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I'm creating a master document with several sub documents.
Word auto-creates the whole path as part of the URL ~ I dont want that, I want the sub-documents to be relative to the master wherever they are. For example they start life in c:\word\somefolder Later they might live on the network for a while, concurrently they might be saved to a CD. I have found the hyperlink baseline however that does not help when burning to a CD where my CD is the D: drive and theirs is the F: drive! I want a function "Just look in the same place as the master document" |
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Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that will be corrupt soon. See http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the Master Document feature and workarounds. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm for more information on what goes wrong, and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm for ideas on how to salvage what you can. See http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...masterdocs.doc for Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very carefully. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "BigPaul" wrote in message ... I'm creating a master document with several sub documents. Word auto-creates the whole path as part of the URL ~ I dont want that, I want the sub-documents to be relative to the master wherever they are. For example they start life in c:\word\somefolder Later they might live on the network for a while, concurrently they might be saved to a CD. I have found the hyperlink baseline however that does not help when burning to a CD where my CD is the D: drive and theirs is the F: drive! I want a function "Just look in the same place as the master document" |
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Hi ?B?QmlnUGF1bA==?=,
Later versions of Word will do this by default, even what you SEE in Word is a full path. Have you tried moving the entire set of documents to a different location, to see if the master still finds the sub documents? I'm creating a master document with several sub documents. Word auto-creates the whole path as part of the URL ~ I dont want that, I want the sub-documents to be relative to the master wherever they are. For example they start life in c:\word\somefolder Later they might live on the network for a while, concurrently they might be saved to a CD. I have found the hyperlink baseline however that does not help when burning to a CD where my CD is the D: drive and theirs is the F: drive! I want a function "Just look in the same place as the master document" Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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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I have a word document and all of the hyperlink files in the same directory.
However, I had to move all of the files to a different directory and in the process, all of the links were changed to a directory in "documents & settings". How can I cause an automatic update to reference the files in the same directory as the document? I have over a hundred files referenced in the document. Thanks in advance ... "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?QmlnUGF1bA==?=, Later versions of Word will do this by default, even what you SEE in Word is a full path. Have you tried moving the entire set of documents to a different location, to see if the master still finds the sub documents? I'm creating a master document with several sub documents. Word auto-creates the whole path as part of the URL ~ I dont want that, I want the sub-documents to be relative to the master wherever they are. For example they start life in c:\word\somefolder Later they might live on the network for a while, concurrently they might be saved to a CD. I have found the hyperlink baseline however that does not help when burning to a CD where my CD is the D: drive and theirs is the F: drive! I want a function "Just look in the same place as the master document" Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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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Hi ?B?TWFydmlu?=,
I have a word document and all of the hyperlink files in the same directory. However, I had to move all of the files to a different directory and in the process, all of the links were changed to a directory in "documents & settings". How can I cause an automatic update to reference the files in the same directory as the document? I have over a hundred files referenced in the document. If I'm reading your answer correctly, you're saying that Word automatically recognized, and was able to open, the set of files when you moved it to a new folder: "I had to move all of the files to a different directory and in the process, all of the links were changed to a directory in "documents & settings". So Word is doing what it needs to do: adjusting the path automatically when you move the entire set of files. There is NO WAY to manually change the hyperlink to point to this or that folder. The hyperlink is ALWAYS generated by Word, and can only be generated by Word. Later versions of Word will do this by default, even what you SEE in Word is a full path. Have you tried moving the entire set of documents to a different location, to see if the master still finds the sub documents? I'm creating a master document with several sub documents. Word auto-creates the whole path as part of the URL ~ I dont want that, I want the sub-documents to be relative to the master wherever they are. For example they start life in c:\word\somefolder Later they might live on the network for a while, concurrently they might be saved to a CD. I have found the hyperlink baseline however that does not help when burning to a CD where my CD is the D: drive and theirs is the F: drive! I want a function "Just look in the same place as the master document" Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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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