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Database reference links don't work for other people accessing them
I have an access database and a set of excel files. The database links to the Excel files for data to feed the database. The output from the database is via an Excel file that links back to the dat...
So in my case
I swap C:\Users\petes\
for %HOMEPATH%
This doesn't work \\%HOMEPATH%\Daimon Barber Dropbox\A1 DB SharedFolder
Is this the correct format?
for
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Stanners wrote:
This doesn't work \\%HOMEPATH%\Daimon Barber Dropbox\A1 DB SharedFolder
No \\ in the path. Just %HOMEPATH% and then the rest of the path after the username. So %HOMEPATH% would replace C:\Users\username.
But, even that might not work. Office has a bad habit of "helping" by trying to force absolute paths in links. Do a Google search for "Office relative links" and you'll find hundreds of posts spanning nearly two decades trying to resolve this issue, most with mixed results.
Office really expects absolute paths.
