Hi Trish

Untested but this will work i think

mybook.ChangeLink Name:="'C:\testing\Source.xls'", _
newname:=mybook.FullName, _
Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks


Sub Example()
Dim MyPath As String, FilesInPath As String
Dim MyFiles() As String, Fnum As Long
Dim mybook As Workbook
Dim CalcMode As Long
Dim sh As Worksheet
Dim ErrorYes As Boolean

'Fill in the path\folder where the files are
MyPath = "C:\Users\Ron\test"

'Add a slash at the end if the user forget it
If Right(MyPath, 1) < "\" Then
MyPath = MyPath & "\"
End If

'If there are no Excel files in the folder exit the sub
FilesInPath = Dir(MyPath & "*.xl*")
If FilesInPath = "" Then
MsgBox "No files found"
Exit Sub
End If

'Fill the array(myFiles)with the list of Excel files in the folder
Fnum = 0
Do While FilesInPath < ""
Fnum = Fnum + 1
ReDim Preserve MyFiles(1 To Fnum)
MyFiles(Fnum) = FilesInPath
FilesInPath = Dir()
Loop

'Change ScreenUpdating, Calculation and EnableEvents
With Application
CalcMode = .Calculation
.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
.ScreenUpdating = False
.EnableEvents = False
End With

'Loop through all files in the array(myFiles)
If Fnum 0 Then
For Fnum = LBound(MyFiles) To UBound(MyFiles)
Set mybook = Nothing
On Error Resume Next
Set mybook = Workbooks.Open(MyPath & MyFiles(Fnum))
On Error GoTo 0

If Not mybook Is Nothing Then


'Change links in mybook
On Error Resume Next

mybook.ChangeLink Name:="'C:\testing\Source.xls'", _
newname:=mybook.FullName, _
Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks


If Err.Number 0 Then
ErrorYes = True
Err.Clear
'Close mybook without saving
mybook.Close savechanges:=False
Else
'Save and close mybook
mybook.Close savechanges:=True
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Else
'Not possible to open the workbook
ErrorYes = True
End If

Next Fnum
End If

If ErrorYes = True Then
MsgBox "There are problems in one or more files, possible problem:" _
& vbNewLine & "protected workbook/sheet or a sheet/range that not exist"
End If

'Restore ScreenUpdating, Calculation and EnableEvents
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.EnableEvents = True
.Calculation = CalcMode
End With
End Sub




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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm


"Trish Smith" wrote in message ...
Hi Ron,

Yes. What I've got are about 40 workbooks each with between 7 and 11 sheets.

I have data coming as single sheet workbboks which I collate using some of
your code. Then to save on time I've got a template with macros to add the
analysis sheets to each of the workbooks. The analysis sheets of the
workbooks have lookup formulas relating back to the original template. So
then the idea is that I change the link source from template to each of the
workbooks so it looks up its own data.

Hope that makes sense :-)

Cheers
--
Trish


"Ron de Bruin" wrote:

Hi Trish

Do you want to remove the links so they point to the cells in the same workbook

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Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm


"Trish Smith" wrote in message ...
Hi Roger,

I tried putting the set statement directly after the declarationas and got a
compile error - object required

Any idea what I've doen wrong?
--
Trish


"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi Trish

Maybe
Set strelink = ActiveWorkbook.name

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Regards
Roger Govier

"Trish Smith" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone,

I posted last week and Ron de Bruin pointed me to his website for code
that
looped thru files in a folder which was just what I needed.

I've just come back to this bit of work now and realised that the original
code allows you to select the source of the old link and then of the new
link.

I would like to automate this and the old link will be the same for all 40
or so of the wkbks in the folder. The new link will be the active
workbook.

ActiveWorkbook.ChangeLink Name:="C:\testing\Source.xls", _
newname:=strnewlink, _
Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks

How do I write it so that newname is the active workbook each time?

Many thanks
--
Trish