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Upon opening file i get an excel alert message. How to prevent this?

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    Upon opening file i get an excel alert message. How to prevent this?

    Hi,

    I thought i knew how to stop this from happening but apparently i dont.

    I have a file which has data-links in it and when i open the file i get a display alert message asking do i want to update links........i do not want to update links and i dont even want this display message shown.......how to prevent this from happening.

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    Re: Upon opening file i get an excel alert message. How to prevent this?

    Hi

    Perhaps in this workbook module.

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    Re: Upon opening file i get an excel alert message. How to prevent this?

    thanks. I was hoping it would be something like displayalerts = false or something like that but it did not work.

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    Re: Upon opening file i get an excel alert message. How to prevent this?

    If you are openning the file with code, Workbooks.Open, then set the UpdateLinks to false.
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