Thank you macropod! The "paste link" worked for me as long as I removed the INCLUDETEXT

{IF {REF ACOUSTICS} = "TRUE" "{ LINK WORD.DOCUMENT.12 "HTTPS://***" "ACOUSTICS" \A \H }" ""}

Your suggestion that references the sync'd C: drive location also worked; however, i assumed it would not work properly for other users utilizing the same document, so I opted for the above.
Thank you for the help.