link to text boxes fail to update

[Data Guy]

I have a document originally composed in Word 2003 which I am revising
in Word 2007. The document is primarily used to present a large
number of tables, about 120, which are written in another program and
saved as .rtf files. The .rtf is perfectly OK.

We have linked in these external text boxes but the links are not
working properly.

1) I can highlight the link, right-click, select "Update link" and I
get "Error! Not valid file name"

2) I would like to use relative file references, so that whereever I
put the document, I can update from that directory this does not work.

3) I click "Alt-F9" and convert the links to editable references to
enter the correct form. However, regardless of what I do, I cannot
create a text string which has the correct form, since no information
exists about how to do this.

4) When I move the document, I break the references. This is really
really irritating to my co-workers.

As it stands right now, I must do 120 re-inserts of files already
linked, and cannot be sure that if I do it, I will have to do it
again.

Why is this "link-to" feature so poorly debugged? Is there additional
information somewhere about using this "feature" of Word 2007?

 

[Data Guy]

I have a document originally composed in Word 2003 which I am revising
in Word 2007. The document is primarily used to present a large
number of tables, about 120, which are written in another program and
saved as .rtf files. The .rtf is perfectly OK.

We have linked in these external text boxes but the links are not
working properly.

1) I can highlight the link, right-click, select "Update link" and I
get "Error! Not valid file name"

2) I would like to use relative file references, so that whereever I
put the document, I can update from that directory this does not work.

3) I click "Alt-F9" and convert the links to editable references to
enter the correct form. However, regardless of what I do, I cannot
create a text string which has the correct form, since no information
exists about how to do this.

4) When I move the document, I break the references. This is really
really irritating to my co-workers.

As it stands right now, I must do 120 re-inserts of files already
linked, and cannot be sure that if I do it, I will have to do it
again.

Why is this "link-to" feature so poorly debugged? Is there additional
information somewhere about using this "feature" of Word 2007?

I forgot to add one question: Is there a way in Word 2007 to indicate
a location to search for files? That is, can I specify a primary
location, secondary location, etc on a search path to look for the
files to link to? That way, if you move the document, you could
change the location, and things would be fixed up correctly.