Office Button Excel Options Advanced scroll down under then General
select Web Options Files uncheck Update links on save OK


"RhysPieces" wrote:

Running Excel 07 on XP SP2. My workbooks are automatically updating from
external links despite being set to prompt before updating in
Options-Advanced. Is this a problem with XL or is there a fix? I got burned
when someone else opened one of the workbooks and old data was overwritten
despite my assumed precautions. Thanks for all help.