Is there no cure for the "non-relative link" bug?

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Doug

I've read a few threads about this problem, but didn't find any solutions.
Word 2000 seems to have a nasty habit of changing all graphics links from
relative to absolute, even though "update links" is not selected in options.
This little flaw makes an otherwise awesome web page editor all but useless
to me. I can't believe there is no workaround -- or more appropriately:
BUGFIX -- for this problem. HELP!!! :)

TIA for any suggestions...

Doug
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

The one suggestion I've seen that seems to offer promise is the idea of
putting the path in a QUOTE field. Have you tried that?
 
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Doug

Hi Suzanne,

I just verified that quotes make no difference in my situation. If I open an
html document, then save it, all graphics links are changed to absolute
links, and additionally, an id field is added for each graphic:
id="_x0000_i1029" src="file:///C:/Adocs/Aweb/norsk.gif"

How sad! The strange thing is that it this does not happen ALL the time. I
have successfully used Word to edit web pages in the past with no problem.
But now it seems that, no matter what I do, the links are changed.

The only workaround I can see is to assign absolute links which point to my
webserver, but this is not a viable solution for me. I need pages which are
portable.

Isn't Microsoft set on being the "Master of the Web"? How can they overlook
such a fatal flaw in their wordprocessor? Does anyone know if this problem
is corrected in Word XP?

TIA,
Doug
 
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Doug

Well, this is kind of funny. I just selected "update links on save" in web
options, and the now the links are working fine. Ah ha!!

I had read in some thread that this should *not* be selected (which sounded
logical to me). Apparently Word assigns temporary local links for graphics
when they are stored on your machine. The "update links on save" option
tells Word to *restore* the links to their original form.

Who knew. :)

Doug
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Well, drat! As you say, who knew? I'll have to try that. But I think you
misunderstood my suggestion, which was not to put the path in quotes but to
use a QUOTE field for the path, that is, something like { INCLUDEPICTURE \d
{ QUOTE "\\BottomLine_files\\image001.jpg" } } I'm not sure what the actual
form of the relative link is supposed to be, but that would be the general
idea.
 
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