About managing Web files and links
Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages.
When you create Web pages, your Microsoft Office application manages the related files and inserts the links and hyperlinks so that the images appear and the links work when the pages are placed on the Web server.
When you create hyperlinks in your Office files, you have the option of making the links relative or absolute. In most cases, it's best to use relative links for any files that will be published on the same server - such as bullets, navigational buttons, background textures, graphics, and pages within the same Web. Using relative links makes it easier to move supporting files from one location to another
Hyperlinks to files on other Web servers, for example, a list of your favorite places on the Web, must be set up as absolute links.
If you use the Save as Web page option from an Office application to save your Web pages to a different server, any relative links to files that aren't being copied to the other server are converted to absolute links.
Managing and naming supporting files
By default, when you save your file as a Web page, all supporting files — such as bullets, background textures, and graphics — are organized in a supporting folder. If you move or copy your Web page to another location, you must also move the supporting folder so that you maintain all links to your Web page.
For example, suppose you have a Web page named Page1.htm. It includes bullets, which are stored in a supporting folder named Page1_files. The relative paths for the image files are \Page1_files\image001.gif and \Page1_files\image002.gif. If you move Page1.htm, you must also move the supporting folder (Page1_files) to the new location.
By default, the name of the supporting folder is the name of the Web page plus an underscore (_), a period (.), or a hyphen (-), and the word "files." For some language versions of Office, the word "files" is translated. For example, suppose you use the Dutch language version of Office 2000 to save a file named Page1 as a Web page. The default name of the supporting folder would be Page1_bestanden.
Default
names for Web page supporting folders
By default, when you save your file as a Web page, all supporting files — such as bullets, background textures, and graphics — are organized in a supporting folder. The name of the supporting folder is the name of the Web page plus an underscore (_), a period (.), or a hyphen (-), and the word "files." The word "files" will appear in the language of the version of Microsoft Office that was used to save the file as a Web page. For example, suppose you use the Dutch language version of Office to save a file named Page1 as a Web page. The default name of the supporting folder would be Page1_bestanden.
Note If you save your Web page with a short file name (maximum of eight characters, plus a three-character file extension) by clearing the Use long file names whenever possible check box in the Web Options dialog box, the supporting folder is the name of the Web page without the word "files."
Language Default name for Web page
supporting folderArabic .files Basque _fitxategiak Brazilian _arquivos Bulgarian .files Catalan _fitxers Chinese (Simplified) .files Chinese (Traditional) .files Croatian _datoteke Czech _soubory Danish -filer Dutch _bestanden English _files Estonian _failid Finnish _tiedostot French _fichiers German -Dateien Greek .files Hebrew .files Hungarian _elemei Italian -file Japanese .files Korean .files Latvian _fails Lithuanian _bylos Norwegian -filer Polish _pliki Portuguese _ficheiros Romanian .files Russian .files Serbian (Cyrillic) .files Serbian (Latin) _fajlovi Slovakian .files Slovenian _datoteke Spanish _archivos Swedish -filer Thai .files Turkish _dosyalar Ukranian .files Vietnamese .files
After you have published your Web pages to the Internet or an intranet, you should test them in a Web browser. Make sure that all the graphics are displayed and that hyperlinks go to the correct destinations.
You can save your file as a Web archive (MHTML) file so that all the text and graphics are stored in a single file. You can then move or send the MHTML file as an e-mail attachment without worrying about broken links. You can view MHTML files with Internet Explorer 4.0 and later.