On Jun 15, 9:06*pm, Dave Peterson wrote:
I would have guessed that the C: would work better. *It's worked for quite a few
other people.

But I really like the =hyperlink() worksheet function. *That never fails <vbg.



George R. wrote:

In properties, I changed it to point to the subfolder on the network server
where the hyperlinked document is located (not C, which is my local hard
drive as this didn't work). *So far this seems to work. *I apreciate this
suggestion as well as thehyperlinkformula approach as well!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

A few people have said that this has stopped a similar problem from occurring.
Maybe it'll help you--but you'll have to test it to make sure.

In xl2003 menus:
File|Properties|Summary Tab|HyperlinkBase
change it to C:\
(something that's always available)

In xl2007:
Click on the Office button
Choose Prepare, then properties.
Then use the arrow on the Document Properties dropdown
Choose Advanced Properties
And then change thehyperlinkbase on the Summary tab.

I like to use the =hyperlink() worksheet function. *It has never failed me this
way:

=hyperlink("file:////yourpathtothe/something.xxx","Click me")

George R. wrote:

I have aHyperlinkin my worksheet that points to a document on our network
server, but when I save this file and email it to the group thehyperlink
changes to point to my hard drive where the document is not located..

Tools - Options - General - Web Options - Files - Uncheck update links
on save doesn't work. * Also, I erased the file default location as this was
pointing to my hard drive; this seemed to work for awhile but not any more.

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Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson

Hi

I've tried to use the =hyperlink function in excel 2002 but I'm not
sure how the pathname should be written.

We have two computers on a network, imaginatively named PC1 & PC3 (PC2
was retired sometime ago). An excel file sites on PC1, as do the
documents we want to link to. We need to be able to open the excel
file and the links from PC3. Both relative file paths and setting the
file root in excel have not worked. I saw that the =hyperlink function
was suggested as a solution to similar problems and thought I'd give
it a shot.

I have tried a variety of pathnames in the =hyperlink function but
always receive the error "Cannot open the specified path".

I searched the web but couldn't find anything that described how to
write the file path correctly in excel. Can anyone tell me the correct
syntax?

Cheers

David