Preserve existing data whilw using external links
 

I have a workbook that contains links to external data sources and, upon
opening the file I am given a startup prompt with an option that says "if I
don't update the links, Excel will use the previous informtion" and, when I
choose this option it then tries to update and producing errors because the
external data is not available. I want to work with the existing data. How
do I preserve the existing data? This feature works fine in 2000 but not in
2003. Any thoughts?
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