Brian,

I just tested what you said.

Indeed, when the cell contents is selected (cursor before content, the move 
over it with 'shift/right arrow'), the content is available when opening the 
dialogue both from the button (which I never spotted in the first place :-) and 
from menu insert > hyperlink (⌘K).
From the menu this is not very intuitive, I think.

When I went to the save preferences, the option for relative path was already 
set (apparently it is the default). Since it is not displayed in the dialogue 
this way, I just didn't think that it would automagically be right. Next time 
no assumptions, just test first!

Thank you for your clear answer,

Rob.


On 18 aug. 2015, at 21:58, Brian Barker wrote:

> At 20:57 18/08/2015 +0200, Rob Jasper wrote:
>> I inserted a link to another pdf file. That works, if I click the link the 
>> other file is opened. Here's the weird thing. I don't seem able to edit the 
>> text value, nor the path. If I right click there's not something as edit 
>> (the link). Also in the menu I can't find something like 'edit link'. Am I 
>> missing something?
> 
> I think you need first either to put the cursor immediately to the left of 
> the hyperlink or to select the hyperlink text itself - which you cannot do 
> simply by clicking or double-clicking, of course. Then you can open the 
> Hyperlink dialogue either by clicking the Hyperlink button in the Standard 
> toolbar or by going - perhaps somewhat counterintuitively - to Insert | 
> Hyperlink. You may find it easier to open the Hyperlink dialogue first and 
> then navigate to the hyperlink in the cell: the dialogue will populate when 
> you reach the right point. If the cell contains only the hyperlink, you need 
> only to select the cell.
> 
>> If change the path to a relative path (as from the location of the calc 
>> file) I get an error message when clicking the link. The message says: 
>> LibreOffice could not find a web browser on your system. Please check your 
>> Desktop Preferences or install a web browser (for example, Firefox) in the 
>> default  location requested during the browser installation.
> 
> LibreOffice always display absolute paths, since this is the way it operates 
> internally. Your choice to have a relative path is a matter of what is stored 
> in the document file when it is saved; if you want the path to be relative, 
> you need to make this choice at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General | 
> Save | Save URLs relative to file system. (Oh, on your Mac OS system, that's 
> at LibreOffice | Preferences | Load/Save ... .) If you create the link in the 
> normal way and have this setting ticked when you save the document, the link 
> will behave as a relative link when the document is reopened. In other words, 
> if the document file is moved the absolute file path that would then be 
> displayed would be appropriately different.
> 
> The message about a browser implies that your hyperlink is now being treated 
> as an internet link instead of a document one. This may be because you have 
> selected Internet instead of Document in the Hyperlink dialogue, but perhaps 
> you have just attempted to edit the document path inappropriately - losing 
> its leading "file:///" - and confused LibreOffice.
> 
> I trust this helps.
> 
> Brian Barker
> 
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