Error opening hyperlinks in Excel 2003
- by richardtallent
When clicking to follow hyperlinks from Excel, I'm now getting this error:
Unable to open http://blah... Cannot download the information you requested.
The hyperlinks in the Excel file are created using the HYPERLINK() formula.
I use Google Chrome as my default browser. The web site in question uses Basic Authentication, and I've entered correct credentials when prompted (the dialog looked like an IE auth box, not Chrome's, but it's always been that way, even when it was working properly).
This hasn't been an issue until recently. I'm guessing our IT department made some lame change to IE's configuration that is causing Office to not be able to open the URLs, despite having Chrome as my browser.
Things I've checked already:
URLs are good, they work fine when pasted manually into Chrome, IE, or Firefox.
IE is not set to Work Offline (already found that suggestion on Google).
I checked Program Access and Defaults and verified that Chrome is selected.
Nothing in the URL requires URLEncoding, so it's no goofy issue with encoding
I've had reports from some other users now and then about the same problem, but this is the first time I've experienced it myself.
