How to suppress Update Links warning?

📝 Blog Post: How to suppress Update Links warning

Are you tired of seeing that pesky "This workbook contains links to other data sources" message every time you open an Excel file? 📚 It can be quite frustrating, especially when you're trying to automate processes with scripts. But fret not! We've got you covered with easy solutions to suppress this annoying warning and streamline your workflow. Let's dive in! 🏊‍♀️

First things first, let's take a look at the code snippet provided in the context:

function getWorkbook(bkPath as string) as workbook
    Application.EnableEvents=False
    Application.DisplayAlerts=False
    getWorkbook=Workbooks.Open(bkPath, updatelinks:=0, readonly:=false)
end function

While this code seems to disable events and alerts, the update links warning still persists. 😕 But don't worry, we have a couple of tricks up our sleeves to help you out!

💡 Solution 1: Disable alerts for all workbooks

To suppress the update links warning for all workbooks, you can modify the code as follows:

Application.DisplayAlerts = False
function getWorkbook(bkPath as string) as workbook
    Application.EnableEvents=False
    getWorkbook=Workbooks.Open(bkPath, updatelinks:=0, readonly:=false)
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
end function

By setting Application.DisplayAlerts to False after opening the workbook, you can ensure that the update links warning doesn't pop up on your screen.

💡 Solution 2: Handle broken links gracefully

It seems that the update links warning is triggered when a workbook has broken links. 😮 To suppress the warning specifically for broken links, you can modify the code as follows:

function getWorkbook(bkPath as string) as workbook
    Application.EnableEvents=False
    getWorkbook=Workbooks.Open(bkPath, updatelinks:=False, readonly:=False)
    On Error Resume Next
    getWorkbook.UpdateLinks = xlUpdateLinksNever
    On Error GoTo 0
end function

In this code, we use the .UpdateLinks property to set the update behavior. By assigning xlUpdateLinksNever to getWorkbook.UpdateLinks, we effectively suppress the update links warning for workbooks with broken links. 🙌

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