Links from Word to Excel use LINK fields, as your video demonstrates. As clearly stated in the Word Fields and Relative Paths to External Files 'Sticky' thread at the top of this forum (https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...nal-files.html), however, all Word field paths are absolute; they have never been relative. As also explained in that thread, whilst field coding can be used to make other kinds of field employ relative paths, it is not possible to make LINK fields behave as if they had relative paths.

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