Maintaining Word Hyperlinks

[Ed Gregory <edgregory -at- HOME -dot- NET>]

        I'm working on a project where we are beginning to make extensive use of
hyperlinks for online MS Word documentation.  The basic facts are:
        * Almost everybody in the organization worldwide - thousands of
individuals - has MS Office Pro on their desktop and access to the central
WAN, wherein the documentation directories reside.
        * We control the structure of the WAN directories, down to the root level,
in which our linking documents reside
        * We have been asked to link to documents we are not creating and which
reside in directories over which we do not exercise control
        * Even our control could change if a senior manager leaves and the
replacement wants to establish a new directory structure

        We are using absolute addresses in our hyperlinks, using UCN versus drive
letter mapping, etc.
        It's been a while since I've done Web pages (since before the days of
stylesheets), but I read often about software to help Web masters maintain
their hyperlink structures.

        My (hopefully) simple question is this:
        Is there low-tech, low-energy package or methodology for maintaining
LAN/WAN-based hyperlinks?

        I've toured Microsft site and Techwriter archives, to no avail.

        Thanks in advance.







Ed Gregory
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