unwanted hyperlinks

[chris]

at work a shared excel file frequently opens with unwanted
hyperlinks to shared folders. no hyperlinks were ever
created in this file, and no hyperlinks ever pointed to
this file. hyperlinks in excel have been used in the past
on a computer that accesses the file, but was unrelated.
the hyperlinks are not active, and we have to remove each
one manually which is quite exhausting. any help would be
appreciated.

thanks, chris