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Prevent automation UNC Resolution to mapped drives in Hyperlin
I can't find anything on whether or not Office 2007 applications use the
"DontUseUNC" registry value, but I'm still researching. "Gordon Muscroft" wrote in message ... Thanks again for the help. FYI my posts seem to be getting deleted. I am not sure why. They get posted for about 15 minutes and then disappear. The problem continues, as once you map a drive, when the location opens, it gets resolved to a UNC address. I have even tried to use Word and Excel, but to no avail. To reproduce the problem, map a drive and then use insert Hyperlink in Outlook, Word or Excel. Try to navigate from the hyperlink in the document. The result will not be to the Mapped drive in file explorer, but the UNC path to the hyperlink. This is most likely by design, but are there any parameters available to over-ride this behavior? Thanks again Gord "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Okay, if you can expand on "tries to resolve to a..." that would be helpful as I'm not sure you are saying that the e-mail takes longer to open because Outlook is trying to verify the path is valid or something else. "Gordon Muscroft" wrote in message ... Guys; I have posted a couple of replies but they seem to be getting deleted. I am not sure what is going on. I will try later from home... Long story. Its still failing as onced mailed the UNC tries to resolve to a view.. Same in Excel and WOrd. Thanks for the help Gord "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: I would have to agree with Brian at this point. Assuming the two boxes I mentioned are unchecked, you should be able to right click on the text and use the Hyperlink option. Just type in file://drive_letter:\folder\folder1\filename.doc or file://\\server\project\documents\requirements\filename.d oc and it should net you a clickable link that doesn't change on you. "Gordon Muscroft" wrote in message ... Neo; The links are not clickable after unchecking the box in question, IE: They are inserted as text, but what I was looking for was a clickable link which does not resolve to a UNC path. Example s:\Documents\Requirements\MyDoc.doc as opposed to a link whic resolves to: \\ServerName\ProjectDirectory\Documents\Requiremen ts\MyDoc.doc. It looks like this behavior is the same in Word, and most likely across the Office suite.... In most cases I would say this is a good thing, but in the particular case I am in the resolution to a common UNC path will not work. Thanks Gord "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Hmm... I am not able to duplicate and I have the same configuration. Just to make sure, after you uncheck the two boxes in question, all new messages that you compose are still generating clickable links to Internet/UNC paths? "Gordon Muscroft" wrote in message ... This is what I tried to do, but it still seems not to work. (I turned off (Unchecked) the "Internet and Network Paths with Hyperlink" on the Autoformat tab in the Pearl/Proofing/Autocorrect Option--Autocorrect Tab) FYI: Outlook 2007, SP-2 Vista SP-2 Any other sugesstions? Registry? "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: You can turn this off in AutoCorrect. Assuming Outlook 2007, start a new message. Select the Pearl and then editor options. Proofing AutoCorrect Options. There are two tabs you have to visit in regards to internet/unc paths. "Gordon Muscroft" Gordon wrote in message ... I want to prevent automatic resolution of mapped drives to UNC paths for certain links in Outlook (Mail). Is the is possible? I have tried to use the caret and double caret ( and ) which so far has not been successful. More details: We are using ClearCase as a repository for design document, with all users having custom views. These views are mapped to a common drive, but each view has a different name: (IE: \\Person.Name\BusinesReq\...\filename.doc) This makes the URL unique for every person, but in Outlook XP we could e-mail the mapped drive/link between people. In Outlook 2007 the mapped drive trys to resolve to the View Name, which is not available to anyone but the originator of the document. Thanks Gord |
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