Links to mapped drive change to refer to local hard drive

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SueD - 30 Apr 2008 14:14 GMT

We are running Excel 2000 under Windows XP. There are several spreadsheets
residing in a folder on a server to which 4 people have their O drive mapped.
These spreadsheets contain links to other files within these folders.

For 3 of the people, the links work perfectly but for one person, all the
links change to refer to his XLSTART folder on his local hard drive.

I have double checked his mapped drive and his netowrk permissions to these
folders. I have disconnected remapped the drive without success.

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SueD - 08 May 2008 11:42 GMT

Having spent hours of investigation on this, I have just discovered that the
other people all have the mapped drive listed as the alternate startup
location in Tools - Options - General.

When I put this into the alternate startup location on the 4th computer,
this worked for him too.

> We are running Excel 2000 under Windows XP. There are several spreadsheets
> residing in a folder on a server to which 4 people have their O drive mapped.
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> I have double checked his mapped drive and his netowrk permissions to these
> folders. I have disconnected remapped the drive without success.

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