I have a Word file with several links to an Excel file. All of the links within the Word file are set to "Manual Update" rather than "Automatic Update" update. Whenever I open the Word file BEFORE opening the Excel file or WITHOUT opening the Excel file, Word opens/closes the linked Excel file repeatedly as it cycles through all of the links within the Word document. This makes opening the Word file very slow and painful. How can I suppress this function or turn it off?

Thanks