Is there any way to stop Excel from trying to udate external links when
copying ranges (with External links) from one sheet to another in VBA.

Thanks

xlmonkey -

I might be wrong but you probably would be better off making a copy of the
file to work on as I dont think that excel pushes data to linked objects.

I think they get from the data source.

I havent tried different settings but probably depending on your security
settings when you open a file which is linked to a excel file as a data
source it asks if you would like to update / check for new source data.

HTH

Rob

"ExcelMonkey" wrote in message
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Is there any way to stop Excel from trying to udate external links when
copying ranges (with External links) from one sheet to another in VBA.

Thanks

What I am doing is copying an existing sheet over to a new empty sheet. I
need to do this as I want to see how the formulas update when I copy it
across by 1 column. For example, I copy the range A1:C10 from the first
sheet to the new sheet in cell B1 (the new range now resides in the new sheet
B1:D10). I then assess the formulas in this new range relative to the
formulas in the old range. However when I do this, I get "File not Found"
Message. I am assuming I am getting this as the original formulas have links
to files which may not exist anymore. I actually do not care about the data
in the cells only the formulas. So I do not even want the data to be
updated. I only want to see the formulas updated. I originally thought that
I had to make the DisplayAlerts = False. This didn't work. Then I tried
Application.AskToUpdateLinks = False. This doesn't work either. The
dialogue box keeps coming up. I do not want to see the dialogue box at all.
What can I do if I want to keep this routine in tact and not see the dialogue
box?

EM

"Rob Hargreaves" wrote:

xlmonkey -

I might be wrong but you probably would be better off making a copy of the
file to work on as I dont think that excel pushes data to linked objects.

I think they get from the data source.

I havent tried different settings but probably depending on your security
settings when you open a file which is linked to a excel file as a data
source it asks if you would like to update / check for new source data.

HTH

Rob

"ExcelMonkey" wrote in message
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Is there any way to stop Excel from trying to udate external links when
copying ranges (with External links) from one sheet to another in VBA.

Thanks

application.displayalerts = false

will stop you getting those messages.
formulas that cannot be evaluated are inserted as TEXT

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ExcelMonkey wrote :

What I am doing is copying an existing sheet over to a new empty
sheet. I need to do this as I want to see how the formulas update
when I copy it across by 1 column. For example, I copy the range
A1:C10 from the first sheet to the new sheet in cell B1 (the new
range now resides in the new sheet B1:D10). I then assess the
formulas in this new range relative to the formulas in the old range.
However when I do this, I get "File not Found" Message. I am
assuming I am getting this as the original formulas have links to
files which may not exist anymore. I actually do not care about the
data in the cells only the formulas. So I do not even want the data
to be updated. I only want to see the formulas updated. I
originally thought that I had to make the DisplayAlerts = False.
This didn't work. Then I tried Application.AskToUpdateLinks = False.
This doesn't work either. The dialogue box keeps coming up. I do
not want to see the dialogue box at all. What can I do if I want to
keep this routine in tact and not see the dialogue box?

EM

"Rob Hargreaves" wrote:

xlmonkey -

I might be wrong but you probably would be better off making a copy
of the file to work on as I dont think that excel pushes data to
linked objects.

I think they get from the data source.

I havent tried different settings but probably depending on your
security settings when you open a file which is linked to a excel
file as a data source it asks if you would like to update / check
for new source data.

HTH

Rob

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Is there any way to stop Excel from trying to udate external
links when copying ranges (with External links) from one sheet to
another in VBA.

Thanks