Breaking links between workbooks

wlbamc

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Hi, I have a workbook with links to 3 other workbooks, unfortunately my work decided to change the shared drive from drive I to drive S so my links now state they cannot be found, I have gone into data and edit links but it will not let me either change or break the links. Any help gratefully received.
 

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You could try a little bit of VBA if it is only the Drive letter that has changed. I am assuming they are inside a formula. Example shown below:

Sub ChangeLinks()
ActiveWorkbook.ChangeLink "I:\documents\book1.xlsx", _ "S:\documents\book2.xlsx", xlExcelLinks
End Sub

Not tested though.
 
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You could try a little bit of VBA if it is only the Drive letter that has changed. I am assuming they are inside a formula. Example shown below:

Sub ChangeLinks()
ActiveWorkbook.ChangeLink "I:\documents\book1.xlsx", _ "S:\documents\book2.xlsx", xlExcelLinks
End Sub

Not tested though.
Great thanks, worked a treat
 
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Pleased to help and thanks for letting me know.
 
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