This blog post presents a few common causes of this problem along with the methods to fix themĬause 1 – Changes in the hyperlinked worksheet file name Causes of ‘hyperlinks not working in Excel’ problem, and solutions thereof Many a time, this issue may crop up due to Workbook corruption, either due to storing a vast amount of data or abrupt Workbook shutdown. The problem arises when you implement hyperlinks to the classified sheets to assess employee performance and the hyperlinks don’t open. For instance, data related to regional monthly sales, monthly performance of individual team members and their incentives. Suppose you’re managing the Sales records in an Excel workbook that has a variety of data associated with the final raw data.