Having some issues linking a webpage using MS Word. please help... if I fix it I get brownie points!

[imported_DocHolliday]

Basically, we have an internal website with personnel information and what not, and the guy who put it together left. Being the only person left who knows the first thing about computers it's now my job to fix the site.

Basically... what I want to do is have the link from our index page point to "J:\yaddayadda\etcetc.htm" for example. but whenever I edit the hyperlink in Word it adds in some nonsense about "file://J:\yaddayadda\etcetc.htm" I wouldn't think that would be a problem, but for some reason IE won't follow that link. If I manually type in "J:\yaddayadda\etcetc.htm" into the IE addres bar it works fine so I would assume that if I could simply get that link to not say "file://" in front of the drives and directories that it would solve the problem. Something I also just noticed is that it doesn't actually use drive letters like "J:\" it's using the actual names of the drives. UGH any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[JackMDS]

You can not Hyperlink directly to a file on a hard drive as is.

Directories on hard drive use backward slash \ the address bar in a Browse can uses / slash, that why it changes it.

You can put your files in one place and use ftp with virtual directory. Or you can put an html file with hyperlinks to your files in the document directories of your computer.

Example here (look at the Dir2html) : Simple Serving

:sun:

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Or you can put an html file with hyperlinks to your files in the document directories of your computer.

That's what I was trying to do... but unfortunately word is defaulting to a unc that ie doesn't seem to understand... it's making me cranky:thumbsdown:

 

[thirdlegstump]

Use Notepad.

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

I'm experimenting with it... code is so crazy to look at when you aren't a programmer