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Applies to: @RISK 6.1, Professional and Industrial Editions
I have an Excel workbook that was linked to a project in @RISK. When I try to open the project, I get this error message:
An error has occurred linking the selected project to the opened workbook in Excel. The newly opened workbook will be closed.
I click OK, and the workbook does close. How can I get access to my project and workbook?
This unfortunately was a program error that affected certain projects when opened in @RISK 6.1.
It was repaired in @RISK 6.2.0. If you have a current maintenance contract, please visit our upgrades page, or contact your Palisade sales office to request an upgrade to the latest version.
If you don't have a current maintenance contract, or your company policy will not let you install the upgrade, follow this procedure:
Re-import the project and save the resulting workbook under a new name.
Close @RISK.
Open Excel (not @RISK) and copy your input distributions and your outputs from the old workbook to the new one. The formulas that involve @RISK functions will display #NAME or other error codes, but you can still copy/paste them in Excel.
Last edited: 2015-10-15