#Fix broken links excel update#
#Fix broken links excel full#
#Fix broken links excel zip#
#Fix broken links excel mac#

At this point you should see something like this in the terminal window:.

NOTES (because I can't continue the numbered list in this editor) Just select the right target sheet, and things will track the updates correctly. When you change this, it may ask you to grant permissions or it may ask you this if you try and edit the file.

Open and make sure your charts are updated to the right document.

#Fix broken links excel zip#

Zip up the updated source bundle: 'zip -r. Make sure you're in the right directory: 'cd /tmp/pptdoc' process the whole lot in one go using the technique below** open all of them in vim so you can manually edit them: 'grep -rn FILENAME.xlsx | xargs -o vi'

#Fix broken links excel mac#

open all of them with TextEdit so you can manually edit them in a Mac application: 'grep -rn FILENAME.xlsx | xargs -e' List all of the files you need to change: 'grep -rn XYZZY.xlsx' where XYZZY.xlsx is the name of your spreadsheet without the path you pasted before Type (without the quotes) ' /tmp' (note the space) and hit return so the file is copied to the /tmp directoryД¬hange to the /tmp directory using 'cd /tmp'Д¬hange into the new directory 'cd pptdoc' Select the file you want to fix in the Finder and drag/drop it to the Terminal window Type (without the quotes) 'cp ' into the terminal window (note the space) Open a Terminal window from Applications > Terminal.app No, seriously, create a backup of your original file.

#Fix broken links excel update#

To update the links in the powerpoint to a new spreadsheet (if you've changed the name): YMMV.Д«TW, this will also require command line and text editing, so it depends on how much you're comfortable with using these tools on a Mac as an Office user. However, if you get it wrong, you could corrupt your file, so make a backup first. Note that this isn't pretty, but it does work. For me, the procedure below is easier than repasting all my charts and changing the color scheme for about 25 charts, but it might not be optimal if you only have one or two.

#Fix broken links excel full#

I didn't figure out a good, user-friendly way to do this, but, if you have a presentation full of charts and you do something crazy like version the source spreadsheet using filenames (because nobody would ever do that), you need to update the links or recreate a bunch of files. This is the link that needs to be changed. It's classic Microsoft XML with heavy use of attributes, but what you want is the last line that references your file name. ppt/charts/_rels/ documents to change the filename of the Excel data source, zip it back up and then open the new document.Д®ach of the files in question is created for each embedded chart, and it looks like this (indented for clarity): What you need to do is update each of the. I'm copying the vast majority of the comment because it's relatively complicated. Here's a discussion that I found about it: Д®dit: From the link posted previously, this appears to be the solution. I misread the title as asking to fix a broken link in an Excel chart, bit realized I was in r/powerpoint after I posted. Just right-click the hyperlink and select Edit Hyperlink. If you can't select Edit Links, that means it's a hyperlink rather than a linked object. Select Change Source, navigate to the file location, Select Change Source, then Close.

Paste the copied link and leave the Replace field blank.In the Source File box, select the link you want to fix.

Press Ctrl + h for opening the replace dialogue box.

Make sure that the exact same sheet as the source sheet also exists in your current workbook.

Copy the link, shown with the square brackets inside the formula.

Find a cell relating to another workbook within a formula.

If you want to avoid that the formulas are removed you might want to try another (more manual) approach: Using the replace function in Excel to replace the links with nothing: Please be careful: all cells referring to other workbooks within formulas will be changed to values.

Select all the data links youвЂ™d like to kill.

If the вЂњEdit LinksвЂќ button is not greyed out it means that there is at least one active link to another data source (usually another workbook).

Usually, вЂњnormalвЂќ workbook links within formulas can be cut easily with the вЂEdit LinksвЂ™ function included in Excel (the numbers are corresponding with the picture on the right hand side):