Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / May 2007

I am baffled.

I had created an Excel spreadsheet with inventory items with cells
containing links to actual pictures of the item, like this:

Paintngs_Antq/Invntry070226_31.jpg <Paintngs_Antq/Invntry070226_31.jpg>

After doing other things in that same spreadsheet (coloring certain cells,
for example) saving the spreadsheet and reopen it a few days later, that
link was broken!

When I cleared the cell in question and rebuilding the link in Excel with
command-K to the particular picture at the same location, in other words
exactly the same link syntax, the link works again.

I seem to miss something very fundamental in linking objects from within an
office document to an external file.  I am wondering where is the breakdown
of my Œmental link¹?

Can anybody help?  (I am working with an MacMini Intel core duo, MacOSX
10.4.9 and lots of memory/memories).  Most important:  How can I prevent
this to happen in the future?

Rudolf