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Importing graphics with links

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From: Axel Kowald
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00
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Hi

I just discovered a nice feature of Word 6, namely that one can import graphics
using links. This way only the link is stored in the word document and not the
graphics itself, which keeps the document small and handy.

However, unfortunately Word (for the Mac) uses absolute pathnames for the links.
That means even if you keep your word document and graphics files together, you
cannot move them to a different directory. If you display the field function
(which inserts the graphic) one can actually change the absolute pathnames to
relative pathnames (starting with a ":") by hand and everything works find.

I just wondered if anyone has noticed that and knows how to tell Word to use the
relative pathnames as default. 



	Axel Kowald 
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From: a_kowald@chemie.fu-berlin.de (Axel Kowald)
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Date: 1995/10/09
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