Hyperlink dies on save

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In word 2000 on our intranet hyperlinks to documents in other directories on our server worked. We upgraded to Office XP and now won't and we get an error message that the address is invalid. We I redo the links they work. Once I save them the front part of the path is lost. does anybody know how to deal with this? I've thied typing in the path as opposed to browsing and selecting the document, but get the same result. save kills the front of the path name.

Example:
my document is fabindex.doc in our filer1\FAB\ directory
hyperlinks like to Filer1\FAB\Fabforms\Improvement Proposal.doc wor just fine
Now, with XP, hyperlinks like Filer1\Apps\FORMS\TEMPLATES\Improvement Proposal.doc don't work after saves because the Filler1 get replaced with ..\..\Apps\FORMS\TEMPLATES\Improvement Proposal.doc which won't work.
 
Thanks to Cindy M in one of her response to another similar question I got this answer which works!!!
Turning off the "Update link on save" toggle in the Options/general/web options/file tab solve the hyperlink death problem i had.

Thanks, Cindy!

FabMan

Condy's response:

Subject: Re: HyperLink Path Changes (Word XP - Windows 2000) 11/8/2003 1:01 PM PST

By: Cindy M -WordMVP- (search by author) In: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement


Hi Steve,

I'm not sure if this will help, but try:
Tools/Options/General/Web Options/Files and make sure the
checkbox to update file paths on save is turned OFF.
I am having a hyperlink issue in MS Word XP - 2002).
(Windows 2000). Users create a Word XP document and add a
hyperlink to an absolute /server/path/file name. Users
save, close out the document and reopen. The hyperlink
path within the newly created document changes to a
default relative path. How do I prevent the changing of
hyperlink absolute paths?
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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