Re: linking bmps in Word

[Ginna Watts <gwatts -at- QUESTERCORP -dot- COM>]

I have noticed this phenomenon many times. My internal tests show that the linking has to do with the initial directory. If you do an Insert>From File action, the default directory is usually the Clip Art one. If you browse to your graphic directory (on the network say), Word inserts a full hard link, even if the graphic directory is directly below your file's.  (e.g. X:\\documents\art folder\graphic.bmp - Use the Shift-F9 command to view this in action.)

Now, if you repeat the command, the 'open' directory is the last used - your graphics directory. The link is now relative (art folder\\graphic.bmp)

If you stay in this one directory, any file you insert during this session will have a relative link. If you exit Word, and then reopen, the file directory is set back to your default. 

Hope this helps,

Ginna Watts
Technical Writer
Quester Tangent Corp.
gwatts -at- questercorp -dot- com



On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:52:08   Shawn Brown Knoernschild wrote (in part):
>Hello,
>
>I'm emerging from lurk mode because I'm at the end of my rope. I'm updating
>a training guide that includes a lot of linked screen captures. The guide
>and the graphics are in the same directory and I want the source file names
>for the links to be within the directory instead of referring to the entire
>network path. I frequently put this guide on CD and the links stay intact if
>the source file names are within the folder. Word is giving me a hard time
>because, seemingly arbitrarily, the source file name sometimes includes the
>entire network path and sometimes just the intra-directory path that I want.
>Has anyone else had similar problems? I would appreciate any recommendations
>for a solution. Thank you in advance.
>


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