Excel 2013, Windows 7 64bit
we have this excel file that contains external links. this file was created by another company. whenever we open the file, excel says "contacting\\<computer name>\shares\..." and it takes a few minutes to open that 3MB file.
I found a workaround to open it fast by disabling the network first before opening. without going back to the creator of the excel file and asking them to remove the links, is there any way we can avoid having excel wait for a timeout trying to contact external links?