I have read several link and tried DATALINK, XREF, and DICT, to no avail.... Helphistory: I recieved a set of drawing for a huge site. I open up several drawing and have "not found" data links, excels were not send with set. I don't need the excel or data links and would like to delete the data links as part of my drawing cleanup.

But you didn't try AutoCAD Help, right?Look up the topic: "To remove a link to an external spreadsheet".

i don't have the excels to do that..

I figured it out .... I had to go to the parent xrefs and THEN use DATALINK to delete the data links

So you really didn't need the actual Excel file which is what I surmised from the beginning.  The "link" is only a path to the file it isn't the spreadsheet file itself.