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Jeff01840
Sep 14, 2019Copper Contributor
External Links
Hi, I am new to this forum. I have a large excel workbook that I creating and am using on a mac. I recently added to the workbook and must have added an external link. I know I should have been m...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Sep 14, 2019Platinum Contributor
Jeff01840 I'm on Excel for Mac, v16.28
You wrote you tried breaking the links. Assuming you went through the "Edit links" option found in either the Data-ribbon or the Data drop-down menu. Strange that it didn't work.
Try this one. On Excel/Preferences/View, check the "Formulae" box. This will display the formula entered for each cell, instead of the outcome of each formula. External links will stand out something like " '=/Users/Xxxx/Documents/[Book2.xlsx]Sheet1'!$A$1" ". It will require some manual review, but might help you identify the cells that contain the external links.