External link error, but I didn't create any external link.

**DavidObeid** · 09-28-2014, 07:03 AM

Greetings,

I hope someone can help with this.

I am using Excel 365. I created a spreadsheet that when I try to open in the excel online app gives an error saying, “Links disabled. Links to external workbooks are not supported and have been disabled.”

My problem is that I didn't create any external links and that I can't find any in the entire workbook. I have tried doing a “find” on a square bracket “[“ (without the quote marks, and searching the workbook and looking in formulas) but found no occurrences of the square bracket.

Help please!

**martindwilson** · 09-28-2014, 08:26 AM

is there anything in Name manager?

**accedeholdings** · 09-29-2014, 01:14 AM

I also experienced that same error. What I did is to create another account then try creating spreadsheet again and the error is still there. That came to my senses to shift to Google Docs.