| [Excel] Excel links break when moved Hi,
I have a spreadsheet that works fine when I set it up, but then when I move it, the formulas link to a new location ie:
='S:\Purchasing\[Addresses.xlsx]Company Details'!B3
when the workbook is copied to a new location the formula changes to the following:
='S:\P1369 John Lewis, Exeter\8. Purchasing\Purchase Orders\[Addresses.xlsx]Company Details'!B3
Basically its now looking for the Addresses workbook in the new folder.
Is there something I am doing wrong? As currently to sort this out I have to update links to manually correct it to the original file?
Thanks in advance
Dan |
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 KilroyPremium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI | Sounds like you need them to be absolute links. You can do it for cells by pressing F4, it changes from A2 to $A$2, this indicates that it will always use A2, so if you copy from A3 to B3 it will still use A2.
Don't know how to do this for a file location, but would assume there is a way. Just trying to point you in the right direction.
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 H2OuUp2Happy to be herePremium
join:2002-03-15
Oklahoma City, OK | reply to Danny_P
You can't just move the file and then open it. You have to do a File Save As so it will remember where the link is at.
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