Excel Links not working. Workaround other than changing HKEY

jackson1990

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So, I am having trouble with my links in Excel. They are using a redirect service and have a login on our site. This is so that even after the user is using the excel if we update a file it has the most up to date link as we use a redirect. So, that's why I am using redirects instead of direct links in. Basically we have a static link that's the redirect, call this redirect.com/Name. So we can change where this redirects to at any point by going to redirect.com and changing it. That way when the user is using this excel sheet we can dynamically update the links externally so they have the most updated files. I'm currently having this issue.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ng-hyperlink-in-office-cannot-locate-the-inte

Now I have about 100+ users using this, so having each download the HKEY fix would be hellish to say the least. Especially with varying degrees of technical understanding.

Any suggestions for workarounds?

Could I use parameters in the link to somehow bypass this? Or VBA on sheet open to somehow force IE to work with this (as it seems the cause is it first checks the link through IE in the background to see if it works instead of just directly going to the default browser)

Thanks everyone!
 

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