Opening Excel 2003 file in Excel 2007: Links do not work

[Roshan Q]

I have an Excel 2003-format spreadsheet that I have opened in Excel 2007.
The spreadsheet has links to another (external) 2003-format spreadsheet which
I do not have.

In Excel 2003, when I open the file I am given a dialog box to choose
whether or not to update the links. If I choose to NOT update, then the
values as of the last time the link was updated are displayed.

In Excel 2007, opening the same spreadsheet does not give a dialog box
asking if I want to update the links. Instead, the spreadsheet opens with
all the linked cells (and those depending on the linked cells) displaying
#VALUE!, NA, or #NAME?

How can I open the spreadsheet in 2007 and have it display the last values
of the links?

 

[Dave Peterson]

I'm not sure if this registry tweak will work in xl2007--make a note of anything
you changed/added so you can change it back if it fails...

Jim Rech posted a registry tweak:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Each recipient will have to make this change.

====
I've never seen this question posted with the Name error, though.

 

[Roshan Q]

That did it! There were a couple of differences from the linked article:

• The office version is 12.0.

• The DWORD is a 32-bit, not 64-bit, value.

Other than that, it worked exactly as you said. Thank you!!!

 

[Dave Peterson]

Thanks for posting back.

Now google has it for the next victim!

 

[Jim Rech]

Glad it worked but:

There's nothing in the linked article that said a DWORD is 64 bit. A DWORD
(Double Word, a Word being 16 bit) is by definition 32 bit.

--
Jim
| That did it! There were a couple of differences from the linked article:
|
| . The office version is 12.0.
|
| . The DWORD is a 32-bit, not 64-bit, value.
|
| Other than that, it worked exactly as you said. Thank you!!!
|
| "Dave Peterson" wrote:
|
| > I'm not sure if this registry tweak will work in xl2007--make a note of
anything
| > you changed/added so you can change it back if it fails...
| >
| > Jim Rech posted a registry tweak:
| >
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
| >
| > Each recipient will have to make this change.
| >
| > ====
| > I've never seen this question posted with the Name error, though.
| >
| > Roshan Q wrote:
| > >
| > > I have an Excel 2003-format spreadsheet that I have opened in Excel
2007.
| > > The spreadsheet has links to another (external) 2003-format
spreadsheet which
| > > I do not have.
| > >
| > > In Excel 2003, when I open the file I am given a dialog box to choose
| > > whether or not to update the links. If I choose to NOT update, then
the
| > > values as of the last time the link was updated are displayed.
| > >
| > > In Excel 2007, opening the same spreadsheet does not give a dialog box
| > > asking if I want to update the links. Instead, the spreadsheet opens
with
| > > all the linked cells (and those depending on the linked cells)
displaying
| > > #VALUE!, NA, or #NAME?
| > >
| > > How can I open the spreadsheet in 2007 and have it display the last
values
| > > of the links?
| >
| > --
| >
| > Dave Peterson
| >

 

[Roshan Q]

Jim,

Thank you for your article and reply. On the Windows Vista machine I used,
there were two similar options when adding this value: "DWORD (32-bit)
Value" and QWORD (64-bit) Value"; in my haste to apply the fix, I read the
latter as "DWORD (64-bit) Value". Thank you for the correction!