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[JamesH]

I have a series of documents I've burned to a c.d. with a master document that has hyperlinks to the others. The hyperlinks work fine before & after burning the c.d. on my pc. However, when the professor that I'm completing the project for puts the c.d. on his Mac at home, the hyperlinks do not work. I've completed four c.d.s for him and three of them work. What could I have done on the other c.d. Is there something I should be doing when I insert the hyperlinks or is this a problem on the Mac end of things?

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day JamesH <[email protected]>,

Alt+F9 your doc and check that the links are all relative. Terms like
D://path are bad - I might not have CD set to D! If all that's OK,
then its a mac prob. I don't know if master documents are supported by
the mac word or not.


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[JamesH]

Steve - thanks for your help, I didn't know the Alt+F9 entry, but kept double checking all of the links to confirm that they were valid - I think it is a Mac issue!

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Crossposting to a macword group for extra input--master documents are as
supported on the Mac as for WinWord. Since the first 3 CDs worked fine,
hard to tell what could be the problem. Did you ask your prof if he changed
anything on his computer recently? Did you try making the CD again to see
if a second try would work?

Alt-F9 shows the actual text of the link--just because they work on your
computer doesn't mean they will be portable on a computer where the filepath
is different. Compare the text of the working links to the nonworking CD.

DM

 

[Hylton Boothroyd]

Crossposting to a macword group for extra input--master documents are as
supported on the Mac as for WinWord.

Since the OP seems to be short of suggestions, this might just possibly
help.

In the context of receiving a private highly-structured word-sourced
web-archive on CD from a PC, I found in Mac OS 9.2 that
- hyperlinks to files in the same directory, or to sub-directories
of that directory one level down, had no problems,
- hyperlinks to all other files failed because all partial paths to
them needed a path separator symbol, and the symbol used was
"\" (in HTML an invalid symbol) instead of "/".

Of course, in my case the hyperlinks were between HTML-based web pages
in a web-browser. But it was the operating system that was jibbing, not
the three different browser applications I tried. And the structure of
a hyperlink is a universal standard.

Carelessness in the PC software? Intended nuisance? Who knows?