Some of our users here are copying URL's of relevant files [from one of our sites] and pasting them into Excel.

As the need arises, they refer back to the Excel document and click the link to retrieve the document.

When clicked the already-encoded URL's:

https://sub.domain/some/path/to/files/My%20Super%20Long%20File%20Name-Thats%20Already%20Encoded.pdf

Are getting encoded a second time, which result in a URL like:

https://sub.domain/some/path/to/files/My%2520Super%2520Long%2520File%2520Name-Thats%2520Already%2520Encoded.pdf

This naturally won't work because its now literally looking for a file called "My%20Super%20Long%20File%20Name-Thats%20Already%20Encoded.pdf" which of course doesn't exist.

The URL's in Excel appear normal in the cells themselves.
The editing the actual hyperlink confirms its also correct there as well.
The URL's also look normal in the formula bar.

I've reproduced this behavior on multiple company machines: Windows 7 x64 Enterprise SP1 with Office ProPlus 2010 32-bit.

I was also able to reproduce this on vanilla Windows 7 VM's in Hyper-V using Office ProPlus 2010 and 2013.  Although domain joined, they're in an OU with blocked inheritance enabled and no linked GPO's.

I can't figure out where the problem is: Excel, Windows, IIS or something else?

• Edited by JuliusPIV Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:50 AM

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

This is a quick note to let you know that we are performing research on this issue.

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