Workbook Open Vba Update Links. Opens the workbook named Plan.xls stored in the D:\Planning folder, providing the password for opening the workbook. "This workbook contains one or more links that cannot be updated". Indeed if you do open any workbook you open yourself to the risk that the workbook will change.
I can suppress the update box with the below, but will this still update the links ? The active workbook may or may not contain the code that's Use the Workbooks collection to reference open workbooks. Indeed if you do open any workbook you open yourself to the risk that the workbook will change.
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If the source workbook is open when you open the dependent workbook, the formulas are automatically updated without any prompt.
If this argument is omitted, the user is prompted to specify how links will be updated. This all works well, but I would like to be able to decide if the workbook I am opening should update external links or not. I'm trying to run some VBA on these as they come in and I'm having a few problems.