Tom,

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yes - they are hyperlinks. It used to work just fine. But not today.
Tried your suggestion, but not only did the workbook still close, the Excel
icon (for the opened session) on the "Start" bar (?) moved down. (never saw
that one before either).

Do you think I should reboot?

steve

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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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