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From: "Dave" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:33 AM
Subject: Absolute URL - option has vanished!

Dave,
          I'm a bit confused by your inquiry?
You don't mention if your "browsing" a web page you created or browsing on
the open internet?

Word does a piss-poor job as a browser!

Internet Explorer or any of the alternative browsers work much better on the
open internet.
In addition, most real internet browsers offer a function to "view source",
which when selected will open NotePad by default. NotePad does a much better
job of editing html when compared to Word.

Perhaps Bob Buckland can tell you what has vanished from Word?

Hi Dave,

If by prior version you're referring to Word v6('94), 7('95)
or v8('97) then yes, things in the Word 2000 thru 2003 series
will be a bit different :)

In File=>Properties you can specify a 'hyperlink base' and
if you then enter a fully qualfieid URL in a Word hyperlink
then generally it will retain the absolute URL.

I mention generally because there is a bit of a bug when it
comes to when it retains relative vs absolute values in
the Hyperlinks in Word 2000.

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Hello everyone,

I have just upgraded to Word 2000 sr-1, and I notice that
when inserting a hyperlink by browsing to an item, it just
gives the relative path without giving the absolute path
as an option (as the previous version did).

Do you know where the option has been hidden, or has it
just vanished?

Thanks for your help.

Dave <<