Emailing Document with Hyperlinks to locally stored files

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Steve - 09 May 2008 17:39 GMT

I am a technical recruiter and I work with others in different offices
geographically separated.

I have a list of resumes with comments on each. I would like to distribute
this list to my collegues, and hyperlink each line item to the respective
resume which I have locally saved on my PC.

My solution was to ZIP the resumes and include them in the email, but, how
would I ensure the hyperlinks were still valid upon "unzipping" the resumes
at the receiving end?

thanks

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John McGhie - 10 May 2008 03:46 GMT

Good question! To which there is no elegant answer.

If you create a folder to contain all of the resumes and the document, then
hyperlink from the document to the resumes, then zip the folder, the links
will be OK when the recipient unpacks the folder.

This relies on an undocumented "feature" of Word that ignores the path in
links of the destination is in the same folder as the source. If the
destination is in a subfolder, Word will try to resolve the entire path and
fail.

Particularly if you make the folder on a PC and send it to a Mac.

And since your question dropped into the Mac Word forum, we must assume that
some of your recipients are on a Mac :-)

Cheers

On 10/05/08 2:39 AM, in article
503F94BE-8544-4FC1-A533-1467B67A0BDC@microsoft.com, "Steve"

> I am a technical recruiter and I work with others in different offices
> geographically separated.
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> thanks

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Emailing Document with Hyperlinks to locally stored files