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Thanks for the tips, I am trying this now.

One item I tested this AM. I had the user go to another PC and work on the
offending file for several hours with no problem. As soon as she returned
to her desk the problem reappeared. This leads me to believe the problem or
function is local to her workstation. Does this change or views or spark
any new ideas?


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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I'd open excel in safe mode first (disabling all macros):

close excel
windows start button
Run
excel /safe

Then open that workbook to see if it still happens. (Some macros aren't

visible
via Tools|Macro|Macros dialog.)

You may want to check under the ThisWorkbook and the sheet modules, too.

Debra Dalgleish has some pictures at her site (for a different purpose),

but it
might be helpful to you, too.

http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqMac.html#NoMacros

Robin Witkop-Staub wrote:

I don't get it either - it is quite strange.

I have talked to the user and she says she can not detect any pattern
causing the issue.

Do you thnk a simple uninstall/reinstall would fix it?

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Generally, excel doesn't create things on its own.

Does it happen randomly or is there a correlation with what is being
entered.

the assumption is that the user is not entering URLs or email

addresses
which Excel does convert to Hyperlinks - that this is some totally
unexpected behavior.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy
Robin Witkop-Staub wrote

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message ...
I checked the Autocorrect and nothing seemed unusual or setup to

replace
with weblink. I shut off Autocorrect for testing.

Only Addon she has enabled is the Analysis Toolpak. She was using

the
Autosave addon but she shut that off last week for testng too.

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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I would look at the users AutoCorrect listing under

Tools=Autocorrect
and
see if there is a defintion that turns an entry into a hyperlink.


If you don't find anything there, see what addins are loaded.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Robin Witkop-Staub"

wrote
in
message ...
I have a user that uses Excel 2000 quite a bit. She suddenly

started
having
problems with hyperlinks being added to all the cells in her

file.
Everytime she clicked on a cell it tried to open a specific

webpage.
I
thought it was a one-time mistake so I downloaded and created a

macro
called
"removeHyperlinks" from mrexcel.com to automatically remove all

the
hyperlinks in the cells. This worked and I thought it was

solved.

The next day she called me back and said the hyperlinks were

back,
and
it
was happening in more than one file now. She states she will be
working
along and suddenly they hyperlinks appear. She has to create

the
"RemoveHyperlinks" macro in the file and run it to keep working.
After
a
while it happens again. I looked and I do not see any other

macro's
in
the
list except for the "RemoveHyperlinks" one I made. What else

could
be
causing this behavior?

Here is the macro I created in case it is relevant:
Sub RemoveHyperLinks()
Range("A2:A999").Hyperlinks.Delete
End Sub













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Dave Peterson