I know that for my workbooks I can turn off Autorecover, and for my Excel as a whole I can reset the Autorecover timing (I've got mine set at 45 minutes instead of the default 10). However, I constantly have open various workbooks created by another team. These workbooks are huge, and autorecover is a 10 minute process when I have 2 or three of them open.

These workbooks are updated by another team each morning, and then that team saves them for our use. We can't save changes to the file, and there's no need to have Autorecover running on them. But that team refuses to change their autorecover settings.

So, is there a way that I can open these workbooks and turn off autorecover for them while they're opened by me?