Hi Vipul,

The surest thing would be to insert the other documents rather than to try
and rely on hyperlinks.

The problem is that the links are probably not pointing to the location in
which the files are located on your friends machines.

It's probably asking a bit too much of your friends, but you could give them
the following macro which would enable them to update the hyperlinks to the
location in which they have the files:

' Macro created 26/10/01 by Doug Robbins to update links in a document
'
Dim alink As Field, linktype As Range, linkfile As Range
Dim linklocation As Range, i As Integer, j As Integer, linkcode As Range
Dim Message, Title, Default, Newfile
Dim counter As Integer

counter = 0
For Each alink In ActiveDocument.Fields
   If alink.Type = wdFieldLink Then

       Set linkcode = alink.Code
       i = InStr(linkcode, Chr(34))
       Set linktype = alink.Code
       linktype.End = linktype.Start + i
       j = InStr(Mid(linkcode, i + 1), Chr(34))
       Set linklocation = alink.Code
       linklocation.Start = linklocation.Start + i + j - 1
       If counter = 0 Then
           Set linkfile = alink.Code
           linkfile.End = linkfile.Start + i + j - 1
           linkfile.Start = linkfile.Start + i
           Message = "Enter the modified path and filename following this
Format " & linkfile
           Title = "Update Link"
           Default = linkfile
           Newfile = InputBox(Message, Title, Default)
       End If
       linkcode.Text = linktype & Newfile & linklocation
       counter = counter + 1
   End If
Next alink

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested.  Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP