Slow Opening Files

[Mark In The Dark]

Everything was working great. Now without warning Excel and Word files take forever to open. Can anyone help me out?

 

[Bob]

-----Original Message-----
Everything was working great. Now without warning Excel

and Word files take forever to open. Can anyone help me
out?.>
I have the same problem on 4 computers with all Office
2003 programs.
See previous email from Bob.
Please let me know if you find out anything.
Thanks, Bob

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Everything was working great. Now without warning Excel

and Word files take forever to open. Can anyone help me
out?>
If it is only slow at the file opening, then it may be
the virus scan (watch just above Start button)it does
this before opening every file?
If it's slow starting when starting the program, then
join our club?

 

[Chris]

I have the same issue. For me everything was working fine
until I updated with the latest Office 2003 update.. If
you are experiencing the same after the update, then
something is up with the new update.

-----Original Message-----
Everything was working great. Now without warning Excel

and Word files take forever to open. Can anyone help me
out?

 

[Guest]

Me too! Working fine, then updated office. Now Word and
Excel take between 1 and 2 minutes to come up. Same on
two computers. I can't believe it!

-----Original Message-----
Everything was working great. Now without warning Excel

and Word files take forever to open. Can anyone help me
out?

 

[denise]

i'm having the same problem. word, excel and probably other office programs take over a minute to load. If you find out, please let me know! thanks. (e-mail address removed)

----- (e-mail address removed) wrote: -----

Me too! Working fine, then updated office. Now Word and
Excel take between 1 and 2 minutes to come up. Same on
two computers. I can't believe it!

-----Original Message-----
Everything was working great. Now without warning Excel

and Word files take forever to open. Can anyone help me
out?

 

[Echo S]

I'm guessing these are all related to the latest Norton update.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2003081411062739
from Symantec suggests turning off certificates in IE.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q320365
describes how to disable the Office plug-in (which you should do anyway,
as far as I'm concerned). It's a PPT kb article, but the instructions
for disabling the plug-in are good.