Monday, May 16, 2005

No need to update links on Excel Graphs

If you have an Excel Workbook with Graphs and you email it to someone, as soon as the other person opens the workbook, by default, Excel will ask if it should update the links. If the other person does not have access to the data you used to create the graph, meaning if the other person is not mapped to your computer or to the same network shared folder where the data resides, then the other person must decline to update the links.



If you copy and paste your Excel Graph into a new workbook, the links will carry over. However, if you press the SHIFT and CTRL key at the same time you click on Edit on the top menu bar, you will see a new option which allows copying the graph as a picture--no linked data.

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