Absolute hyperlinks without losing local hyperlinks! 2nd attempt

[FrequentWordie]

The problem is if I set the Hyperlink Base in Files | Properties, then the
Word generated hyperlinks to heading from the TOC does not work. I described
this in my last reply. Is there a workaround to this issue?

 

[Paulo]

The problem is the Excel limit of 219 caracteres.
My team had links as R:\myexcel.xls inside its MS Office 2003 documents.
Everything went well.

But when we installed the Office Service Pack 3, the Office now
automatically translate to
\\madomaine\myshare\myfolder1\myfolder2\a lot of folders\foder n\myexcel.xls

What a nigthmare. The Windows is not able to open the Excel files.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Try unchecking tools > options > general > web options > files > update
links on save.

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[Kees]

Voila! I've spent hours repairing broken links in a long Word 2007 document
that was saved on SharePoint server. Here's where I found the selection box
that was probably causing the problem:
1. In the Word document, click the colored circle at the top left.
2. At the bottom of the drop-down menu that appears, click Word Options.
3. In the left column, click Advanced.
4. Scroll to the end of the window and click the Web Options button.
5. Click the Files tab.
6. De-select the "Update links on save" option.
7. Click OK to close the windows and go celebrate!

Now I'm wondering if there is a way to make this the default so that I don't
have to do it on every document.

 

[Kees]

It looks like the steps that I list above do make this the default for all
your Word documents, so you might need to do some repair of old files but the
links should remain as you want them in new files.