You will need to unprotect this sheet or go to another sheet before you try and break links. B) If a cell within a protected sheet is linked to an external file then you won’t be able to break links. Excel® will give you a warning that the external link cannot be broken due to the sheet being protected.
Sometimes when you click on the edit links menu for breaking the links between the excel files, the break links button gets dimmed out and becomes non functional. It happens when the sheet or the workbook is protected.
Moreover, why can’t I break links in a protected sheet?
The favorite answer is b) If a cell within a protected sheet is linked to an external file then you won’t be able to break links. Excel® will give you a warning that the external link cannot be broken due to the sheet being protected. Excel® won’t be helpful enough to tell you which sheet contains the external link so you may need to go searching for it.
To break links click DATA RIBBON – (CONNECTIONS sub menu) EDIT LINKS. You will see a list of external links that your current file is linking to. You can click each of the files and then click BREAK LINK.
How to break links between excels?
Go to the Professor Excel ribbon. Click on the ‘Break Link Manager’ within the ‘Workbook Tools’ group (the button with crossed out link on it). Select all the link types you’d like to break and click on start. Now Professor Excel will break all the links. This procedure can take some time, especially if you have a lot of data in your workbook.
Select the Break Link button. You will get a confirmation if you want to break the external links. Select the “Break Links” button. You will get the previous window without any external link. Now whatever changes you made with workbook Example 1, Example 2 won’t get affected. Break links are an easy way to edit the source or references.
How to break external links in an Excel workbook?
If you do not want the External links in your Excel workbook and want to break the links, you can follow the below steps: Open the Excel file containing the External link> File> Info> Edit Links to Files> Select the source> Break Links.
One of the next things we asked ourselves was how to break link to selected file in Excel?
Select the link and click on the break links option. This should break the link to selected file. Now sometimes it happens that the break link button is dimmed out and does not work . And sometimes the break link option button is working but id does not break links. Let’s see each case and solve them. Break links button is dimmed out.
How do I Break a link in a formula?
The good news: there are still ways to break these links. Usually, “normal” workbook links within formulas can be cut easily with the ‘Edit Links’ function included in Excel (the numbers are corresponding with the picture on the right hand side): Go to the Data ribbon.
How do I Break a link in a text file?
On the Data tab, in the Connections group, click Edit Links. Note: The Edit Links command is unavailable if your file does not contain linked information. In the Source list, click the link that you want to break. To select multiple linked objects, hold down the CTRL key, and click each linked object. To select all links, press Ctrl+A.
We discovered if you keep using these functions for some time, you will end up creating several links between some files. You can easily break the regular links, but some links can be very stubborn. The break link option does not work in this regard.