Microsoft KB Archive/287824

= OL2002: A Task Item Shortcut Does Not Open an Excel File on a Share Point Server =

Article ID: 287824

Article Last Modified on 6/1/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q287824



SYMPTOMS
If you create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to save to a Share Point server document folder, and then click the Create Outlook Task button, a Task item is created with a shortcut link to the spreadsheet.

When the Task item is received and the recipient attempts to open the spreadsheet by clicking the link, Outlook reports that the link to the Excel spreadsheet is broken.



WORKAROUND
Use one of the following methods to work around this problem:
 * 1) Use a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) hyperlink in the Task item instead of including a shortcut. -or-


 * 1) Share a virtual drive and create a shortcut to the information.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix KB287824

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