Hyperlinks to Specific Excel Cells Fail After Email is Sent

[Guest]

Hi All: I posted this on the Excel board but didn't get a response. Perhaps
it's more of an Outlook issue:

Office 2003 on XP

I compose an email with hyperlinks to specific cells in an Excel workbook on
a shared drive at work. When I click the links before sending the email,
they open to the cells I've specified, but in the email I send (which I
receive and check from my workstation), clicking the various links just opens
the Excel file to the last place it was when it closed, seemingly with no
regard for my specified addresses. Any idea what gives?

Many thanks,
Luke

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Office 2003 on XP

I compose an email with hyperlinks to specific cells in an Excel workbook
on
a shared drive at work. When I click the links before sending the email,
they open to the cells I've specified, but in the email I send (which I
receive and check from my workstation), clicking the various links just
opens
the Excel file to the last place it was when it closed, seemingly with no
regard for my specified addresses. Any idea what gives?

What happens if you IM the URL?

What happens if you break the url (add spaces here and there in the message)
and then walk over to the other persons machine and undo the breaking and
try clicking on it?

 

[Guest]

Ahhh...good troubleshooting ideas. I'll investigate. Thanks, F.H.

 

[Guest]

Well, I'm still flummoxed by this one. F.H.'s suggestions yielded no
conclusive data (to me). I don't have an I.M. client so I didn't try that,
but breaking the URL, sending, then fixing brought the same results: a
reference to a specific cell that was lost in transmission.

But I do have new data (this all concerns links to files on a local server):

1. References to specific slides in PowerPoint also get lost in transmission.

2. Hovering over the link within a received message shows the proper
specified reference (e.g. the slide number in PP or bookmarked cell in
Excel) BUT, upon clicking the link, the "Opening Mail Attachment" dialog
box/warning only displays the pathname up to the folder containing the file.

3. A colleague sent me an email with a link to a specific PP slide but it,
too, only opened to the first slide. But when I forward his message (but
before sending it), I can open to the specified location.

The path looks like this:
\\servername\subfolder\sub 1\sub 2\sub 3\file.ppt#82