Word 2010 - Elegant way to insert or link files?

As part of a new effort to increase the amount of documentation and paperwork my colleagues and I have to do, our principal wants me to start keeping and passing on monthly material lists for our lessons. Many of these materials take the form of worksheets that we put together in Word or Publisher and keep as digital files.

Is there an elegant way to link these worksheets into the main Word file so the links will persist as the files and/or folders are transferred across storage media and computers? I was hoping I could actually tie the files into my base document so they could be extracted out of the document as needed, but I would settle for a way to link the files so they're persistent across media and computers as long as the relative positions of the documents remain unchanged.

If that sounds confusing, here's an example of what it might look like:

If my base file is:
C:\Documents\School\Materials.docx

It finds the linked document at:
C:\Documents\School\Worksheets\Worksheet.docx

But if I transfer the School folder to my USB drive, then
H:\School\Materials.docx

needs to look at
H:\Scool\Worksheets\Worksheet.docx

instead of
C:\Documents\School\Worksheets\Worksheet.docx

...

Am I making any sense? Seems like I should be able to do this pretty easily with radicals (assuming Word doesn't automatically do this), but my brief fling with Linux died after a few weeks in 2007 and my only other "coding" experience is assigning drive letters in DOSBox, so I'm kind've an idiot with these things. Help?

 

Have you tried using a standard hyperlink, using relative syntax for the file location? Does this help?

 

Looks like that does it. The standard for filesystem hyperlinks appears to be relative, so it searches for the hyperlink relative to the base document, which is what I wanted. I would say this will teach me to test things out before asking questions, but I've said that before and still never learned.

Thanks.