That's a fairly unusual application.

You can turn it off by going to ToolsOptionsGeneral and uncheck the box to
"Automatically update links on open". Though maybe, you have that box
unchecked and if you check it, the update will take place without you being
prompted for it.

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"Meenu" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have some documents in word 2003 which have embedded objects (these
embedded objects are some word mailmerge documents). Whenever I open any
of
these documents, I get a dialogue box which says "this document contains
links to other files. do you want to update this document with data from
other files?".
Is there any way to prevent this dialogue box from appearing?
I mean obviously I want the data to be updated automatically, otherwise
why
would I use embedded objects.
Thanks and regards,
Meenu.