Unable to open Excel file

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Michele

As of yesterday, I have been unable to open a particular
Excel file, although I am still able to open others. It
says it is opening but task manager says it's not
responding.

A message popped up from my firewall saying
"Microsoft Excel for Windows (EXCEL.EXE)is trying to
broadcast to (224.0.0.22). Do you want to allow this
program to access the network?"
so I clicked 'Yes' and the file opened.

Once again today, I am unable to open the file - I have
received the same message and replied 'Yes' but this time
the magic hasn't worked.

I would be grateful for any ideas..would you believe it
it's just opened about 20 minutes after saying yes to this
message. Still would like your advice as to what's going
on.

Thanks.
 
Michele

Do you have a link to a resource on the web? Hyperlink, inbound data, etc?
If not, I don't know why it's try to connect to this IP address.

With regard to your actual problem, could it be that you firewall is now
blocking it by default?

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)
 
Well as far as I am aware I do not have such a link -
unless I have done this accidentally, how could I check
for this? I have turned my Firewall off to see if that was
blocking the broadcast but that hasn't worked either.

Do you have any further ideas?

PS. Thanks for trying.
 
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