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674121 2008-05-31 01:06:00 Hello

It's very difficult to search for solutions regarding MS-Word and MS-Excel hyperlinks, because 99% percent of the stuff out there is for web page hyperlinks. I use hyperlinks a great deal in Office.

I have Office 2000 Professional with SP3 applied (Word 9 & Excel 9)

Anyway, my questions are:
1. Does anyone know of a method or freeware product that allows one to find out if a file is hyperlinked in any documents? Say you want to move a file from one directory to another but are not sure if you will cause a broken link.

2. Does anyone know of a freeware product/add-in that will check the hyperlinks in a Word or Excel document (or both) and list/highlight the broken links? I tried a product from ablebits.com called Hyperlinks Checker, but it wasn't up to it. It falsely cited links that were fine and gave so many "noise" "suspicious" links (hundreds) that I couldn't find the real broken links among them. Basically, anything that had text that was different to the link was suspicious!
GordonBennet (13808)
674122 2008-05-31 03:40:00 Is this the type of thing you mean

www.ablebits.com

note I have never used it
I don't think it will help you with your first question, as thats more of a "backlink?" checker issue
Morgenmuffel (187)
674123 2008-05-31 03:44:00 Is this the type of thing you mean

www.ablebits.com
That's the one the OP tried but said didn't work very well.
sal (67)
674124 2008-05-31 04:00:00 oops

dammit I thought it sounded familiar, teach me to post when I've got the lurgy
Morgenmuffel (187)
674125 2008-05-31 07:46:00 this may do it

do a windows search, use *.doc or *.xls as file name the for "word or phase in file" put in the file name you are going to move.
beama (111)
674126 2008-05-31 09:47:00 this may do it

do a windows search, use *.doc or *.xls as file name the for "word or phase in file" put in the file name you are going to move.

Thanks beama, that would probably work if I used the full name of the file as the hyperlink text, but I never do. I tested it anyway to make sure and it wasn't successful.

I usually have something like: See here for details [where "here" is the hyperlink]
GordonBennet (13808)
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