Question : Unable to open <a rel="nofollow" href="http://" target="_blank">http://</a>.... Cannot download the information you requested

On the attached file, I have the following problem: When opening in excel 07, it hangs for a couple minutes, then pops up Unable to open http://.... Cannot download the information you requested (see attached msgbox). This doesn't happen in Excel 03. There are no defined names in the file, no macros, and just one outside link which seems to be causing the problem.

I've checked out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946621, but it didn't seem to help. This happens on different files coming from outside the company, and it slows down my work tremendously.

Is there a way I can avoid this sort of issues altogether, or at least be able to locate which external links are creating it.

Also, in a possibly related issue on this file, there are many names shown by the attached code, where none appear in the Name Manager. How can that be?

Thanks for your help,

Thomas

Code Snippet:

         
             Sub Remove_All_Names_in_Workbook()
Dim nmName As Name
 
On Error Resume Next
 
For Each nmName In ActiveWorkbook.Names
    
    Debug.Print nmName.RefersTo & "  |  " & nmName.Value & "  |  " & InStr(nmName.Value, "#")
 
Next
 
End Sub

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Answer : Unable to open <a rel="nofollow" href="http://" target="_blank">http://</a>.... Cannot download the information you requested

Thomas,

It does appear that the link to another file:

=-'G:\06- June 09\Landing R&O June\Cash\[PO follow-up.xls]Sheet1'!$C$75

generates an http://

type of link - which fails. On my machine, obviously the Excel style cell reference fails because I don't have that file in the right drive and in the right path.

I have run a brief macro to delete all possible hyperlinks in the file and it makes no difference. Only when the cell reference is disabled with a ' does the file load in a sensible period of time.

So are you sure that the file in the cell reference is where you have defined it should be?

Patrick