Fix broken links in Microsoft Office
FirstWare-MigrateLink
Office links are used to integrate external data or information into Office documents. This is either obtained from other files, from the internet or the intranet. In the Office documents links are entered via UNC paths, via relative paths or fixed drive letters. As long as the data-structure stays intact, the links work correctly. Should the structure change during a data-migration or the restructuring of the data-storage, it is possible that the links do not point to the correct location anymore.
With FirstWare-MigrateLink you can automatically change links or cell references in Office documents like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Power Point. MigrateLink allows you to change the UNC paths, replace drive letters with UNC paths or exchange the drive letters.
FirstWare-MigrateLink scans the files for Office documents which are linked to other data-sources. The information found is saved in a database.
Based on the scanned information, the data storage can be reorganized and an assignation between source and destination follows. This allows FirstWare-MigrateLink to readapt the links after the migration of the data.
Thus, no essential information will get lost during the reorganization of the files.
To determine if your Office documents have any links to external information, we offer a free version of our LinkInspector.
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Advantages of FirstWare-MigrateLink
Increasing user satisfaction
- After a reorganization or migration of Office documents links work as expected
- Users do not have to wait for the Timeout (5-10 minutes) to start working once they open Word-documents
MigrateLink can adapt the following types of links:
- Excel links
- Word links
- PowerPoint links
- Ole links
- Hyperlinks
- Weblinks
- Picturelinks
- Excel cell-references
- File-links (.LNK-files)
High-performance during analysis
- No Office-products are needed for the data-analysis. Thus the analysis is extremely quick
Data-consistency and -integrity
- Broken links are avoided
- Paths to templates in documents are correct
Office file links and their adaption during data-migration are frequently forgotten. The user suffers from this because, in a worst case-scenario, his documents are useless and he or she has to invest a lot of time and energy to recreate the links.
Feel welcome to contact us if you would like to have your files analyzed for Office file-links. The analysis is noncommittal and for free. In the section Contact you can find our address.