Global Modification of Excel Hyperlinks

Hi All
Following a previous thread regarding mapped drives and hyperlinks, I have discovered that the content of the hyperlinks in a spreadsheet appear to have changed. When clicking these, the user is simply presented with "Cannot open the specified
file".
The hyperlinks open external documents such as PDF files.
Looking at the hyperlink paths they are typically ../../SPARES/PT/PT2000-PT2099/PT2009/PO%2012496.PDF. However, the correct path has spaces either side of the hyphen symbol. If I edit one of the hyperlinks manually and add back the spaces, the
link works fine. So it appears that, for some reason, Excel has dropped the spaces in all the hyperlinks.
Is there any code way I can globally replace "-P" with " - P" to add back the spaces?
The other option is to rename all the folders that are the targets for the hyperlinks, but there are a lot and this will have backup implications.
Thanks
Phil

Hi Phil,
I don't know whether Excel decides to wreck the links itself or that some user
has done so. I have heard about links being altered more than once though.
If you want them to stay put, I suggest to use the HYPERLINK function pointing
to a separate cell that holds the hyperlink address as text. That way, Excel
cannot change them as the link is created on-the-fly by the hYPERLINK function.
Pieterse isn't really a very common name in NL, they seem to originate from the
province of "Zuid Holland" of The Netherlands mostly:
http://nl.geneanet.org/familienamen/PIETERSE
Regards, Jan Karel Pieterse|Excel MVP|http://www.jkp-ads.com

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