Realtive and Absolute Hyperlink problems

Question

I am having a problem with Word2013 retaining relative hyperlinks.

After some reasearch I have discovered that there is a setting in the Word Options that must be changed to prevent the relative hyperlinks from being changed to absolute and I have changed that option to prevent updating links upon save.

I  have a parent document and several subdocuments (some of which are in lower order subfolders).  I have set the top level document properties hyperlink base to the top level folder in the document structure.  When I establish the hyperlink, I navigate to the subordiante document and then create the link.  Yet when I hover over the hyperlink, it displays the absolute path, not the relative path.

This structured document will ultimately be mobile (moving from system to system) and these links need to be relative.

Does anyone know what I am missing?

I have crawled all over http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903163/en-us and if the answer is there, I am not seeing it.

Answer 1

Okay, I studied it and it took a non-techie like me a while to work out the suggestion in the windows secrets thread, I get the hyperlinks to work using the solution.

Although, the method I had used to date was just fine, for a single "home user", but I understand (may be) the reasons why we should use your method.

Thanks

Answer 2

As has been discussed in the other threads where you've posted this, modifying Word's options adversely affects other links, too. If it were that simple, there wouldn't be any need for the solution posted at Windows Secrets. The field code solution posted there doesn't require any change to Word's options; both it and the macro solution also work with relative paths to folders other than the current one and with fields other than just hyperlink fields.

Answer 3

Deleted, suggestion works well for this home user but not optimal for others for reasons stated elsewhere.

Answer 4

Take a look at the article http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/154379-Word-Fields-and-Relative-Paths-to-External-Files.