How do I find and edit links in Excel?

To get started, go to the Data tab. Select Edit Links from the Connections group. It opens the Edit Links dialogue box, which displays a list of all the referenced workbooks. To convert all related cells to values, click Break Links.

How do I edit a link?

Replace a link that already exists. Right-click anywhere on the link and select Edit Hyperlink from the shortcut menu. Select the text in the Text to display box in the Edit Hyperlink dialogue. Click OK after typing the text you want to use for the link.

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Menu in Excel

4m 57s

How to use LearnVern

3m 20s

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6m 21s

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2m 5s

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5m 23s

Navigation in MS Excel

3m 4s

Shortcuts in MS Excel

4m 15s

Format Painter in MS Excel

2m 29s

Data Entry in MS Excel

5m 9s

Autofill in MS Excel

5m 42s

Data Entry for Date-Time in MS Excel

5m 46s

Undo-Redo in MS Excel

5m 32s

Comments in MS Excel

4m 1s

Saving File in MS Excel

4m 27s

Creating Formula in MS Excel

7m 45s

Copy Formula in Excel

3m 35s

Till Date Formula in MS Excel

3m 36s

Pct Calculation in MS Excel

5m 20s

Absolute in MS Excel

6m 10s

Sum Average in MS Excel

6m 5s

Other Common Functions In MS Excel

7m 52s

Formatting Fonts in MS Excel

3m 49s

Adjusting Rows & Columns in MS Excel

4m 2s

Alignment in MS Excel

7m 10s

Formatting Borders in MS Excel

2m 55s

Formatting Numbers in MS Excel

7m 23s

Formatting Date-Time in MS Excel

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Conditional Formating in MS Excel

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Formatting Tables in MS Excel

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Formatting Shapes in MS Excel

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Resizing Row & Column in MS Excel

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Hide-Unhide Row and Column in MS Excel

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Copy, Move, Insert Data in MS Excel

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Printing in MS Excel

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Page Break Preview in MS Excel

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Page Setup in MS Excel

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Creating Charts in MS Excel

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Types of Chart in MS Excel

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Formatting Charts in MS Excel

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Chart Elements in MS Excel

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Sparklines in MS Excel

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Freezing Workbook in MS Excel

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Splitting Sheets in MS Excel

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Outline in MS Excel

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Manage Multiple Workbook in MS Excel

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Edit Links in MS Excel

How to use Edit Links function

Now we will see that how we use edit links function in MS Excel.

For that we will for score to our data tab and then we will see an 'Edit links' option. It is not available on every worksheet file.

Basically link is where the information of our source file and destination file is stored.

It is mainly used to view all the other files this spreadsheet is linked to, so that you can update or remove the links.

We have already seen that how we can apply formula from different worksheets to single worksheets.

Now if we go to any of the cell and see its trace precedants, then we will notice that whichever cell data is used in any other formula is shown by some arrows. We can also remove those arrows by selecting Remove Arrow option.

So now like this how we can know that whose cell's trace precedents we should see. So for that we have another option which is known as trace dependents which will show that where this cell is used and on double clicking it will also mention the location.

So by using Edit links we can know that from where the data is coming particularly.

Now after performing all the task we can close our workbook file by pressing 'Ctrl+W' key.

Now for example we change some data from over source file, then when we go to our final file where formula is used, we can see a warning in the top mentioning 'Automatic update of links has been disabled'. We can Enable content by selecting it.

So this is how edit link works, if any data is coming from other file it will be activated in that particular file.

FAQs

Select Hyperlink from the Insert tab. You can also use Ctrl+K or right-click the cell or graphic and select Edit Hyperlink from the shortcut menu. Make the adjustments you wish in the Edit Hyperlink dialogue box.

The Edit Links function may be useful if you need to alter or delete links between your spreadsheet and other files. You can view and edit all of the other files linked to your spreadsheet using the Edit Links function.

To get started, go to the Data tab.
Select Edit Links from the Connections group. It opens the Edit Links dialogue box, which displays a list of all the referenced workbooks.
To convert all related cells to values, click Break Links.

Replace a link that already exists.
Right-click anywhere on the link and select Edit Hyperlink from the shortcut menu.
Select the text in the Text to display box in the Edit Hyperlink dialogue.
Click OK after typing the text you want to use for the link.

To enter edit mode, double-click the cell or use F2, then scroll to the end of the URL and press the Space key. Excel will turn a text string into a hyperlink that may be clicked.