hyperlinks to intranet

[Guest]

Hello!
I am creating a presentation in PPT which i am trying to link to the company
intranet so that others can monitor my progress with the manual i am
producing. When i create a hyperlink to a word document which looks like
this:-

\\server\Company\Current Operations\New Operations Manual\Quality Assurance
Chapter\QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS - new.doc

it automatically changes after being saved and becomes this:-

/../Quality%20Assurance%20Chapter/QA%20GUIDANCE%20FOR%20TEAM%20LEADERS%20-%20Ennis.doc

and i am thus unable to access the link from the company intranet to the
specified file (which is saved from word onto the company shared drive).
Does anyone know if there is a way i can prevent the link from changing in
this way?
Thank you in advance!
Liz

 

[Michael Koerner]

Probably because it may exceed the path length criteria which is a max of 128
characters including spaces (which you should avoid if at all possible)

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Hello!
I am creating a presentation in PPT which i am trying to link to the company
intranet so that others can monitor my progress with the manual i am
producing. When i create a hyperlink to a word document which looks like
this:-

\\server\Company\Current Operations\New Operations Manual\Quality Assurance
Chapter\QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS - new.doc

it automatically changes after being saved and becomes this:-

/../Quality%20Assurance%20Chapter/QA%20GUIDANCE%20FOR%20TEAM%20LEADERS%20-%20Enn
is.doc

and i am thus unable to access the link from the company intranet to the
specified file (which is saved from word onto the company shared drive).
Does anyone know if there is a way i can prevent the link from changing in
this way?
Thank you in advance!
Liz

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello!
I am creating a presentation in PPT which i am trying to link to the company
intranet so that others can monitor my progress with the manual i am
producing. When i create a hyperlink to a word document which looks like
this:-

\\server\Company\Current Operations\New Operations Manual\Quality Assurance
Chapter\QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS - new.doc

it automatically changes after being saved and becomes this:-

/../Quality%20Assurance%20Chapter/QA%20GUIDANCE%20FOR%20TEAM%20LEADERS%20-%20Ennis.doc

and i am thus unable to access the link from the company intranet to the
specified file (which is saved from word onto the company shared drive).
Does anyone know if there is a way i can prevent the link from changing in
this way?

The %20s are html-encoded spaces and should do no harm.

As to the odd path truncation, the first thing I'd check is File, Properties, Summary
tab and have a look at "Hyperlink base". Delete whatever's in that and try adding the
link again.

 

[Guest]

Try this....

Tools, Options... General Tab.

Click on Web Options... then Files Tab.

Uncheck 'update links on save'