Hyperlinks to SharePoint not working in a word document

Question

_{Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:34 AM}

We have a published document sitting on a document library in SharePoint. This document has many embedded hyperlinks to other documents, libraries and sites also in ShrePoint. For some reason these links do not work any more.

1. does anyone know why these links have stopped working?

2. What is the work around or correct solution

Thank you

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:16 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Word automatically creates a hyperlink  when you type the address of an existing Web page, such as www.microsoft.com, into a document.  This behavior occurs only if you have not turned off the automatic formatting of hyperlinks functionality.

If the Update links on save option in Web Options is turned on in Word,  when you create a hyperlink in a Word document, Word  converts the hyperlink  into a relative hyperlink.

For more information, please refer to:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903163

Xue-mei Chang

TechNet Community Support

_{Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:02 PM}

Hi ,

What is the error message ? Hyper link issue with one document or all documents  ? Can you access the  links when  the documnet is not uploaded in sharepoint ?

_{Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:13 PM}

Hi 'Unable to open specified file' is the error message apparently its something to do with inserting the whole URL into the hyperlink? We should use relative links? 1. So if we are linking to a document in the same sharepoint library what path do we need to use? 2. If we are linking to document in another sharepoint document library what is the path we need to use? 3. If we are linking to a another document library what is the correct path we should use? 4. If we just want to link to another site what should we use as the path Hope this makes sense Thank you