On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 19:06 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 17:42 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > >> Whenever I specify the target of a hyperlink with a relative URL, OO > >> changes it to an absolute one. E.g., For a link called "HOME", I specify > >> "index.html". > >> > >> When I click Apply, OO changes it to "http://index.html/"; > >> > >> That's bad for two reasons: > >> > >> 1) That's not what I want. > >> 2) A filename with a trailing slash causes an error message in a browser. > >> > >> Is there a way to tame OO to do what I want? > >> > >> OO help says, "Choose Tools - Options - Load/Save - General and specify in > >> the Save URLs relative to field if OpenOffice.org creates relative or > >> absolute hyperlinks. Relative linking is only possible when the document > >> you are working on and the link destination are on the same drive." > >> > >> But there's no "Save URL relative to field". There's "relative to > >> filesystem" and "relative to Internet". I had them both checked originally > >> but unchecking both seems to have no effect -- I still get absolute links. > >> > >> Help! :-) Thanks. > > > > Have you disabled automatic URL recognition in Tools > AutoCorrect? > > Yes. Both [M] and [T] are unchecked. > > > Forget which tab but that may be your problem. I think once you do that > > you can use Insert > Hyperlink and specify document > > Rather than "Internet"!! Excellent! Thanks.0 >
One thing that may not be obvious is that you can set a bookmark, label it and use that as the document target. Of course, this assumes the target is in the document otherwise use path to specify the external document. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
