Thanks for everything.

A)

The macro would serve the purpose of auto-updating and auto-saving the links for convenience purposes, e.g.:

Sub AutoOpen()
With Options
.UpdateFieldsAtPrint = True
.UpdateLinksAtPrint = True
End With
ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
End Sub

Source: http://word.tips.net/T000422_Automat...and_Links.html

Shouldn't it work for all users? What kind of maintenance will it need?

B)

My language settings will be the same across all the computers that will use these folders, so I do not really know what to change here. Also, nothing is underlined, everything is marked as mispelled unless I manually update the links twice, then, both the gray field shading and underlining disappear until I select anything on the document.

Is it possible to make it so the document appears normally on other users? Me disabling something personally and not seeing it, while others do, does not help with compatibility across platforms.