Past the mind reading stage, you did not refute that the other workbooks
were not open. Excel like the people who wrote it and use it, is not a
mind reader and would have to have access to the file and open it in
order to update. For some things Excel may actually open a file even
if you don't see it and having been a programmer the concept of accessing
anything from an unopen file is outside of common reasoning. Excel will
never open a file for use INDIRECT as for anything else about using unopen files
it's something I don't know about and would not trust....

To begin with your question was not clear, and really still is not. But the
fact that the links (which ever terminolgy you are using) are dependent on the
other workbooks being accessible means that they have to be open.

1) obtain the value from another cell
2) hyperlink to anothr location, and there is a difference between
object links and HYPERLINK Worksheet Function, and with the
function if they addresses are inside of quotes they would never
be updated.
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David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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