We have a corporate Intranet that contains monthly updated Excel spreadsheets
for employee performance stats. The Excel spreadsheets are updated and
posted on our web site. Users click on the url to download and view the
monthly stats. The spreadsheet is linked to data in at least one other Excel
workbook.

If the file downloads quickly and opens, the user is prompted with "the
workbook you opened contains automatic links to info in another workbook. Do
you want to update this workbook with changes made to the other workbook".
If you answer NO, the downloaded spreadsheet opens right away.

The problem is that the spreadsheets are 6 MB in size and take a bit of time
to download over T1 network links. If they download slowly, the prompt
(above) ends up behind the download window. The user can't see the prompt
and they think the download is stopped. You can't minimize the download
window at that point, but you can use the alt | tab key combination to access
the Excel prompt, answer NO and then the spreadsheet opens right away.

My question - is there any way within Excel to force the prompt to open as
the primary (front) window so that users can see it? Or, is there another
way that we can eliminate this prompt, since users don't have access to make
changes to either workbook? The user group that has access to this
spreadsheet has read and execute permissions to the file. Is there a way to
eliminate the prompts in this case?

Thanks for any suggestions on fixing this.

JT