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Network Connection Error in Excel
I too have encountered this issue many times in the past few months. I tried the "Manage account" solution dbliss147 suggested, but that doesn't work for me.
I found closing and re-opening Excel get it to work a few times, but only for a few minutes since restarting Excel. Work with Excel for a while, and it gives the error again. Perhaps a network trace will help to see what packets are being sent and to where. It could be a DNS error or some incorrect path.
It's definitely not an Operating system or networking problem. Everything else is working properly, even functions within Excel such as "Get Add-ins" which reaches out to other network servers.
For info, I've also had the same issue in MS Word and on different computers and networks.
Very odd and frustrating.