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Kacper Modzelewksi
Aug 10, 2017Copper Contributor
how to remove external links from excel
hello Please help me with following task - I try to remove external links from excel: Data==>Edit Links==>break link It does not work - still I have that external links in the list. Even I c...
JKPieterse
Nov 19, 2018Silver Contributor
Odd. Links have been supported by Excel as far back as version 4 (1990), so I am surprised this worked for you.
Leon Tribe
Nov 19, 2018MVP
Beats me. I had a link to another file which 'break links' wouldn't touch so I saved then back again and no more file link :)
- JKPieterseNov 19, 2018Silver ContributorI expect the link was in a feature that is not supported by that Excel version then. Perhaps in formula in a table which isn't visible. What you might try is to add a new empty row to each table in your original workbook and then do a search for .xls.