XL: Delete Links Wizard Available

The Delete Links Wizard is an add-in file for Microsoft Excel that you can use to delete links to external files in one or more workbooks. Currently, the only way to perform this task is to manually delete the links or to use a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro to search, find, and delete the links. These methods may require a significant amount of time if you want to remove all the links to external files. Using the Delete Links Wizard is more efficient than manually deleting the links or running a macro because the wizard contains options that make deleting multiple links easier. These options allow you to easily delete any one of six kinds of links.

The following list contains the link types that the wizard recognizes:

• Master Formula Links
• Defined Name Links
• Hidden Name Links
• Chart Links
• Microsoft Query Links
• Object Links

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Dellinks.exe contains the following files: For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.