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> Hi, guys...I have a collection of Word 2000 documents containing many
> links to other Word documents. I know there are programs for checking
> HTML links. However, short of converting the Word docs to HTML and
> checking that way, are there any programs that will check the links
> in a Word document?
It's not that hard to do, but you would have to write a Word macro to do it.
What it would have to do is look at each link in turn, and see if the
destination file exists that is given in the Address property of the link.
Also, if the link has a Subaddress property, open the target document and
see whether the relevant bookmark exists. It would probably be sensible when
opening the document to pick up a complete list of the bookmark names so
that subsequent checks of links to that document could be done without
opening the file for each one.
Regards
Jonathan West
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