Discoverer Web Queries

Hi
Can anyone help me.
I have created a number of disco web queries (excel).
The location of the disco report is about to be changed onto a new server with a new address.
Is there anyway to access the address of the report in excel and change it rather that running each report in disco and reacreating the web query.

Hi
Thanks for the reply, however is there a way to amend the link in the excel file that has been created from the iqy file. Otherwise we would need to amend quite a lot of iqy files then recreate them in excel with the correct usernames and paramaters on another excel sheet.
Andy

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is there any documentation we can read on using discoverer's web services?
Patch 5648158 by the way.
I'm trying to use them but some variables don't make since. For example:
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