Microsoft KB Archive/213650

= Error opening file that refers to shortcut =

Article ID: 213650

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Excel 2007
 * Microsoft Office Excel 2003
 * Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213650





For a Microsoft Excel 97 and earlier versions of Excel version of this article, see 132976.



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel, when you open a workbook that contains a reference to a shortcut to a workbook, one of the following symptoms occurs:  If the workbook that you open contains the defined name "Auto_Open" that refers to a macro in the shortcut to the workbook, you receive the following error message

Cannot find ' '! , which has been assigned to run each time [ ] is opened. Continuing could cause errors. Cancel opening [ ]?

where  is the name of the shortcut to the workbook that contains your macro,   is the name of the macro you want to run automatically,   is the name of the workbook that you are opening that contains the Auto_Open defined name. If the workbook that you open contains a link to a cell in the shortcut to the workbook, the File Not Found dialog box appears (if you choose to reestablish the link).



CAUSE
In Microsoft Windows, you can create a shortcut to any program, document, or printer, and put this shortcut in any folder or on the desktop. This makes it easy to access the objects that you use most frequently. However, if you create a link or reference to a shortcut to a workbook in a Microsoft Excel workbook, the behavior described in the "Symptoms" section occurs because Microsoft Excel does not recognize the workbook that the shortcut refers to.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, create the link or reference to the original workbook instead of to a shortcut to the workbook.

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