Slow responce to functions

[Al]

I'm using Office pro 2003. I just noticed that when I try to perform any
simple functions in excel like cut and paste, copy and paste, even when I
close a spreadsheet that I changed and when the option pops up to save, if I
say no it takes way too long to perform these simple functions. Just a copy
and paste of one cell I'll sit here and watch the hourglass for the better
part 10 to 20 seconds. I went into word and it appears that it is doing the
same thing. I have enough ram, 512 meg. I even tried closing everything,
antivirus, spamware,etc to free up as much ram as possible but still the
same result. I haven't added any new software in a long time. This just
started out of nowhere. Very frustrating. Any suggestions?
thanks
al

 

[Guest]

I'm noticing exactly the same thing - it can take approx 20-30 seconds to
copy a range of cells - this has only happened since my machine got upgraded
to a Xeon Dual-Core - meant to be the envy of the office, but my colleagues
old Vaio laptop can copy cells quicker!

I'm frustrated that no end of Googling has not given me any successful
results!