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Converting hyperlinks in .doc to working links in .htm...

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Petter H?re - 14 Dec 2004 20:44 GMT
Hi!

I have a whole bunch of .doc-files that are linked together through
hyperlinks. The files are organized so that there is a main document in the
root directory and then there are several documents in other folders.

When I move all the files/folders from let us say F:\ to E:\ the hyperlinks
change accordingly making clicking in word (Ctrl + click) work.

Now...what I would like to do...is take all those files and convert them to
a working file that can be viewed on a PDA using the iSilo program, and it
is essential that these links work.

I am kinda new to the whole iSilo-thing but I figured that the procedure
should go something like this: 1) convert word-files to html-files 2)
convert html-files to iSilo-files using iSiloX.

I seriously have problems with step one. If I convert one of the .doc-files
to a html-file, it is viewable in Internet Explorer but the hyperlinks still
points to a .doc-file on my drive, not the soon-to-be html-file. So the
result is acctually many html-files with invalid links.

As written earlier in this text, I pointed out that when moving the files,
the hyperlinks change accordingly. I would like a solution that changes the
hyperlinks automatically. So...is there a program/way/tool/trick to make
several .doc-files, with links in between these, into html-files that has
working links?

Thanks in advance for any advice
Petter H?re, Norway

PS. I understand that editing these links manually is one solution, but this
is not desireable as there must be several hundred of those links.
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen - 04 Jan 2005 14:34 GMT
Dag, Petter -

I've hit a very similar problem when converting linked Word
files to .pdf; well, in fact, it's a colleague who has the
problem because I use an different app for my documentation <g>

We thought at first we could display the fields and use
search/replace to change the target extension from .doc to
.pdf ... didn't work :-{ what you see in the field changes,
but the link itself doesn't.

If you're converting to HTML, though, perhaps you could use
a text editor on the HTML files and change the .doc
extension to .htm or .html there? This approach (if it
worked) would also leave your original Word files unchanged.

HTH

Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
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