"Ghost links" in excel

Wyn Hopkins the Add-in worked fine for my Excel 2010 spreadsheet. I couldn't open it to use once only. Had to install as an Add-in. Thank yall for the help specially to the author @Detlef Lewin.

Wyn Hopkins thank you very much for referring back to the specific link by the other user that worked for you.  It worked perfectly for me and reduced my file size and time to open, drastically. 

It worked fine on my files that were listed under Data/Edit Links.  I had other links or references that were hidden and the only way the add-in would delete them is if when opening the workbook, I had to ask Excel to try to open each file since it would prompt me as to whether I wanted to continue with these links or not.  I could hit cancel on each one but that allowed me to record the file names from the pop-up so that I could then tell the add-in to delete them.  They didn't show up for me any other way.  It took a little time to do this but it's worth it since now when I open, no more links and they open much much much faster and the file size is greatly reduced.

The only problem I have is that sometimes after using the add-in's capability successfully on multiple files, even after I close and reopen Excel, I have to add the add-in back in by retrieving it from my folder.  I could see the add-in in the add-in list in Excel and it is check-marked, but in order to get it to reappear on the top menu in Excel, I had to manually retrieve it again.  It's not a problem, just strange.

Thanks again!