Following my previous answer, click on office button, excel options, specify,
uncheck update links with other documents (section below formulas section,
it's called "when calculate in this worksheet" or so, do not know exactly as
I do not have english excel)

"Dan" wrote:

Help! I don't want excel to automatically update links to another workbook
when I open it. What should I do? I want it to ask me if it should update the
links (like what occurs in excel 2003)