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If there are hidden worksheets, unhide them and complete all of the steps above on the sheets that were hidden.

If this option is greyed out, the file probably doesn’t contain any hidden sheets however, be sure to also check for Very Hidden Sheets with the Visual Basic Editor.

Check for hidden worksheets by going to the Format Sheet Unhide menu.

If you or anyone else has hidden any worksheets in the file, there may be links on these hidden sheets.

Amend or Delete the Rule to remove the Link.

Check each Rule to ensure they are referencing data in an external file.

Select “This Worksheet” from the drop down.

Go to the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager.

Repeat steps above for the remaining worksheets in the file.

Save, close and reopen the file to see if this has solved the problem.

Leave them all checked and click the Inspect button at the bottom of the dialog box. The Document Inspector displays where you can choose what content to check for.

Select Paste Special and then select Validation Click Inspect Document under the Check for Issues dropdown arrow.

Select all cells with Validation press the F5 key, click the “Special” button and select “Data validation”.

The easiest test is to remove all Validation and see if the link remains (you may want to make a copy of your file before performing this step).

Links can exist as part of Data Validation criteria.

Close and reopen the file to see if this has solved the problem (you may want to make a copy of your file before performing this step).

Delete these objects and then save the file.

On each worksheet, press the F5 key, click the “Special” button and select “Objects”.

Links can exist in Object such as text boxes, auto shapes or drawing objects.

If any of the charts is referring to cells in another file, change or delete the data references.

Check the data ranges and x-axis labels for each chart to ensure that they are not referencing data in another file.

If there are any charts in the file, the charts may be linked to cells in another Excel file.

If any of these names is referring to cells in another file, change or delete the Name.

Select each Name to see what is in the “Refers To” box.

If you find a real link, change the file reference or delete the link.

You can use the * wildcard character in your search.

From the File tab (2010) or the Office Button menu (2007), select Save As. To use the Document Inspector: Open an Office document to inspect for hidden data or personal information.

Search all tabs simultaneously by pressing Shift + Ctrl + Page Down and then running the search Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 20 use the Document Inspector tool to search for and remove both personal data and tracked changes to a document.

Run a search (Ctrl + F) for the file that appears in the Edit Links menu.

Go to the Edit menu and select the Links option towards the bottom (if this option is grayed out, then there are no real formula links).To remove Phantom Links from a workbook, first check to make sure that there are not any non-phantom links in the file.

#DOCUMENT INSPECTOR IN EXCEL UPDATE#

When you’re finished, close the Document Inspector dialog and save your changes.If you have ever opened an Excel file and been prompted to update links to another file, yet you are certain that there are no links to any other files, your file may contain phantom links. Simply click on Remove All to delete all headers, footers and watermarks in your document. When the Document Inspector dialog box appears, uncheck all boxes except Headers, Footers, and Watermarks. From the Info pane, click on Check for Issues and then select Inspect Document from the pop-up menu. Open your Word document and go to the File tab of the Ribbon. Method 2: Remove Header or Footer in Word Using Document Inspector You can use the similar methods to remove the headers from your Word document. Now, all text or other stuff in the footers section should disappear. Just click on Footer and then choose Remove Footer from the drop-down menu. Under the Header & Footer tab of the Ribbon, you will see the Header item and Footer item in the sub-item list. Next, click on the Edit Footer button that appeared. Method 1: Remove Header or Footer in Word via Right-clickĪfter opening your Word document, right-click on the footer at the bottom of any page. How can I remove footers from a Word document prior to printing? This header takes up too much space and you need to delete it? In this tutorial we’ll show you easy ways to remove header and footer in Microsoft Office Word 2019 / 2016.

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