Link path update in Word fails for multiple fails in Office 2024

On my old PC i have created an excel file with data. I also have several doc and docx files on Word, that contain many links to the excel file. For each new project i have, I use this files as template and transfer them in a specific way to the new project's folder.
Normally on my old PC with win 10 and office 2021 professional, for each of my projects i fill the project data in the excel file. After that I open the excel file, open the first word file and when it asks I click to update links at open. As soon as the update link bar at the bottom taskbar finishes I open the second word file, again update links in it and then the third file and so on. I do not close any files at that moment. After that I go into the opened excel file and click save as - to another location (my new project folder). This triggers in all open word files the system to begin update of all links paths. I wait some time (about 5-10 minutes) the update to finish an the word files to become responsive, and then I  click -save as- for every word file and save it as a new file in the new project folder. This way worked for me - I had all the word files with updated links paths, linking to the new excel file for the new project.
I moved to a new PC and recently installed windows 11 pro with Office 2024 LTSC. I transferred my word and excel files to a folder with the same name and path. And when i tried to do the same thing to create excel and word files for my new projects, it starts the procedure of updating link paths, but about half of the link paths finally are not updated in my word files! When i try with opening and updating and saving only 1 single word file, it works and updates all the link paths. But with multiple simultaneous word files it fails!

I tried everything - trusted locations, different settings, even changing some registry. It was interesting that I managed to get it working 2 times. But immediately after that, without changing anything - it again was not working.
I know i can do it manually - for every single link i have to choose the excel file - but imagine this for hundreds of links is too long. I can do it for a single word file, but i have to repeat it and wait for the word to become responsive - again very time consuming. This is not acceptable.

I read this has something to do with the Office 2024 has changed the way to deal with links - it was synchronous in 2021 and olde, and now is asynchronous. The system gets something like timeout and does not finish the process or something.

My question is how i can fix it? Or is there an option to choose between the two ways Office deals with links? Or is such an option coming out or should be planned for the next releases? This is the main part of my job and really troubles me. Now I am installing 2021 so i can do my job, but I really want to be using latest software and features.
I appreciate your help and answers!