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I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. I am creating a project with interlinked pdf files. Many of the individual pdf files are first created in Excel (Office 2010); the links to other pdfs are in cells on any given worksheet.
Most of this project was created some time ago with Acrobat Pro 9 and the hyperlinking worked fine; after we upgraded to Office 2010 the usefulness of the Acrobat add-in disappeared and I had info that the situation would be addressed in later versions.
This project is now expanding and I am back in this meandering file structure, and the company has invested in Acrobat XI.
Now, with XI, after I convert the Excel worksheet to pdf (using the add-in on the ribbon), the link actually changes. Where before it was pointing to files within the current folder-set on the company server, after conversion the hyperlink points to a (nonexistant) file on my local C: drive - C:/User/filename.pdf.
Can anyone help me? Am I doing something to make this happen?

I am editing the excel file within the same folder where the pdf will ultimately reside, and the link reads:
..\..\Manufacturer's Documentation\Mechanical\Martin_Bushings.pdf
this is exactly what the link reads when I look at it in Excel. I take the ..\..\ to mean it backs out of its current location to find the Manufacturer's Documentation folder, which makes sense.
After conversion, if I edit the link in pdf, this is what it reads:
File: C:\Users\Manufacturer's Documentation\Mechanical\Martin_Bushings.pdf
Should I make sure my original hyperlink reads from the top-down location on the server?

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