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02:41 01-Jun-06 / Word Problem / Windows XP Help an Support forum
If this is not the right forum, hope someone re-directs me.
Have a lot of folders and shortcuts to folders and files in my very large
home-grown
'HELP' and 'PROGRAMS' database folders.
Because the shortcuts (there are MANY) take up a lot of disk space (1 full
cluster
each for just 1 low-byte shortcut), I thought I'd save some space by cutting
& pasting them all into a single Word document 'INDEX' file. The single
file, then,
in effect, replaces something like 1000 shortcuts.
That seems to work fine - except that I found it impossible to 'sort' them
alphabetically, later, either in or out of a Table.
Converting them to 'Hyperlinks' (which, however, retained the frames around
the
original "xxxxx.lnk" shortcut 'pictures'), didn't help any either - except
it's a bit
more convenient and faster to single-click the 'hyperlinks' than the
shortcuts
(double-click plus click OK for warning message).
I am not sure, yet, how much space this expedient will save me but, in
either case,
it seems to me to also be less of a strain on the hard drive to handle one
instead
of a thousand files; plus, it gives me a very convenient and useful Index.
Main thing, 'though, it would take me like forever to re-create each
shortcut from
scratch in the form of a 'pure' hyperlink directly in a Word doc. Even if I
did,
I probably still would not be able to automatically sort them.
Another, lengthy alternative might be to pre-create inactive links in a text
file,
sort them in DOS, convert the file to a Word Doc and then painstakingly
create a
hyperlink for each entry.
Having presented my (1) objective and (2) problem here, I'm curious to know
if there is any viable solution for either.
Appreciate any suggestions.
If this is not the right forum, hope someone re-directs me.
Have a lot of folders and shortcuts to folders and files in my very large
home-grown
'HELP' and 'PROGRAMS' database folders.
Because the shortcuts (there are MANY) take up a lot of disk space (1 full
cluster
each for just 1 low-byte shortcut), I thought I'd save some space by cutting
& pasting them all into a single Word document 'INDEX' file. The single
file, then,
in effect, replaces something like 1000 shortcuts.
That seems to work fine - except that I found it impossible to 'sort' them
alphabetically, later, either in or out of a Table.
Converting them to 'Hyperlinks' (which, however, retained the frames around
the
original "xxxxx.lnk" shortcut 'pictures'), didn't help any either - except
it's a bit
more convenient and faster to single-click the 'hyperlinks' than the
shortcuts
(double-click plus click OK for warning message).
I am not sure, yet, how much space this expedient will save me but, in
either case,
it seems to me to also be less of a strain on the hard drive to handle one
instead
of a thousand files; plus, it gives me a very convenient and useful Index.
Main thing, 'though, it would take me like forever to re-create each
shortcut from
scratch in the form of a 'pure' hyperlink directly in a Word doc. Even if I
did,
I probably still would not be able to automatically sort them.
Another, lengthy alternative might be to pre-create inactive links in a text
file,
sort them in DOS, convert the file to a Word Doc and then painstakingly
create a
hyperlink for each entry.
Having presented my (1) objective and (2) problem here, I'm curious to know
if there is any viable solution for either.
Appreciate any suggestions.