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Subject:RE: Relative paths in Word links From:"David Downing" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:38:03 -0500
Responding a bit belatedly to this, I'm not sure you CAN create a
relative path. It was one of the things that always made linked
graphics a pain for us. Whenever we moved the document and associated
graphics files to a drive with a different name, we had to redo the
links.
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From: Bostjan Chargo [mailto:bostjan -dot- cargo -at- hermes -dot- si]
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Relative paths in Word links
Hi!
I have a problem inserting linked Word document into another Word
document.
I'd like to insert it as a linked object, as formatted text (not as a
picture) and use relative paths (the linked document in one directory up
the
directory tree). Word automatically creates an absolute path to the
linked
document. As I've put the documents under the CVS (concurent versioning)
control, I must use a relative path instead the absolute one. Now, when
I
manually change the path string in the link's field code to contain the
relative path, the linked document does not work anymore when I save and
reopen the main document. I get the "Error! Not a valid link." message
instead.
I'm using the double backslashes in the path string as required.
Does anyone have a solution proposal?
Regards,
Bostjan
technical writer
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