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Excel automatically and randomly changes workbook relative links to absolute links.
Hi everyone, I am working with sevral large workbooks that are linked together (total over 110 Mb of data). Periodically, I do backups trying to copy all workbooks together to another drive hopin...
Two possible solutions to prevent the links from breaking. Note, these solutions will not fix any links that have already broken.
1. Disable 'update links on save'
2. If all the files are pointing to the same directory, you could try setting a hyperlink base:
Work with links in Excel - Microsoft Support See: Set the base address for links in a workbook
- Thank you Patrick2788 for your answer. When you mention broken links, do you consider a link that starts (in a VLOOKUP formula for example) with "file:///D:..." as a broken link ? If so, are you aware of any possible solution to fix those links ?
Thank you MickThornton for all your input as well !- 'broken' being - you click the link and get an error that says something like file could not be opened. Direct hyperlinks to files on the network and internet has been an issue for a long time.
- Thanks Patrick2788 for the very useful options tip. I have now made that setting change for the document I fixed about 60 links on and it seems to be working as expected. I love the base address feature and don't remember when that came into Excel. I thought it would work for me, but I found 4 other links to content with different base URLs. 😮
