Trouble opening spreadsheets

[Brian]

Okay, this has me baffled. If I open up excel and do a File | Open and then
select the spreadsheet I want to open, it opens in a split second. However,
if Excel is not open, and I double click a spreadsheet on my desktop, it
takes an EXTREMELY long time for the spreadsheet to open. If it took 5 or 10
second to open, I could deal with it, but it literally takes 3-4 minutes to
open a spreadsheet. Originally, I thought it was a network issue since I was
trying to open documents out on a network drive, but I tried the same thing
with files on my local machine with the same problem. I am running Windows
XP and Office XP.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

 

[Nick Hodge]

Brian

A couple of possibilities

1) Tools>Options...>General - Uncheck 'Ignore other applications'
2) Try temporarily disabling you AV software
3) Try looking for a file called Excel.xlb (it may be hidden) and move it
from it's location. If you are now ok you will have lost your toolbar
customisations, but XL will have created a new file for that feature
4) Try unchecking all add-ins (Tools>Add-ins...) and add them back one at a
time to see if that helps

Just a few things

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
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