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Dave Shea

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Mar 12, 2003, 5:27:45 PM3/12/03
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I want my document footer to show the full path of the
document name. I know that I can get Word to do this in a
field but I do not a drive letter, instead I want the full
network path.

So, if J: is mapped to server path \\fruity\banana
and the document is stored in: J:\varieties\justone
and the document is called: TastyIfSpeckly.doc

I want my document footer to show:
\\fruity\banana\varieties\justone\TastyIfSpeckly.doc

I do _not_ want my footer to show:
J:\varieties\justone\TastyIfSpeckly.doc

which is what I can get at present. I do not want my co-
workers to have to know what drive letter I have chosen to
point to a particular server path.

Any clues out there ?

Terry Farrell

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Mar 12, 2003, 6:30:41 PM3/12/03
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Dave

The only way I believe you can do that is to Unmap the drive in Explorer.
Once it is unmapped, Word will put in the full UNC path.

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Jeff Layman

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Mar 14, 2003, 2:46:37 PM3/14/03
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Using Word 97 on an NT4 network and Windows 95 workstation, there was an odd
bug (feature?) which actually did this until you saved and reopened the
*.doc. Only then did it show the drive letter rather than the strange name
the IT people had given the server. Unfortunately, they never knew why it
did this - perhaps if they had worked it out it would be useful to you.
Maybe there's something on the MSKB somewhere.

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Terry Farrell

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Mar 14, 2003, 3:46:24 PM3/14/03
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Jeff

There is a macro in the supplementary Support8.dot (on the Office CD) to
force Word to use UNC paths which resolves that problem.

Terry Farrell


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Jeff Layman

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Mar 16, 2003, 5:31:19 AM3/16/03
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Terry,

Thanks - I'll have a look (support10.dot on my SBE Office XP CD).

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