Emailed file hyperlink no longer works

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Peter

Good day everyone.

I have searched Google, Jeeves and this forum and can't seem to find an
answer to this. I apologize if it is duplicated as I see this could be a
very common problem.

When I create hyperlinks in either Excel (2000) or Word (2000) using the
insert hyperlink icon, I select the file option...navigate to the file and
pick it and everything works within the file. When I email that file, it
changes the address of the hyperlink to go to c:\documents and
setttings\....\OLKA\filename, which obviously doesn't work. How do I avoid
that issue and keep the legitimate file address? I don't have any option or
checkbox to make the hyperlink absolute and actually was thinking that by
putting in the full address, that was making it absolute. Links are pointing
to drives that are mapped the same across our network and the email tool is
Outlook (2000).
 
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Tony Jollans

I believe if you enter the full UNC path and name it will be treated as
absolute. Alternatively put a hyperlink base (File > Properties > Summary
tab) so that it is relative to a fixed place rather than a movable document
location.
 
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Peter

Tony,

Thank you for the prompt reply. I don't know what a UNC path is, so please
help on that one. Also, I found the hyperlink base and am wondering, can
more than one can be entered and if so, how should they be entered?
 
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Tony Jollans

Hi Peter,

A UNC path is in the format ...

\\ServerName\VolumeName\Directory\On\Volume\File.doc

If you have mapped network drives you should be able to see the server and
volume names are from the mapping.

You can only enter a single hyperlink base - nothing else really makes
sense.
 
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Peter

Thank you again for the reply.

We did have the UNC as you had mentioned, but it still moved the links to
'documents and settings'.

Also, on the multiple links...wouldn't it make sense if you had more that
one folder you were pulling links from (which happens to be the case for this
file)? Being able to put a hiearchy in that properties field certainly makes
sense to me (i.e. look in a first, then b, then c)....logical
yes.....possible or plausible may be a different story.

Have a great day.

Peter
 
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Tony Jollans

I see what you mean about multiple bases - yes, that could work - but that
isn't how it is :)

I'm sorry that UNC paths don't help you - I thought they forced absolute
addresses. Does putting a base of, say, "C:" (or any drive that doesn't have
linked files on) help at all?
 
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