Question : Problem with MS Excel 03 list sycnchronisation with Sharepoint List

I have a list in an Excel 2003 spreadsheet. I published this list to a Share Point List and was synchronizing the two. This was working perfectly fine until our Share Point administrators secured the Share Point domain and therefore the address to our Share Point site changed from http:// to https://.

My Excel list now obviously does not synchronize with Share Point because it cannot find the original address. And its seems that Excel does not allow you to re-link an Excel list to an already existing Share Point list. You can only Publish your Excel list to a brand new Share Point List. This I cannot do as my share point list is linked to a document library as meta data.

I have spent a considerable amount of time trying update the link in from Excel to share point but to no avail. I am not sure where Excel stores the connection information for a share point list so that I can just update the http:// to https://. I have tried the Data>Import External Data options but they are all deactivated.

Is it at all possible to do this??? Please help. I wouldn't mind a VBA solution either.

Answer : Problem with MS Excel 03 list sycnchronisation with Sharepoint List

fm what i can tell, there is no 'relinking'  option see below

from here
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC010916061033

To publish the list you created with the new List command in Excel 2003, begin by clicking the list (it must be active on the worksheet), point to List on the Data menu, and then click Publish List.

The Publish List to SharePoint Site dialog box appears, and you would:

1. Type the URL of the server (your SharePoint site) in the Address box.
2. Select the Link to the new SharePoint list check box so that you can update the list with changes. If you don't choose to link the lists now, you won't be able to do it later on, and you won't be able to update.
3. Type a name for your list in the Name box.
4. Type a description in the Description box, which is optional, but useful, and then click the Next button.