James I found this in the "HELP" menu. I hope it helps, I got it to work in
a test document. Good luck....
Use this procedure when you want to set a hyperlink base (hyperlink base:
When a relative link is based on a path you specify (the first part of the
path that is shared by the file containing the hyperlink and the destination
file), that path is the hyperlink base.) for all the hyperlinks (hyperlink:
Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a
location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an
intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP
sites.) or URLs (Uniform Resource Locator (URL): An address that specifies a
protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) and a location of an object, document, World
Wide Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet, for
example: http://www.microsoft.com/.) in a document — for example, when you
are creating a document for your company's intranet, and all the links are
going to the same main location.
- Open the document for which you want to set a hyperlink base.
- On the File menu, click Properties, and then click the Summary tab.
- In the Hyperlink base box, type or paste the path you want to use for all
the hyperlinks you create in this document.
*Note: You can override the hyperlink base by typing the full address for
the hyperlink in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
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Bubblehead
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"James" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Is there a way to update the source file information for all of the links
> within a word document (pointing to an excel file) at once? I know how to
> manually do it for each link but this is very time consuming and laborious.
> I am trying to create multiple templates in word that will draw information
> (ie name and address) from an excel file that is dedicated to each individual
> person (mail merge wont work for what I am doing). For the templates to be
> effective, I will save the excel file and all associated word docs to a
> separate folder (while preserving the original templates) thus breaking all
> of the links or having them point to the wrong file. Is there an easy way
> around this? Please let me know.
>
>
> Thank you,
> James
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