Relative Links Don't Work in Word Viewer
Article ID: 166049
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
- Microsoft Word 97 Viewer
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q166049
SYMPTOMS
When you click to follow a relative hyperlink that was
created with Internet Assistant, Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 cannot parse the
link information and open the document.
Instead, the URL
Open dialog box from Microsoft Internet Explorer appears.
CAUSE
This problem occurs if both of the following conditions are
true:
- The hyperlink was created in Internet Assistant, an
Internet add-in that you can use to create Web pages in earlier versions of
Microsoft Word (versions earlier than Word 97).
- The link is a relative link. That is, rather than having a
full path to the link, the location of the link is relative to the current
directory.
WORKAROUND
Use the Internet Explorer URL Open dialog
box that appears to go to the linked document.
STATUS
Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
You can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view
documents that were created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in
Microsoft Word 2002, and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
REFERENCES
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
889347
Description of the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
Additional query words: WV WD97 WD2000 WD2002 WD2003
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