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After creating then accessing Excel hyperlink I get a consistent error. What is the cause?

Posted on 2013-01-07

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Excel 2013
Mozilla (default browser)

The same hyperlink works in Mozilla just fine. But from within excel I receive this error:

cannot locate the internet server or proxy server

I can I salvage this.

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Question by:rhservan

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by:andrewssd3

ID: 387522872013-01-07

Perhaps your link is not quite right in Excel. Does it start with http:// ? It would help if you could post your sheet so we can see what's going on.

Thanks

Stuart

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by:rhservan

ID: 387529332013-01-07

Here is the file.

It has two links created in it, both have the same error returned as previously discussed.
test.xlsx

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by:andrewssd3

ID: 387539272013-01-08

This works fine for me in Excel 2007 with Chrome, although it complains about the certificate for the second link. I don't really have any other suggestions, unless it's something related to your Trust Center settings

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by:rhservan

ID: 387550602013-01-08

After allowing an excel rule on my outbound side firewall I was able to open the link normally.

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by:rhservan

ID: 387552072013-01-08

I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for rhservan's comment #a38755060

for the following reason:

I selected my solution since it was correct and exactly the answer required.

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by:andrewssd3

andrewssd3 earned 500 total points

ID: 387552082013-01-08

It would be nice to get at least some points for this as I took your file and gave you independent verification that it worked on other machines. I also suggested that it may be something to do with security settings, which proved to be the case.

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