Excel 2003 opens slowly

[Guest]

I'm having a problem with Excel 2003. For one of my users, Excel 2003 takes
60-63 seconds to open. The rest of the suite, Word, Powerpont, etc... opens
almost instantly. What's the deal here? I appreciate any suggestions. I have
already deleted her local roaming profile and copied the roaming profile back
down to her pc with no change. If I us a different pc, the problem still
exists.

 

[Ken Wright]

Just a thought but the *.xlb (Toolbar customisation file) doesn't get
deleted if you uninstall and reinstall, though not sure if it would have
gone if you deleted the profile. It used to get bloated and cause problems,
but got fixed in the last release or so, but who knows, may be worth a try.
You would have to search in hidden files and folders. if you delete it
Excel will just create a new one anyway.

You could also try these:-

Opening/Saving Bottlenecks (Charles Williams)
http://www.decisionmodels.com/optspeedd.htm#OpSave

Troubleshoot Startup Problems(MS):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q280504

Some tips on overcoming slow response (David McRitchie)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm


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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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[Guest]

Thanks Ken but that didn't work for me. Here's what I found to resolve this
problem. I had to go into the users roaming profile on the server, open
Application Data\"username"\Microsoft\Excel and delete the whole Excel file.
There were a bunch of 10K files with alphabet names including the Excel.xlb
file you mentioned. Once I deleted the Excel folder and deleted the local
copy of the roaming profile on the pc. Excel started working like a champ.
Thanks for your input though!

 

[Ken Wright]

No problem, cheers for letting me know what worked.

Regards
Ken...............