Basically i have a very large Word document with a ton of referenced links to a variety of different excel workbooks.


When i want to open my word document i would like it to just open it and not worry about all the attached links every time i open the word document. The reason being that it produces a number of different errors because there are some of the linked excel sheets that have broken links and a few other errors as shown below.
Right now it takes me between 5 and 10 minutes to open my word document and its a bit frustrating to have to manually click on all these error messages.

The error of "This workbook contains one or more links that cannot be updated", is there because i have links to excel workbooks with broken links in them. These broken links are links that are basically impossible to find as they are huge excel workbooks used in my company that would take forever to search and find.
The error of "... Is already open": Not sure why this pops up. The excel sheet is not open when i first try and open my word document.
The "... caused a serious error" is unclear aswell. When i manually open the excel workbook i don't get any erriors.

So basically i want word to just ignore every error it can think of, and just open the document i want, as fast as possible.

Currently tried and attempted:

Pressing options, edit links to file, set update method to Manual. (Problem being that you have to do this manually for every link, which is both very time consuming and not 100% optimal as there might be new links)

Options -> Advanced -> Uncheck "Update automatic links at open"

Any suggestions as to what i can do to prevent/supress the error messages is greatly appreciated.

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