Delete server connections from excel

[nikio8]

Hi all,
recently there seems to be a problem in excel where it constantly crashes.
I am trying to make it as simple as possible with as few features as possible.

The spreadsheet has few "workbook connections" to a local server. When I open data / connections/ they are there, but there does not exit a button to remove them.

Can they be removed? I only need one connection to another excel file, not even sure how this one was created as file is quite simple.

Thanks in advance,
Nick

 

[jmacleary]

Hi there. Which version of excel are you using? In excel 2007, when you open the list of connections, the second button down on the right hand side is Remove. If the workbook is protected that would be greyed out.

 

[nikio8]

hi jm
excel 365. i'll have another look, I could not see remove button.
from its conception the file is possibly 10 years old, it could have some quirks.
so far I am thinking to try, rebooting, deleting some .odc?? files from my connection folder. reinstalling office.
creating completely new file and slowly copy paste each sheet.
very rarely is there any advice on how to connect to server directly, possibly this is my chance to practice some more.
but as this is work, I cannot waste too much time

 

[jmacleary]

Ah. 365 has some difficulties in this area. On another site I found this code that will remove ALL connections. You could use it to remove them all and then just reinstate the one you need. Alternatively, the code could be modified to skip over the one you want to keep.

Sub Remove()
Dim connection As WorkbookConnection
Dim query As WorkbookQuery
On Error Resume Next
For Each connection In ThisWorkbook.Connections
    connection.Delete
Next
For Each query In ThisWorkbook.Queries
    query.Delete
Next
End Sub

 

[nikio8]

hi, will try. that is quite disappointing.
But i will make a copy of the file and run it tomorrow.

 

[nikio8]

Found it. I knew it was something simple.
Data, power queries and connections. Then go to connections and delete.
However the file got corrupted and was looking for missing vba dll.
I recreated it. was not too bad, forgot to copy one sheet, but it seems to work ok and file is 20x smaller.

 

[jmacleary]

Glad you found the answer, well done! And well done for posting the solution.