Symptoms: funny error messages, such as 'Cannot locate the Internet server or proxy server'.
Cause: Excel (office) doesn't simply launch a browser, but does a test first. That test may fail (for example lack of login cookies) and return the wrong error message.
Steps
1. Create a registry key
- 32 bit Office on 64 bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Internet
- 32 bit Office on 32 bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Internet
- 64 bit Office on 64 bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Internet
2. Create a new DWORD value ForceShellExecute with value 1
3. This may affect opening other documents from within Excel as well. Use at your own risk.
4. I tested the above with Office 2019 32 bits on a Windows 10 64 bits install.
Source
The solution above I found here:
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