[brandie]

I have set up some Word documents as templates. They have links to an Excel
file, so that when I change a cell in the Excel file, the information flows
through the report next time I update the links. When I start a new project,
I copy the template and the Excel file into a new folder, press Ctrl+F9 and
do a search and replace to make the document's links point to the new correct
Excel file.

This has worked fine for over a year. Now, suddenly, when I open the Word
document and it prompts me if I want to update the links, I say yes. I get
the little progress bar down at the bottom of the screen, but the links do
not update. In order to update the links, I now have to highlight the whole
document and press F9. It also takes literally 5 times as long for the
process to finish doing it this way rather than how long it took for the
links to update upon open before.

I have Office98. The setting for ToolsOptionsGeneralUpdate automatic
links at Open is checked. I've tried reinstalling Office, but it hasn't
helped.

As a side question, I used to get a prompt when I opened Word asking me if I
wanted to update the links. Now, it either doesn't do it when the above
preference isn't checked, or automatically goes into updating them if it is.
Where is the option for this prompt?

[brandie]

EDIT: I don't have Office98. That was a brainfart. I have Office XP Pro.

"brandie" wrote:

I have set up some Word documents as templates. They have links to an Excel
file, so that when I change a cell in the Excel file, the information flows
through the report next time I update the links. When I start a new project,
I copy the template and the Excel file into a new folder, press Ctrl+F9 and
do a search and replace to make the document's links point to the new correct
Excel file.

This has worked fine for over a year. Now, suddenly, when I open the Word
document and it prompts me if I want to update the links, I say yes. I get
the little progress bar down at the bottom of the screen, but the links do
not update. In order to update the links, I now have to highlight the whole
document and press F9. It also takes literally 5 times as long for the
process to finish doing it this way rather than how long it took for the
links to update upon open before.

I have Office98. The setting for ToolsOptionsGeneralUpdate automatic
links at Open is checked. I've tried reinstalling Office, but it hasn't
helped.

As a side question, I used to get a prompt when I opened Word asking me if I
wanted to update the links. Now, it either doesn't do it when the above
preference isn't checked, or automatically goes into updating them if it is.
Where is the option for this prompt?