Embedded hyperlinks not copying right.

There's a spreadsheet that several of our users use; it's got
(non-http) hyperlinks to other Excel spreadsheets.

1) When I mouseover, it shows a path, such as
"\\server\path\to\file.xls"; if I edit the hyperlink, however, it only
shows me "..\..\path\to\file.xls".
How does it figure out the mouseover path? Where is it stored?

2) All our users frequently cut-and-paste these hyperlinks. One user,
however, instead of getting hyperlinks that work and look exactly the
same as the source hyperlinks, instead gets ones that a) don't show
anything on mouseover, and b) now have "..\..\..\..\path\to\file.xls"
[note the two extra "..\..\"], which doesn't work when clicked on.

#2 is my true concern -- the user has to hand-edit all the hyperlinks
(apparently search-and-replace doesn't work on hyperlink data) to make
them work properly, though I imagine #1 is related somehow. Anyone
know how this all works?

I've tried every kind of paste imaginable with the non-functional user,
and no dice. The functional users simply cut-and-paste as you would
anything, and it works fine. Yeah, I'm stumped. ;-)

Thanks much,

-Ken

Some people have written that changing the hyperlink base
(File|properties|Summary tab)

to something like
C:\
(that's always available)
will make the hyperlinks not change.

ps. I like to use the =hyperlink() worksheet function. I've never had any
trouble with them.

Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>
> There's a spreadsheet that several of our users use; it's got
> (non-http) hyperlinks to other Excel spreadsheets.
>
> 1) When I mouseover, it shows a path, such as
> "\\server\path\to\file.xls"; if I edit the hyperlink, however, it only
> shows me "..\..\path\to\file.xls".
> How does it figure out the mouseover path? Where is it stored?
>
> 2) All our users frequently cut-and-paste these hyperlinks. One user,
> however, instead of getting hyperlinks that work and look exactly the
> same as the source hyperlinks, instead gets ones that a) don't show
> anything on mouseover, and b) now have "..\..\..\..\path\to\file.xls"
> [note the two extra "..\..\"], which doesn't work when clicked on.
>
> #2 is my true concern -- the user has to hand-edit all the hyperlinks
> (apparently search-and-replace doesn't work on hyperlink data) to make
> them work properly, though I imagine #1 is related somehow. Anyone
> know how this all works?
>
> I've tried every kind of paste imaginable with the non-functional user,
> and no dice. The functional users simply cut-and-paste as you would
> anything, and it works fine. Yeah, I'm stumped. ;-)
>
> Thanks much,
>
> -Ken

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Dave Peterson