OneDrive is again rewriting the Hyperlinks for local files and none of the settings so far have fixed it.

Middle24 0 Reputation points
2025-01-31T06:50:18.2266667+00:00

In Excel the relative Hyperlink to local files can no longer be trusted or used. Once One Drive touches it, the file will be corrupted every time. Just like the MANY comments in these community and web forums.

Even a super simple cell that has a manually entered hyperlink cannot be trusted...

=HYPERLINK(".\filename.pdf")

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/local-files-hyperlinked-in-excel-get-remapped-to/aef04e16-cd29-4f7c-a4a1-67f593685679

https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/10i0x5t/sharepoint_excel_file_changing_the_hyperlinks/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft-365/excel-rewrites-my-hyperlinks-to-sharepoint/1172774

etc...

None of the fixes mentioned anywhere seem to work for Excel/Office 2021 LTSC... This is so frustrating to involuntarily and automatically corrupt all of our hard work over and over again and not provide solutions...

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  1. Jiajing Hua-MFST 14,655 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2025-01-31T09:17:31.3166667+00:00

    Hi @Middle24

    We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

    Could you please provide more details about the changes made to the link to your file and the specific operations that were performed?

    It seems that you are using a hyperlink base address, please share us the base address. I suggest you change the base address to C:\Users\<User name>, which is always available for a check.


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