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Wendy has a single Excel worksheet that contains over 1,200 hyperlinks to TIFF files. (These are hyperlinks, not regular links.) Excel hiccupped and had to shut down, so Emily used the AutoSaved files to recover the previously saved file. Now all the previously working hyperlinks don't work. She had the hyperlinks to the images on a shared network drive, but the AutoSave changed the hyperlinks to reference the C: drive. She wonders if there is an easy way to fix them back to the shared network drive.
At first blush it might seem that you could use Excel's regular Find and Replace feature to find the hard drive designation (as in file://c:) and replace it with a network drive (as in file://shareddrive). The problem is that this approach only addresses part of the problem—it only changes the displayed portion of the hyperlink, not the underlying hyperlink itself. The only way you can get to the hyperlink itself is through the use of a macro.
Assuming that all the hyperlinks that need changing are on the same worksheet, then you can use the following macro:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, and Excel in Microsoft 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub FixHyperlinks()
Dim h As Hyperlink
Dim sOld As String
Dim sNew As String
sOld = "c:\"
sNew = "S:\Network\"
For Each h In ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks
h.Address = Replace(h.Address, sOld, sNew)
Next h
End Sub
All you need to do is change the values assigned to the sOld and sNew variables.
Note:
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2026-10-03 10:40:27
J. Woolley
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