Microsoft KB Archive/20816

Multiplan: Maximum Number of External Links PSS ID Number: Q20816 Article last modified on 01-11-1991 PSS database name: D_MPlan

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MS-DOS

Summary:

The External List command can show up to eight files that support the current worksheet or that depend on the current worksheet. However, this has no effect on the maximum number of links that can be made, only on the reporting of those links. The maximum number of actual possible links is limited only by memory. If there is adequate memory to store the data copied, the link will be made.

More Information:

The dependent worksheet’s external list is reevaluated only when the worksheet is saved in symbolic mode. Multiplan determines at that time whether or not a link is still valid. To make the external list correct (up to the first eight links it is capable of showing) is as follows:


 * 1) Save the file in SYLK.
 * 2) Load it in SYLK.
 * 3) Save the file again as Normal.

The supporting worksheet’s external list is not saved when the worksheet is saved in SYLK file format. The receipt (showing that this file supports another one) is written to the binary file when the link is first established.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.