Article View: bit.mailserv.word-mac
Article #52Importing graphics with links
From: Axel Kowald
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00
18 lines
1217 bytes
1217 bytes
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
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<45bmn4$s8d@fu-berlin.de>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78a4,65fa135c356437c5,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78a4,public From: a_kowald@chemie.fu-berlin.de (Axel Kowald) Subject: Importing graphics with links Date: 1995/10/09 Message-ID: <45bmn4$s8d@fu-berlin.de> X-Deja-AN: 117312879 distribution: world organization: Kristallographic Institute FU Berlin x-access: 16 17 19 nntp-posting-user: a_kowald newsgroups: bit.mailserv.word-mac