Re: mass change of hyperlinks in Excel

Hi Dan,

For future reference, perhaps this excerpt from the Excel help would work:

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Set the base address for the hyperlinks in a workbook

By default, unspecified paths to hyperlink destination files are relative to the location of the active workbook. Use this procedure when you want to set a different default path. Each time you create a hyperlink to a file in that location, you'll only have to specify the file name, not the path, in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

On the File menu, click Properties.
Click the Summary tab.
In the Hyperlink base box, type the path you want to use.

Note: You can override the hyperlink base address by using the full, or absolute, address for the hyperlink in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
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*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /


Dan wrote:

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:24 PM, John Taylor <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Dan,

Are the file servers running Windows? If so, your server people can solve
this using DFS, which is how it should have been setup in the first place.

These are Windows servers, and I have no idea about whether they're using
DFS. The bottom line is, as I alluded to in an earlier post, is that
nothing at that level gets done around here without a project, a committee,
a cost/benefit analysis, and testing up the wazoo. It'd be a minimum of two
months before anything like this could be enacted.

Heck, I've been moaning off and on for two years about upgrading DBU on our
400s from version 6.0 to 8.0! Helloooo! (I finally got someone to start on
this, but this, too, will require an impact study of some sort.)

When things of this nature need to be done around here, it's best to just
figure out how it can be done without having to involve the infrastructure
support folks. The downside of working in a mega-corporation.

- Dan