Re: Relative Hyperlinks

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Hi Quin,

Word can open MHT files it opens, as they're encoded to let IE and Word know what app they were created in, by default (Check to see
if there's an IE or Word/IE icon on the .mht files in Windows Explorer.

In some scenarios you're correct, Word will adjust the entries but, be sure you've tried both settings for update links in
Tools=>Options=>General=>[Web Options]
to try to preserve the relative links. In some cases its use will seem a bit backwards.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903163/en-us?FR=1

The relative values in the hyperlinks can also be affected by where you open the document in relation to the
settings in Tools=>Options=>File Locations


The basic usage target of Word web documents was in a corporate environment/intranet where the issue is often one where people move
documents around and with relative links when someone opens a moved document none of the linked content is found. Relative links
are also unsupported in some scenarios where the free Microsoft Word viewer app is involved to view the files.

For public facing web pages MS Word's sister app (MS Office Front Page, well at least through 2003 <g>) is the app targeted to that
functionallity.

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<<"Quin" <quin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eQ7YKngqGHA.2164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Funny, Word created the .MHT file.

In my original post, I didn't want Word to update links, I wanted it to leave them alone, as relative hyperlinks.

A relative hyperlink, like ../Another.Doc, would work fine. This seems to me to be just another case of Word "fixing" something
that wasn't broken. >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
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