Object change

[Susan]

I have a problem. We have close to 1,000 documents that have other
word documents inserted into them as linked Objects (Insert, Object,
Create From File, Link to file, Display as Icon etc). The problem is
we are moving to a new file server and the server name is changing,
thus my links will no longer work unless someone goes into each
document one by one and edits each link - which is not a good solution
- too time consuming.

Does anyone know an easier way of editing the links or some massive
"find/replace" ability? It could be something like a macro or third
party solution.

Thanks,

Susan

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Susan,

There used to be a tool at mousetrax.com but I have no idea if it's
still there.

Whether this can be done "easily" with a Find/replace (in combination
with a macro) depends on 1) the version of Word and 2) whether you can
guarantee that none of the linked objects have text wrap formatting
applied.

I have a problem. We have close to 1,000 documents that have other
word documents inserted into them as linked Objects (Insert, Object,
Create From File, Link to file, Display as Icon etc). The problem is
we are moving to a new file server and the server name is changing,
thus my links will no longer work unless someone goes into each
document one by one and edits each link - which is not a good solution
- too time consuming.

Does anyone know an easier way of editing the links or some massive
"find/replace" ability? It could be something like a macro or third
party solution.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Susan]

We are using word 2000. I will have to check on the text wrapping.
basically the link looks like
\\servername1\directory1\directory2\filename and we want to change it
to \\servername2\directory1\directory2\filename

Thanks,