How can I make MS Office hyperlinks default to relative links that are portable across storage devices?

I'm having trouble making hyperlinks work when we move the file folders to our archives. We're using Microsoft Office 2016.

I'm an auditor and as an organization we have moved to a paperless system where we produce reports which need to be sourced internally to other documents. The way we do that is to have a report with comments for each section or sentence that needs supporting documentation. It looks something like this:
 
Our problem is that when we are finished with an audit, we need to move the report and all the supporting documentation to various archives. That means that if the hyperlinks are absolute, (e.g. c:/users/michael/documents/filename.docx), the links will no longer work when we access the report from a different server or CD. Also, our audit files often have multiple folders within folders all within an overall audit folder, so I don't think a specific hyperlink base wouldn't work.

I've noticed that when I do hyperlinks while working remotely (VPNing into our servers from an audit site), the links sometimes automatically give a perfect relative link that will work regardless of where I move the audit folder (e.g. ..\..\SupportingDocs\Area4\Lorem Ipsum Doc B.pdf).

Is there any way to make MS Office default to creating those functional relative links? I know how to manually enter them in, but I can't train my colleagues to do that (I've tried).