viewing embedded links in a word document.

[robbieg]

Hi,
A colleague has emailed me a word doc (v93) with links to other files in it.
However, when I click on the links I get errors messages saying unable to
find the file.
Is this my problem or a problem with the saving of the original file?
If so, who do we get round this please?

Many thanks in advance
Robert G.

 

[macropod]

Hi robbieg,

If the document has links to other files, as you say, then Word won't be able to find them unless the path to those files is exactly
the same on your system.

 

[RobG]

Hi,
A colleague has emailed me a word doc (v93) with links to other files in it.
However, when I click on the links I get errors messages saying unable to
find the file.
Is this my problem or a problem with the saving of the original file?
If so, who do we get round this please?

Note also that Word uses full paths, not relative, so even if you
bundle all the docs up in a zip file and send them to someone, then
they open the archive and try to view the links, they still won't work
unless the full path wherever they are put is identical to the full
path they had when the links were created.

Further, there is no easy way to edit the paths, you have to do it one
by one.

 

[macropod]

Hi Rob,

To see how to implement relative paths in Word, check out the solution I've posted at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=670027


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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Hi,
A colleague has emailed me a word doc (v93) with links to other files in it.
However, when I click on the links I get errors messages saying unable to
find the file.
Is this my problem or a problem with the saving of the original file?
If so, who do we get round this please?

Note also that Word uses full paths, not relative, so even if you
bundle all the docs up in a zip file and send them to someone, then
they open the archive and try to view the links, they still won't work
unless the full path wherever they are put is identical to the full
path they had when the links were created.

Further, there is no easy way to edit the paths, you have to do it one
by one.

 

[robbieg]

Thank you all.
We have got over this by embeding the files rather than linking to them. It
makes the final word document huge (but less so in V2007) but it works as
intended.

Thank you for all your responses.

RG

Hi Rob,

To see how to implement relative paths in Word, check out the solution I've posted at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=670027


--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Hi,
A colleague has emailed me a word doc (v93) with links to other files in it.
However, when I click on the links I get errors messages saying unable to
find the file.
Is this my problem or a problem with the saving of the original file?
If so, who do we get round this please?

Note also that Word uses full paths, not relative, so even if you
bundle all the docs up in a zip file and send them to someone, then
they open the archive and try to view the links, they still won't work
unless the full path wherever they are put is identical to the full
path they had when the links were created.

Further, there is no easy way to edit the paths, you have to do it one
by one.