The actual hyperlink address is what needs to be changed, the display string is shown in place of the hyperlink code, that does not need to change

For example the original address might be ...

K:\000 - Log Avatar\00 - Avatar Base\A - Life H0 1 - Life.doc#StorageMain

and I want to keep the bookmark so i'd want to replace...

K:\000 - Log Avatar\00 - Avatar Base\A - Life H0 1 - Life.doc

in say 1,000 hyperlinks within that document.

with say...

K:\000 - Log Avatar\00 - Avatar Base\A - Life H0 101 - Life.doc

so that this appears in all the hyperlinks leaving the original bookmarks unchanged but with the new address

and....

... another issue I am facing is an upgrade of the files to the new docm format instead of doc

so I might want all the links changed from

K:\000 - Log Avatar\00 - Avatar Base\A - Life H0 1 - Life.doc

to

K:\000 - Log Avatar\00 - Avatar Base\A - Life H0 1 - Life.docm

with the original bookmarks attached to each.

Hoping you can help, as otherwise it would be a pain to have to reset every single link manually when there are thousands of them.

Note:

Using the 'Alt +F9' to show the fieldcodes and then modifying the fieldcodes that are displayed doesn't work as the changes aren't saved back to the hyperlink addresses...

yet if I change the hyperlink address using edit hyperlink "Ctrl +K" dialogue, the changes are reflected in the shown fieldcodes.

so I need a way to mass-modify the actual hyperlink addresses, not the displayed field-codes