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Q166049: WV: Relative Links Don’t Work in Word Viewer

Article: Q166049
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbinterop kbusage kbviewer
Last Modified: 19-JUL-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you click to follow a relative hyperlink that was created with Internet
Assistant, Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 is unable to parse the link information
and open the document.

Instead, the URL Open dialog box from Internet Explorer is displayed.

CAUSE
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This problem occurs when 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
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Use the Internet Explorer URL Open dialog box that is displayed to go to the
linked document.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES
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For more information about Word Viewer 97-2000, please see the following
Knowledge Base article:

  

  Q165908 WV: How to Obtain Microsoft Word Viewers

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbinterop kbusage kbviewer 
Technology        : kbWordViewerSearch kbViewerSearch kbWordViewer97
Version           : WINDOWS:
Issue type        : kbprb
Solution Type     : kbnofix

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