Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

Other day, I was getting below “The Linked file isn’t available” pop-up, while opening a word document shared by client.

Reason:

• Word document has charts and graphs controls embedded, which were rendering based on the data from another excel sheet.
• Excel sheet had configured as a linked file in the Word document
• Since Excel sheet was not shared by client in the first go, Word document was showing “The Linked file isn’t available” popup.

Fix:

• Once you got the link file (i.e., Excel sheet in my case), below are the steps to fix, if you are still getting the popup.
• From Word document, click on File -> Info -> Related Documents -> Edit Links to Files

• In the ‘Links’ window, either click on ‘Change Source’ to correct the ‘Link file’ path or click ‘Break Link’ button if you want to remove the files link.

• Once the file paths are corrected, click on ‘Update Now’ to reflect the changes in Word document
• Now, Word document should open with no “The Linked file isn’t available” pop-up.

🙂