XL2000: Links to Closed Workbook with Defined Names Update Slowly

When you choose to update external links to a closed Microsoft Excel workbook, it takes longer than it did in earlier versions of Excel.

This behavior occurs when the following conditions are true:

• You open a workbook in Excel.
  
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• You click Yes when prompted to update the links to another workbook.
  
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• The workbook that you are linking to is closed.
  
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• The workbook that you are linking to has defined names on multiple sheets.

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.

For additional information about a similar problem in Excel, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: