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You may encounter problems with links after applying MS12-030

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After installing MS12-030 (https://support.microsoft.com/KB/2597166 for Excel 2010 or https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597162 for Excel 2007) you may notice a problem with files that contain links to other spreadsheets.

This problem won't happen to all users and may not affect all of the links in the spreadsheet, but some of the links may be affected the following way:

Spreadsheet 1 is located in Folder 1 and contains a UNC link to Spreadsheet 2 which is located in folder 2. After applying this security update you may find that Spreadsheet 1 now links to the same file, but in Folder 1 where it doesn't exist.

More Information

This problem only affects UNC links and only affects the new Office file format - in other words XLSX, XLSM, etc. The legacy XLS file format is not affected.

Fix

The following fix will resolve this problem. You must apply the August 2012 cumulative update and recreate the links.

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2730388

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2012
    Any further updates??? I have several files impacted by this and it's a mess to say the least.

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2012
    One option to fix this is to uninstall update KB2597162 for Excel 2007 or update KB2597166 for Excel 2010.   These are the updates that caused the linking issue.

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2012
    Still no fix for this update? It has been over a month now without any updates on the issue.

  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2012
    Has this been fixed with a patch from this months patch tuesday?, been a while and it's causing problems!

  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2012
    This issue still doesn't appear to be resolved!!!

  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2012
    On machines that have both Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed, these security updates break VB6 add-ins, and you get: Microsoft Visual Basic: Automation error. Unspecified error. What happened to Microsoft's commitment that VB6 applications would continue to work? They also got broken when certain MSDAO interfaces got deprecated. Then there was also the .EXD files that had to be deleted. Why???

  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2012
    Here is a Hotfix that should solve the problem: support.microsoft.com/.../2597166