no. this is hard coded into excel itself and usually
occurs when emailing or copy/paste to another workbook.
put the files on a public drive if you can then have him
open them from the public drive.

-----Original Message-----
Hello --

Can someone tell me if the following problem is caused
by an Excel
configuration setting, or is there another reason for it?

Problem: References to cells in opened but hidden
workbooks become
hard-coded in formulas.

In the set of related workbooks we deliver to him, an
example formula merely
includes the workbook name, as in
= Engineering.xls!cx_qam

When he sends the set of workbooks back to us for
checking, debugging, etc.,
this formula would appear as
= 'C:\Documents and Settings\username\My
Documents\folder_path_below_this\Engineering.xls' !cx_qam

Thanks for any help or direction on this.

Larry Mehl



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