Excel worksheets open SLOWLY

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Mark Ledford

When opening any Excel 97 worksheets on my local computer
by double clicking on the worksheet icon, it takes almost
two minutes to open the file. If I open Excel first and
then open the worksheet through File, Open, it opens
instantaneously. There are no add-ins in the spreadsheet
and nothing in the XLSTART directory. Any thoughts?
Thanks a million!
 
How about with excel open and then double clicking in windows explorer?

(Just curious)

Try cleaning up your windows temp folder.

If that didn't help, try renaming all your *.xlb files to *.xlbOLD (with excel
closed).

*.xlb is where excel stores customized toolbars. Sometimes that can slow down
excel when it's opening.

If that works, then delete those *.xlbOLD files and recreate any customizations
to your toolbars.

(At one time, my *.xlb (in xl97) was 450K. I killed it and recreated it. It
was about 12K.)

If none of this helped:

You may want to take a look at these two sites
(Charles Williams and David McRitchie):

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm
 

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