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Subject:Re: linking bmps in Word From:Howard Kaikow <kaikow -at- STANDARDS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:06:52 -0500
Depending on how you are doing the "links", Word may offer an option to use
the relative file path. Choose that option and you get what you want.
At 11:52 1/27/99 -0600, Shawn Brown Knoernschild wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm emerging from lurk mode because I'm at the end of my rope. I'm updating
>a training guide that includes a lot of linked screen captures. The guide
>and the graphics are in the same directory and I want the source file names
>for the links to be within the directory instead of referring to the entire
>network path. I frequently put this guide on CD and the links stay intact if
>the source file names are within the folder. Word is giving me a hard time
>because, seemingly arbitrarily, the source file name sometimes includes the
>entire network path and sometimes just the intra-directory path that I want.
>Has anyone else had similar problems? I would appreciate any recommendations
>for a solution. Thank you in advance.
>
>Shawn Brown-K
>
>Penta Technologies, Inc.
>414.780.2435
>sbk -at- pentatechinc -dot- com <mailto:sbk -at- pentatechinc -dot- com>
>Views expressed are mine and do not necessarily represent those of Penta
>Technologies, Inc.
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