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How to find and break external links in Excel?
In Excel, we usually create some external links for some purposes, however, after finishing the specific purpose, you may want to find and break all the external links. Here I introduce you the tricks to quickly find and break external links.
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Find and break external links with Edit Link function
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If you want to find and break external links, you can apply Edit Link function.
1. Click Data > Edit Links. See screenshot:
2. In the Edit Links dialog, select a workbook that you want to break the external links, and then click Break Link. See screenshot:
3. In the popping out warning dialog box, please click the Break Links button. See screenshot:
4. Then repeat step 2 to break all external links from the whole workbook. After removing all external links, please close the Edit Links dialog box.
Find and break external links with Kutools for Excel
With above method, you will break all the external links from the same workbook, but in sometimes, you may want to break some of the external links from different worksheets, in this case, you can use Kutools for Excel’s Find and Break Broken Links function to solve.
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After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:
1. Click Kutools > Link > Find and Break Broken Links. See screenshot:
2. In the Find and Break Broken Links dialog, you can see all the external links are list in the dialog, and check the links you want to break and then click Break link to break all the checked links.
Tip:
1. In the Find and Break Broken Links dialog, you can filter links based on linked worksheet by selecting the sheet name from the Filter dropdown list.
2. You also can view the cell in actual time when you click the link in the Find and Break Broken Links dialog after checking View cell option.
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How to break all external links in Excel?
When we use Excel workbook, sometimes, we may create some external links to other workbooks for the data for some purpose. But how could you break all the links at once without breaking them one by one?
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Break all external links with VBA code
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If you want to break all of the external links, both the ok and error links, the following VBA code can help you to break them all.
1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
3. Then press F5 key to run the code, and all of the external links in the whole workbook have been broken.
Break all / broken / specified external links with Kutools for Excel
The above VBA code force you to break all of the links in the whole workbook, but if you just only need to break some specific links, such as broken links, in this case, the VBA code will not work.
With Kutools for Excel’s Find and Break broken Links function, you can break all of the links, the broken links, the ok links, and the specified link source links.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Click Kutools > Link Tools > Find and Break broken Links, see screenshot:
2. In the Find and Break broken Links dialog box, all of the external links in the active worksheet are listed in the list box. You can choose the link type which you want to break from the Filter drop down list. See screenshots:
3. In this case, I choose All broken links, and only the broken links have been listed into the list box, see screenshot:
4. Then click Break link button, all the broken links will be selected and deleted from the active worksheet.
Note: If the View cell option is checked, when you click on the link in the list, it will find and navigate to the specific cell which contains the link in the worksheet.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This little piece worked like a charm! Thank you so much!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi there, this fix worked great for some of the files with broken links, but encountered an issue when the reference points to a Hyperlink and not a path, do you have any Ideas,on how to also break those, even when I go to edit links and click break, it does nothing.