Word 2010 Network Path Hyperlinks change to Local C Drive

Hi,
I am having issues with Microsoft Word documents that have links in it to other documents. I'm not sure why but these hyperlinks change from their UNC path to a C path. For example
\\server\folder\document.pdf
would change to
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\folder\document.pdf
This happens to all links on that document. We have hundreds of documents and finding that they are doing this randomly which means all links need to be created again. We did not have this issue using Word 2003, or Word 2007. This has happened since upgrading
to 2010 a few months ago.
All the documents have been created years ago in Word 2003.
I have looked everywhere and realize there are other topics similar however no answer has been found.
Hopefully someone can help

Hi Dave,
This behavior is because that the link by default is saved as
Relative Link, with relative link used, we are able to move the documents to wherever we need, and still keep the link works. As the disadvantageous, the link will no longer work if we actually need the link to be an absolut link.
This especially happens when the linked document is saved in the same folder.
To avoid such issue, we need to modify the following setting to use absolute link instead of relative links.
To do this, use the following method.
On the File menu, click Options.
Click Advanced.
Under General, click Web Options.
Click the Files tab.
Click to clear the Update links on save check box.
Click OK two times.
For enterprise environment, we can modify the setting for multiple machines using group policy:
Microsoft Office 2010 --> Tools |Options | General | Web Options... --> Files --> Update links on save
Max Meng
TechNet Community Support

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