[Michael]

All the hyperlink addresses in a document changed when the document was
opened. Why did this happen and how do I get the addresses back to the
original value?

I use a Word document to hold a list of hyperlinks to several other files on
in a subfolder. (All the links have addresses in context of the same folder
and subfolders; not across folders or drives.) I kept a copy of the document
in a separate directory as a back up. When I copied the backup into the
original working folder where the file was created, the hyperlinks all
changed to a root to the archive folder.

1. I create a link on a document that points to another file in a sub
directory and save the document to the root.
Master Link File is in c:\process\
A supporting document is in c:\process\artifact
Link in the master link file is c:\process\artifact\xyz.doc (good)

2. I make a copy of the process folder and its contents as a back up. I
rename the backup to
c:\process 20071029

3. Now I need to retrieve the back up of the master link file, so I copy the
master link file from c:\process 20071029 to c:\process

4. When the file is opened in c:\process, all the links are hard coded to
c:\process 20071029 (very bad)


Since the links were created while the master link file was in c:\process,
and the recovered file was opened in c:\process - how did the links get
changed from ..\process\artifacts\xyz.doc to ..\process
20071029\artifacts\xyz.doc?

There are many hundreds of links and since the hyperlink edit dialog takes
several minutes to open (frustrating) and several more minutes to navigate
down one folder (even more frustrating) for each correction, it will take
days maybe weeks to fix the addresses.

Under what circumstances does Word feel it is necessary to alter the
hyperlink address? How do I prevent it from happening?