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Links between Excel and PowerPoint don't work anymore
For almost 10 years, I have pasted and linked charts from Excel into PowerPoint using Paste Special / Paste Link. To update the chart in PowerPoint to the current version in the Excel file, I would right click on the chart in PowerPoint and select Update Link. That worked fine until last week. Now, when I click on Update Link, I get the error message "The linked file was unavailable and can't be updated."
The PowerPoint file and Excel file are both in my One Drive. I haven't changed the name or location of either the PowerPoint file or the Excel file.
I spent an hour online with a tech who ran various repairs on my Microsoft 365, but nothing helped. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
(I used to link charts from Excel into Word files, but that stopped working a couple of years ago.)
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I am having the same issue and trying to troubleshoot now too. Please post any updates you get! We have not been able to use local files because the OneDrive is required in our case.
I encounter a similar problem at past, please try to Re-establish Links and Test with Local Files
By "Local Files," do you mean files that are not on OneDrive? (I've been assuming that the problem has something to do with OneDrive but wonder what has changed in the last two weeks.)
We are having the same issue. I reset the one drive and updated Microsoft 365 and I still cannot get the powerpoint to open correctly. It asks me if I want to update the links and then it downloads and downloads and then gives me an error.
I should have pointed out that I was on a conference call this week with someone who was having exactly the same problem. We don't work for the same company and don't share any computer systems.
Yes! That is exactly our issue too. I keep trying to comment and I don't know why my comments are not going through!
