Thanks Bob,
That was what was causing the error message. For some reason McAfee firewall
decided to block Word but not Excel (I never set the block). After unblocking
word, it works. Thanks again!

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi D.,

Are you using a Firewall product? If so, does
it have Word set up as allowed to access the Internet?
If not, you'll get that message.

Compare your firewall settings for Excel and Word.

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"dnelson1" wrote in message ...
What is even more confusing is that I opened Excel and placed a hyperlink for
google in a cell and it worked fine
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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