this happens with hyperlinks - by link, do you mean hyperlink.

To prevent this from happening, change something on the sheet of the
workbook with the hyperlink and do save the file so that Excel considers the
workbook "dirty"

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"steve" wrote in message
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Hello All! And thanks for all help past and present!

I have web links in a special Excel workbook (xcel97 SR2, win 2k)
Up until today it has worked flawlessly. All of a sudden when I click on
a
link the link opens like a charm but the workbook closes.

Does anyone have an idea of why this behaviour is happening?

thanks in advance...

steve