Really annoying Microsoft Office limitation

I am really annoyed by a longstanding Microsoft Office limitation. In its great wisdom, Microsoft decided to restrict hyperlink entries, e.g. in a Word document, to 255 characters. In this day and age it is routine to have URLs much longer than 255 characters. Get with it Microsoft! And oh by the way, if anyone, anywhere can just a viable workaround, please let me know. I am desperate. (Using a URL shortening service isn’t an option and the option in Word of setting a base URL doesn’t help either.)