Force hyperlinks absolute (Word 2003)

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Greetings loungers

How can I force hyperlinks to remain absolute within Word 2003.

Regards

Geof Richardson

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Does this help?
– Select Tools | Options…
– Activate the General tab.
– Click Web Options…
– Activate the Files tab.
– Clear the “Updates links on save” check box.
– Click OK (twice).

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Thank you very much.
That problem is solved now.
Geof

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Hello Hans
I spoke to soon.
Inserting a hyperlink eith via Field or Insert Hyperlink still generates a relative path.
Initially the link created was absolute …
Subsequently new links have gone back to relative.
The altered options as you suggested remain OFF.

Thanks anyway.

Geof

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I hope someone else knows how to get what you want. I don’t have Word 2003 myself, so I can’t experiment.

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The problem of Word changing internal hyperlinks (on your own computer or intranet) to a relative address began at least as early as version 2000 and has been bemoaned in past threads. Some posts that might be worth reviewing:

Update paths in INCLUDETEXT et al. (Word 2000/XP) (macro solution)

post 435111 – create a hyperlink base so that relative links at least are relative to the correct thing

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Hello team
Your help is really appreciated.

I think that by setting the hyperlink base property to “.”
all my hyperlinks to local drives appear absolute c:whateversomewheredocname.doc
links to my network appear computernamefolderfoldeerdocument

Importantly my code can loop thru the hyperlinks and locate the docs.

Thank you for your help.

Geof

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