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SharePoint references won't update

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It sounds like you're encountering a frustrating issue with SharePoint references in your workbooks. Despite having straightforward single-cell links, these references have stopped updating reliably, even when the source workbooks are open. Additionally, your experience with AutoSave turning off during pasting suggests a deeper problem. This situation can disrupt productivity, so let's explore potential solutions together. Understanding the root cause will help you regain control over your data management and ensure your workflows run smoothly.

Hi there. My apologies if this has been asked before - I couldn't find a similar post, but I might have missed something.

I have many workbooks that use SharePoint URLs to pull values from separate workbooks. These are just straight up single-cell references, no SUMIFs or anything fancy. Here's an example of one

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But for the past week or so, these have suddenly stopped updating reliably when the value in question changes. Notably, I do not get a #REF? error or anything like that. This happens even if the workbook it's referencing is open, and it happens in multiple workbooks where I have these kinds of links. A lot of these are columns where each cell references a cell in a column in another workbook. To fix (or make) these links, I copy the column from the referenced workbook and paste as links in the workbook where the links belong, but several times, when I do this, it turns AutoSave off and won't allow me to turn it back on unless I undo the paste, and instead of all paste options showing in the context menu, it only shows paste normal and paste links (no paste formatting, paste formulas, etc.) What the heck is going on?! Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you!

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