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Old 02-12-2014, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisBrewster View Post
I like the simplicity of putting the shared document and the document of inserted text in the same folder, so that no pathname is needed. But I am running into the issue of Word's treatment of relative paths, getting "Invalid file name" some of the time. I've read the explanation, affected by which document was opened most recently and which folder is considered current. But this is hard to understand, and I have to make it easy for the other company. Is there a simple way to explain how to make the relative path (that is, no path specified) work correctly?
I have not suggested omitting the path; what I have suggested is using a FILENAME field to generate it. If you simply omit the path, Word is liable to add one of its own that sticks when the folder is changed. You won't see that in the field code, but it'll be buried behind the scenes in Word's metacode. The FILENAME field takes care of that.
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