Microsoft KB Archive/168583

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Article ID: 168583

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q168583


SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to change the source of a link in Microsoft Excel, you may receive one of the following error messages:

Microsoft Excel 97

Cannot link to the file

Microsoft Excel 7.0

Cannot link to a chart

CAUSE

You may receive either of these error messages if you are trying to change a link to a file that has a name that is longer than 122 characters.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, shorten the length of the file name to 122 characters or fewer.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For more information about creating links, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

links, creating


and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Create links to connect to data and files" topic.


Additional query words: XL97 XL

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB168583