I work with a rather large spreadsheet that has several hundred external
formulas. All of the spreadsheets are on a server drive. Excel seems to be
changing the path of the formulas from the server (EX: U) to my C: drive. Is
there any way I can stop this from happening?
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Peg G.

One way I've seen this happen is if you have one or more of the linked files
open and you save themto the C:\ drive. This will cause the links in Excel
to follow to the new path (C:\). You didn't mention email, but I've seen
this happen when folks email files back and forth. The links may get changed
to the local Outlook temp folder.

Can you provide any more specific information about when it seems to happen?


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"Peg" wrote:

I work with a rather large spreadsheet that has several hundred external
formulas. All of the spreadsheets are on a server drive. Excel seems to be
changing the path of the formulas from the server (EX: U) to my C: drive. Is
there any way I can stop this from happening?
--
Peg G.

All of the files reside on the server and are never moved or emailed. When
they are changed they are re-saved to their original location on the server.
I started this process a year ago this past January and have never had a
problem until 2 months ago. I noticed that some of the formulas, but not
all, had changed from the server drive: to the C:. I used the Find & Replace
but the next time I opened the spreadsheet, they had randomly changed again.
I have been working with Excel for over 15 years and have never seen formulas
change like this and I am positive no one else has had access to these files.
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Peg G.


"GSnyder" wrote:

One way I've seen this happen is if you have one or more of the linked files
open and you save themto the C:\ drive. This will cause the links in Excel
to follow to the new path (C:\). You didn't mention email, but I've seen
this happen when folks email files back and forth. The links may get changed
to the local Outlook temp folder.

Can you provide any more specific information about when it seems to happen?


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"Peg" wrote:

I work with a rather large spreadsheet that has several hundred external
formulas. All of the spreadsheets are on a server drive. Excel seems to be
changing the path of the formulas from the server (EX: U) to my C: drive. Is
there any way I can stop this from happening?
--
Peg G.

I've never seen anything like that, either. Maybe someone else out there
has...

Good luck!!!

We have the same problem all the time. I have changed the options not to auto
save as the locations for the auto save is the same location the links are
changing.

We are about rady to scrap Excel 2007 because of this, it has screwed up too
many spread sheets, we have hundreds that are linked and it becomes a real
mess.
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"GSnyder" wrote:

I've never seen anything like that, either. Maybe someone else out there
has...

Good luck!!!

Boy, do I understand your frustration! Thanks.
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Peg G.


"Macro King" wrote:

We have the same problem all the time. I have changed the options not to auto
save as the locations for the auto save is the same location the links are
changing.

We are about rady to scrap Excel 2007 because of this, it has screwed up too
many spread sheets, we have hundreds that are linked and it becomes a real
mess.
--
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"GSnyder" wrote:

I've never seen anything like that, either. Maybe someone else out there
has...

Good luck!!!