Creating hyperlinks from 1 document to others that may be revised later:How can I automatically update links?

- The document will be written in Word and later converted to text-readable PDF (by necessity).


- Each revision of every document I'm linking to will be stored in the same folder, and their filenames will be similar. For example the link to ';XYZ R01'; will have to be updated to ';XYZ R02';.





Many Thanks.Creating hyperlinks from 1 document to others that may be revised later:How can I automatically update links?
It can't be done the way you envision it. Instead, name your current document XYZ. When revisions are made, save this ';original'; with a different name (such as XYZ 3_10_2007) Then overwrite the original with the latest revision, keeping the same file name. Your hyperlink will therefore continue to point to the latest revision of your form, and you will have a list of past revisions, already sorted by date (or you can use R01, R02, etc. for old versions if you like).





The key is to keep the latest and greatest revision with the same file name as the original marked in your hyperlink. Use the ';save as'; feature to keep all previous revisions with different file names.





As an alternative, you can have your hyperlink point to a folder containing all revisions, or to a second form that has hyperlinks to all revisions.Creating hyperlinks from 1 document to others that may be revised later:How can I automatically update links?
As long as you keep the names the same, and in the same folder relative to your document, you should be fine. ( test in advance).





I would also check the link feature.





It should be availabel in Word and Adobe Acrobat.








I hope this helps !
get office 2007 it'll do it automatically