Speed up access to Word documents

[Iain Hamilton]

Hi,

I have a server named \\Server that has a folder called WordDocs, that has
a load of Word documents that contain links to images in a folder called
Images.

I have remote offices that access the Word documents over a VPN using ADSL
lines and that works OK. However to speed things up I thought it would be a
good idea to make read-only copies of WordDocs and Images onto the remote
local servers. Then the users at the remote office could access the Word
documents locally when they just wanted to print them.

However when they open the local document it accesses the images from the
remote server and not the local server (because the links are stored as UNC
file names eg \\Server\Images\Image1.JPG.

The only way around this problem would seem to be to use a mapped drive (say
drive Z) to specify the location of the image files and then to point Z to
the local image folder on the remote systems and to \\Server\Images on the
central system. That means the links would be Z:Image1.jpg)

However, I read in these Newgroups that Word does not like mapped drives.

Is there another solution to my problem apart from mapped drives ?

Thanks

Iain Hamilton