Copying Word document hyperlinks

[Guest]

Hi, hope someone can help. I am trying to find a way of copying a word
document complete with approx. 60 hyperlinks to other documents onto a CD
without having to go through and edit each and every hyperlink individually
to redirect them to d: drive rather than c: drive. I am sure there must be a
way to shange all of them at once but damned if i can find out how. Any
suggestions very gratefully received.
Thanks,
Dave Le Feuvre.

 

[Guest]

Hi Dave,

You could try using Word's Find and Replace to find c: and replace with d:

The quickest way would be to use the <Replace All> option to change in one
fell swoop. **However ... I would make a copy of the original document first
and try this out on the copy. Put the copy on the CD-ROM with all the
documents it links to and ... there you go. If it doesn't work at least you
will still have the original document in its untouched condition.

There may be a more sophisticated solution but here's a start for you. Have
a go and see.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Unfortunately that will not change the hyperlink, only the hyperlink prompt.
To change the hyperlink you must toggle the display to show the field
construction (ALT+F9) first then run the replace and finally toggle back the
display.

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[Guest]

Graham,
Thanks very much for the help. I thought originally that you had solved it
but unfortunately the program is still looking for a file labelled e:\\*.* -
even though it is now doing this on the d:\\ drive (i.e. when I checked in
the Edit Hyperlink command it is still giving the address as e:\\*.* rather
than d:\\). Any further suggestions???

 

[PopS]

It sounds like all you have to do is recreate the same
directory/folder structure on the CD as you have on your hard
drive, plus use relative linking. From the look of one post you
know about relative linking, so all that's left is to recreate
the same folder structure.
It might be as easy as just copying the whole top level folder
of the web site to the CD unless it contains a lot of other
useless data to the web site.

HTH,
Pop



message
: Hi, hope someone can help. I am trying to find a way of copying
a word
: document complete with approx. 60 hyperlinks to other documents
onto a CD
: without having to go through and edit each and every hyperlink
individually
: to redirect them to d: drive rather than c: drive. I am sure
there must be a
: way to shange all of them at once but damned if i can find out
how. Any
: suggestions very gratefully received.
: Thanks,
: Dave Le Feuvre.