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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...anagement/brow se_frm/thread/f27a2140b8c63ac7/7cd4eec78e76bf8b On 6/21/05 1:27 PM, "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: I'm guessing here, but I was just made aware of a bug that sounds relevant, where, if I recall right, Word measures relative paths *not* from where the document is stored, but from the location that Word currently recognizes as the active directory. Now, when you open up the doc, that's all fine, because the location of the doc is the active directory. But if you then go searching for another doc, that becomes the active directory, and then your relative links are not right anymore. Then, in ToolsOptions, General, Web Options....Files, there's a checkbox that tells Word to update your relative links on Save for you. If that's checked, then Word can change your links because, as above, it thinks the relative links need to match some other location. So see if unchecking that box helps prevent changes. On 6/21/05 8:12 AM, "CroiX" wrote: Greetings: We have a number of Word documents which serve as an Index for opening a number of other files. These index files contain nothing but relative hyperlinks which point to the other documents. From time-to-time, we have had trouble with an index file, that used to work just fine, would suddenly fail to open any of the hyperlinks and very quickly announce: "Cannot open the specified file." We have verified that the file has not been modified, since the time at which it was created and did work. When we use the ALT + F9 command, the hyperlinks are revealed correctly as in the following example: "{ HYPERLINK "../../125/12560366.DOC" }." However, when we right-click the hyperlink, and choose to edit it, the Edit Hyperlink dialog will reveal the path like this: "../../../SHARED/GLOBAL/ENGDRAW/125/12560366.DOC" (which is obviously wrong--and does not work). Does anyone know how we can correct this problem and prevent it from happening in the future? Thanks, Jerry |
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