Showing posts with label excel is your friend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excel is your friend. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2015

finding and breaking external excel links

Apart from the great tips all over the internet such as this one

http://tjshome.com/blog/249/guide/excel/accounting

I find very common when using conditional formatting and copy/pasting from one sheet to another that this link gets created with a reference to the original file. Break links doesn't really break them. Find them by clicking on

Home ribbon, Conditional Formatting, Manage Rules

change the "Show formatting rules for:" drop down to "This worksheet" and look for anything referencing a file instead of a rule, like in this case:



Change the formatting and you are set.