I have an attorney who wants to link text in a cell to a PDF file that
resides on a server in our domain. This server resides in the Boston office
and none of our Hartford users have mapped drives to this server. (We use
Docs Open for file management) When we save the UNC Path, close the
spreadsheet and reopen it the link does not work. It changes the UNC path's
back slashes to forward slashes like on the internet.

Does anyone know of a way to use a UNC path instead of a URL to link text to
a file? If we have a mapped drive to the source server this isn't a
problem. But because our hartford users don't need access to our Boston
server this will not will not work.