Hyperlinks

[dollyhog]

I maintain an intranet used extensively throughout my office. The
workstations use Windows and Office 2000, but I have upgraded my machine to
Office 2003/XP. I find Office 2003 has some very good features which I do not
want to lose. However, the hyperlinks I build in 2003 do not work on the 2000
machines - the first part of the address disappears as I build the link. I
can force it to appear by retyping it in, otherwise it appears as
/..../...../etc. I am having to use vnc or remote desktop to older machines
just to build hyperlinks. ANY IDEAS anyone?

 

[John Cello]

DH:

Assuming your pages are being served by an IIS server, it shouldn't matter
what type of PC is opening the intranet page. If you're editing the site live
on the web server, or locally then publishing it (the preferred method) what
you describe shouldn't be occuring. However, since it is, you can easily go
into Code view and replace the .../.../page.htm in the <a> tags with the full
path to your server. To get this, just open the page in IE and see what it
says in the address bar.

Hope this helps.

John Cello
www.johncelloconsulting.com

 

[dollyhog]

Thanks - yes it seems I can force the issue by typing, rather than browsing,
but the strange thing too is that the slashes are backwards in 2000 and
forwards in 2003. And that the links built in 2000, don't seem to want to
work in 2003. I use word to edit my documents, then save them as htm on the
intranet folders. Perhaps if I try directly editing the htm, it may make a
difference??
dh