Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026.

There might be times when we need to open multiple links saved in an Excel file. Many users do not know that Excel has a feature to open multiple links at once.

External workbook links which point to file types blocked by Excel's Trust Center will be disabled by default starting in October 2025, as Microsoft tightens down on reducing the potential ...

How to Link 2 Excel Spreadsheets. You can establish links across multiple spreadsheets and workbooks in Microsoft Excel to streamline data management.

If the Sorry, Excel cannot open two workbooks with the same name at the same time error is preventing you from using Excel, see this post.

If you have two similar Excel spreadsheets, or different versions of the same original spreadsheet, it can be useful to compare the Excel files and see how they differ.

Q: When I open two Excel files in two instances of Excel and display them on two monitors, I find that I cannot then copy formulas back and forth between the files—only the formula’s calculated value ...