workers. As it stands right now, I must do 120 re-inserts of files already linked, and cannot be sure that if I do it, I will have to do it again. Why is this "link-to" feature so poorly debugged? Is there additional information somewhere about using this "feature" of Word 2007? |
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link to text boxes fail to update
On Oct 6, 10:59 am, Data Guy wrote:
I have a document originally composed in Word 2003 which I am revising in Word 2007. The document is primarily used to present a large number of tables, about 120, which are written in another program and saved as .rtf files. The .rtf is perfectly OK. We have linked in these external text boxes but the links are not working properly. 1) I can highlight the link, right-click, select "Update link" and I get "Error! Not valid file name" 2) I would like to use relative file references, so that whereever I put the document, I can update from that directory this does not work. 3) I click "Alt-F9" and convert the links to editable references to enter the correct form. However, regardless of what I do, I cannot create a text string which has the correct form, since no information exists about how to do this. 4) When I move the document, I break the references. This is really really irritating to my co-workers. As it stands right now, I must do 120 re-inserts of files already linked, and cannot be sure that if I do it, I will have to do it again. Why is this "link-to" feature so poorly debugged? Is there additional information somewhere about using this "feature" of Word 2007? I forgot to add one question: Is there a way in Word 2007 to indicate a location to search for files? That is, can I specify a primary location, secondary location, etc on a search path to look for the files to link to? That way, if you move the document, you could change the location, and things would be fixed up correctly. |
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