I am creating charts in Excel and then via the Paste Special finction I paste 
them into Powerpoint as a linked object.

This is so I may update the Excel sheets and refresh them in the powerpoint 
slides as and when required.

This is working fine for me but when a colleague opens both the Excel and 
the Powerpoint presentation they are not able to refresh the links.  Instead 
they receive the error message " The linked file was unavailable and can't be 
updated" 

we did not have this problem with earlier version of Office so I would 
appreciate it if anybody has a solöution. 

Both the files are in the same folder.

Where are the files?

Are the EXCEL and PowerPoint files both on your c:\ (local) drive or are 
they on a network drive that you share with your colleague (and that you can 
both see and both have read / write access to). 



"J11davidson" wrote:

> I am creating charts in Excel and then via the Paste Special finction I paste 
> them into Powerpoint as a linked object.
> 
> This is so I may update the Excel sheets and refresh them in the powerpoint 
> slides as and when required.
> 
> This is working fine for me but when a colleague opens both the Excel and 
> the Powerpoint presentation they are not able to refresh the links.  Instead 
> they receive the error message " The linked file was unavailable and can't be 
> updated" 
> 
> we did not have this problem with earlier version of Office so I would 
> appreciate it if anybody has a solöution. 
> 
> Both the files are in the same folder.