[Rick E]

I called in an MS case. The solution was to turn off "Update Links On Save"
buried in Tools/Options/General tab/Web Options button/Files tab.

"Rick E" wrote:

Whener I enter a hyperlink into a Word 2003 SP3 to an external file on our
server like \\server\share\file.name it removes the \\server and turns it
into something like ..\..\..\share\file.name which is fine by me but it then
no longer works. I know its trying to make a relative path but I need it to
stop changing it (I tried placing a file: prefix on it but still same result)
or have it change to something that at least works.