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Object Link not updating
james 12/17/2008 5:31:01 PM
Hi,
I have a document that I save as htm file using word. In the file is a link
to an excel spreadsheet. I want the link to update everytime the document
gets opened in word however every time I open it an annoying error says 'This
document contains links that may refer to other files. Do you want to update
this docuemtn with the data from the linked files?' I click yes and it does
not update. I have to manually right click the link and click update. How can
I get it to do automatically ? The options are all set to update
automatically but it is not. I am using Word 03.
Thanks
Re: Object Link not updating
Cindy M. <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 12/18/2008 8:16:34 AM
Hi James,

[Quoted Text]
> I have a document that I save as htm file using word. In the file is a link
> to an excel spreadsheet. I want the link to update everytime the document
> gets opened in word however every time I open it an annoying error says 'This
> document contains links that may refer to other files. Do you want to update
> this docuemtn with the data from the linked files?' I click yes and it does
> not update. I have to manually right click the link and click update. How can
> I get it to do automatically ? The options are all set to update
> automatically but it is not. I am using Word 03.
>
The one thing that occurs to me that you may not have looked at is the field
code maintaining the linked object. Alt+F9 will toggle the field codes on. Is
this a Linked field? Does it contain a \a switch? If not, try adding that at the
end of the field (before the closing bracket } ) and see if that makes a
difference.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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