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Subject:Re: Warning re: importing by reference From:Mona Albano <mab -at- USER -dot- ROSE -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:19:40 -0400
At 12:04 PM -0700 8/27/98, Elizabeth Kane wrote:
> ...He used import by ref in every one of his
> docs, and sometimes there are 6 or 8 files I have to track down.
> Because the path to the files the doc was dependent on cited his hard
> drive name, and it's dead now, every file has to be fixed! I'm working
> unpaid overtime as a result.
>
> Beth Kane
> bkane -at- artisoft -dot- com in Tucson
>
Beth,
If you are working in Word I hope you know that you can
switch to "Display Codes" in your options and just edit
the directory names thus displayed, rather than re-importing
every picture.
It's under Tools... Options... [Show] Field Codes.
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