Question

I am currently developing a word adding. I need the “Update links on save” in Web Options to be applied.

Details of this setting can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903163

This will allow me to get the absolute reference of files. Does anyone know how to apply this setting programmatically OR retrieve the absolute URL of a file when this is not checked?

Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Found a solution. The link i provided in my question contains the section “Use absolute hyperlinks in a single document” which states if you place “x” in the Hyperlink base field this document will use absolute file referencing. To get to the property in C#:

foreach (DocumentProperty prop in (DocumentProperties)Doc.BuiltInDocumentProperties)
{
    if (prop.Name == "Hyperlink base")
    {
        prop.Value = "x";
        break;
    }
}