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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2000 8:39 am Post subject:

OK - has anyone ever seen this before and / or figured out how to fix it?

We use MS Office 2000 in our department, and we do a lot of e-mailing documents back and forth to each other. These documents often include hyperlinks to other documents in our share. The hyperlink is always something like \\server1\share$\general_bullshit\blah_blah_blah.doc

BUT - here's the weird part - when you send the document as an attachment, the hyperlink changes to c:\blah_blah_blah.doc

Happens every time.

Anyone?

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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2000 12:31 pm Post subject:

Did you reboot? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH [ Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2000 12:39 pm Post subject:

just kidding...lemme take a look and see what I can find out.

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Cat Chaser Joined: 24 Oct 2000 Posts: 951 Location: USA

could it be that those hyperlinks were relative to the document and not the shared drive some how?

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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2000 1:45 pm Post subject:

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Did you reboot? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

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Good one spot, you dickhead. Big Smile

(LMAO, by the way)

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could it be that those hyperlinks were relative to the document and not the shared drive some how?

I'm not sure what you mean, starsky. We all have the same mapped shares, all have access to them. If you send a shortcut to the document instead of actually attaching the document in an e-mail, all is OK. It's just that when you send it as an attachment, the hyperlink changes.

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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2000 3:35 pm Post subject:

Couldn't resist it!

I tried duplicating it, but I only have office 97 where I was. I also looked on MS support site Sad Smile

with no luck. I'll try next time I get Office 2000 around me.

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 7:33 am Post subject:

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I tried duplicating it, but I only have office 97 where I was. I also looked on MS support site with no luck. I'll try next time I get Office 2000 around me.

Yeah, I checked MS support too.

Hyperlink stayed the same in 97 document? Hmmmmmmmmm

Off in search of an old machine...

Confused

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2000 1:35 pm Post subject:

OK, Spot. I found an old machine with Office 97 on it and created a document with a hyperlink in it and e-mailed it to myself. Link was fine. Created a duplicate of the document with Office 2k, link changed to C:\Temp\blah.doc

Hmmmmmmmmmm

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Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

it's actually simple. (I am guessing this happens when you try to email a doc you have been working on.. as an attachment, not one that you specifically select from the network via UNC ? ?)

if you are not the "owner" of the document on the network, Office ( and by extension outlook2k) will open a "temp" copy of the doc(locally) for working on it. If you attempt to "re-use" the document it attaches the temp copy on your HD because you ARE the owner of it

the same thing happens when you open documents that you RECEIVE as email attachemnts

of course, I could be wrong ?

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