Why did Microsoft change the "Edit Links" to "Workbook Links" in the Queries and Connections tab?

I followed these instructions as "edit links" is one of the more useful and well-used features in my workbooks.

Edit Links reappeared in New Group at the far right - not very helpful.

It was greyed out and did not function.

The unwelcome Workbook Links was also greyed out and did not function.

So that meant nothing was working - a total shambles!

Fortunately I came across Customization Reset which deleted the New Group and Workbook Links seems to be working again.

Dear James,

Are there any plans to add the ability to sort the external links alphabetically in Excel for Mac? It so happens, in my line of work I have to deal with workbooks that sometimes have links to hundreds of files; finding and updating/replacing links is an insurmountable problem, and this essentially makes Excel for Mac unusable for me.

The links should be sorted alphabetically by file name in the task pane.

You're right that the new task pane isn't as good for managing workbooks with 10s or 100s of linked files.

This is one of the reasons we left the legacy Edit Links dialog in the product - it is better for some user scenarios, just not the most commonly used ones.

How about giving users the ability to change your built-in groups instead of making custom groups? I want to REMOVE 'Workbook Links' from the ribbon and put back 'Edit Links'. The only reasonable option is to make a new Group, put the 'Refresh All', 'Q&C', etc. in this new Group and HIDE your 'new and not improved' version.

With the old dialog, I used to be able to go to Edit Links, select multiple files, and click Open File to open all the linked files at once. With this new Workbook Links function, I have to open each file individually.

Same with Breaking Links - I could select multiple files and Break Links - I may not necessarily want to break All links, but with the Workbook Link function it's either All or one at a time..