John,

I don't know, because I personally prefer to not use complex names. I think they make it harder to
understand a workbook and maintain it.

But it may work, though I would certainly test to see what happens when the "myOthersheet" file is
saved under a different name.

Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"John Keith" wrote in message
...
Bernie, could you put the references into a named-range...

RangeName:
LogRange

RefersTo:
=[c:\documents and settings\myname\my
documents\myOthersheet.xls]Logs!$A$1:$H$10

then the formulas would use the shorter name "LogRange" to represent that
link?

--
Regards,
John


"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Rob,

Sorry, but no. The way around this is to put each link into a separate cell, then make your
formula
using only those local cells.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Rob" wrote in message
...
Is there anyway to have Excel not put the path in a formula when renaming a
file. I have some large long IF statements in my workbook and when I save
the file in a different directory and then try to reopen, I get a "formula is
too long" error. These functions are linked to other spreadsheets on
different drives. Can someone please help?