WV: Relative Links Don't Work in Word Viewer

• Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000

SYMPTOMS

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

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

Use the Internet Explorer URL Open dialog box that is displayed to go to the linked document.

STATUS

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

REFERENCES

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:

Keywords : kbinterop kbusage kbviewer
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb