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Old 06-16-2014, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by SusieBennett View Post
It achieves something when the alternative is to have the document "blow up" on you when you try opening it in a different office location (on a different server) from the one you last saved it!
Changing it to a physical path won't fix that, either. For that, you need to use a relative path, which LINK fields don't support. To see how to implement relative paths in Word, check out the macro solution I've posted at:
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/154379-Word-Fields-and-Relative-Paths-to-External-Files
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