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Find the document that is Hyperlinking amother named document ???
I have 1000's of Word documents in a folder hierarchy.
I have the NAME of a document I know for sure is referenced in one or more of the documents in the hierarchy. How can I find these documents ? Last edited by Charles Kenyon; 01-08-2024 at 11:55 AM. Reason: spelling correction |
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If the link displays the name of the document, simply use a Windows search of the top folder.
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Maybe I was a little too fast there ... the 'hyperlink' is an ICON I have to click on to open the document - I need to find the name of the document where that ICON is included. |
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If the hyperlink isn't clear text in the documents then you will probably need a macro to search through each document.
Post a sample doc that contains one of these link icons so we can work out how the code would need to work.
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Andrew Lockton Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia |
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Given the quantity of documents that need to be processed it will take hours. If the folders aren't on a local disk the process will take even longer. Is your need for the information so great that you are prepared to tie up a pc for at least a day? |
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In fact theWindows search CAN find it IF it's inserted as a HYPERLINK, but unfortunately I have inserted an icon that links to the document - and this can NOT be analyzed by Windows search ... and you're quiet right VBA code is running for 4-5 hours to find it ! THX to all of you for your time |
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Do you already have code to do this or are you still looking for code?
You need to post a sample doc with a couple of these icons so we can see what you are dealing with if you want code created.
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I made up some dirty code to do this and by chance I found the document that was 'linking' the the othe document by a icon.
I think I'll will store the code for future use IF I should need to find another document linked to by these icons. I was looking into the possibillity in the LINKED document to make a sort of 'chain back' to the LINKING document BUT ... I link to mails, Word documents, MP3's, videos KMZ's so I havent figured it out yet how to do that. So I have to say "PROBLEM SOLVED" for now |
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