I have written the following excel macro to open a list of word documents and save them as PDF. Unfortunately, when excel opens the word document the external links (automatic) are updated. I want to NOT update the links. Any help is appreciated.

Sub PDFWord()

Dim wrdApp As Object
Dim wrdDoc As Object
Dim myDocName As String
Dim myDocSave As String
Dim rowcount As Integer

Set wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
rowcount = 2

Do While Sheets("Documents").Range("A" & rowcount) <> ""

myDocName = Sheets("Documents").Range("A" & rowcount).Value
myDocSave = Sheets("Documents").Range("B" & rowcount).Value

Set wrdDoc = wrdApp.documents.Open(myDocName)
'This is my problem. This is the only command from excel to open word I could get to work
'but it doesn't allow me to specify not to update links.
wrdDoc.ExportAsFixedFormat (myDocSave), 17
wrdDoc.Close savechanges:=False
Set wrdDoc = Nothing
rowcount = rowcount + 1

Loop

wrdApp.Quit
Set wrdApp = Nothing

End Sub