Working with Document Links

Summary: You can link objects from other Microsoft Office documents into your Word document. You can manage the status of those links by using the Links dialog box, discussed in this tip. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)

After you have linked information from other applications into your documents, you may want to someday review those links to see which applications your document is dependent upon. To do this, choose Links from the Edit menu. Word displays the Links dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)

The Links dialog box lists all the objects linked to your document. From the dialog box you can do the following:

Manually update the linked information by selecting it and then clicking on the Update Now button.
Change the source from which linked information is derived by selecting the link and then clicking on the Change Source button. (This displays another dialog box in which you can specify the new file location.)
Break a document link by selecting the link and then clicking on the Break Link button.

Tip #1139 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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