Re: How to insert Absolute hyperlink in Word 2000 to a Network
Drive?
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:33:05 -0800
"Will" wrote:
> In teh old WORD 97, if you browsewd for a file to hyperlink eg on a
> network drive, there was a checkbox to check/uncheck if you wanted
> the hyperlink to be relative or absolute. This has gone in Word 2000
> and all such hyperlinks are inserted as relative.
> How do I make them absolute without having to type in the full path?
>
> Many Thanks, Will
In Word 2003, when you insert a hyperlink to a file on a network drive
(even a mapped share), Word uses a UNC (universal naming convention)
path. For example, if a share named 'myshare' exists on a system named
'fs01' and you want to link to a file called budget.xls in the root of
that share, the UNC path is \\fs01\myshare\budget.xls. If you have
mapped \\fs01\myshare to z:, I have not found a way to force Word
hypelinks to retain a path like z:\budget.xls. Word will automatically
replace that path with the full UNC path. This is not altogether bad,
since using a mapped drive letter in a hyperlink could cause problems.
If you decided next week to map the share to w: instead, the hyperlink
wouldn't work. More importantly, if your document is used my multiple
people in an organization and you use a mapped drive letter in the
hyperlink, the hyperlink is assuming that all staff/employees have
mapped the share to the same drive letter.
Hope that helps!
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Ronald Nissley
A+, MCP
date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:27:53 -0500
author: Ronald Nissley this will go
