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Therrion71
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Aug 08, 2022
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Advanced Threat Protection - Safe Links

I have an Excel spreadsheet that I maintain for our religious organization. It is full of hundreds if not thousands of hyperlinks. Recently I started receiving this popup notice that reads as follows...
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    Mark_Claessens
    Feb 28, 2023

    FE_Charlie 

     

    I thought I would update everyone from my post prior.

     

    I engaged the help of two of our top IT experts at my company.  They talked with other "experts" and in the end they came back with....."Sorry, but we cannot figure this one out."   

     

    The odd thing is that this does NOT affect other MS programs or apps.   I have tested this over and over and it works just fine in Word, Publisher, or even PowerPoint.  No problem opening up an active hyperlink.  Heck, I can even print my SPREASHEET in Excel over to an Adobe PDF and guess what?  That opens flawlessly without the delays! No errors.

     

    This is ONLY happening in Excel and ONLY since that last big update they had for Office 365.

     

    I am learning to just live with it and hope that one day down the road MS figures this out and does fix it.  But when all these big shots and experts with Microsoft and Excel specifically.....can't figure this out?    I don't have a lot of hope left on this fix.   But I sure wish someone from MS would pay attention to this and figure it out.

     

    Mark

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Ollyhal
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Sep 22, 2023

DCroomThis CmdLet is only available in Exchange environment. Private Users don´t benefit from that

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Therrion71
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Sep 22, 2023

Ollyhal What I found that fixed this issue relatively easy is to uninstall Excel and reinstall the program. Problem was solved as soon as I had Excel up and running again. I assume that this issue was some kind of glitch, which Excel has many, in the Security Protocol portion of the program. I have not had an issue since I have done this over a year ago.

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