Links Management

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Dale Wood said:
I've got a deliverable Word file that has a growing number of links.

1) Is there a good way to manage links so that I can bulk change them or set
them to a new path?
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Using VBA you can iterate the Hyperlinks collection, checking and setting
the address, location, text to display, etc. Not much help if you don't do
VBA.
2) Can the links be verified (beside just clicking on them) to see if they
are valid or point to the document they are supposed to?
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Ultimately that's the only way to verify any URL. Using VBA as above you can
ping the address which is quicker than retrieving the entire resource.
3) Can links to documents be specific along a relative path? It seems Word
keeps changing these paths to the full path name. As a result, it is very
difficult to store these files at a new location.
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This is deceptive. Word always *displays* the full path to a linked
document, but if the path was originally provided as a relative path,
internally Word retains the relation. If you move the documents, Word
displays the new path as it should.
 
I've got a deliverable Word file that has a growing number of links.

1) Is there a good way to manage links so that I can bulk change them or set
them to a new path?

2) Can the links be verified (beside just clicking on them) to see if they
are valid or point to the document they are supposed to?

3) Can links to documents be specific along a relative path? It seems Word
keeps changing these paths to the full path name. As a result, it is very
difficult to store these files at a new location.
 
With respect to 1, if you view field codes, you can use search and replace
to modify the paths.

We routinely edit the links of all linked images to make them relative, so
that when the document is moved to a new location they still work. This is
a habit we started out of necessity in Word 97; we still do it in Word 2000,
but haven't verified that it is needed.
 
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