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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
I recently received a new company laptop, with W2K Pro and Office 2003.
Word opens just fine, as do the other products; however, Excel is extremely slow in opening. I did not have this problem when our configuration was W2K Pro and Office XP (or 2002). What is causing this problem? Is there a setting I need to adjust...couldn't find anything...or do I need to change something in the registry to enable a quicker file open? I am also using Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition....and am seriously thinking about switching to Trend PC-cillen instead. Thanks for any assistance provided. Please post to newsgroup. ryder |
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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
Cleaning the windows temp folder sometimes works wonders.
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 ~redyrmann~ wrote: I recently received a new company laptop, with W2K Pro and Office 2003. Word opens just fine, as do the other products; however, Excel is extremely slow in opening. I did not have this problem when our configuration was W2K Pro and Office XP (or 2002). What is causing this problem? Is there a setting I need to adjust...couldn't find anything...or do I need to change something in the registry to enable a quicker file open? I am also using Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition....and am seriously thinking about switching to Trend PC-cillen instead. Thanks for any assistance provided. Please post to newsgroup. ryder -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
Hi there. Thanks for the links, tried some of the info suggested on those
sites to no avail. I did find a solution, however, and now my Excel files open and display without the extremely slow action as well as actions that timed out - not responding (via Task Manager). I started to answer your post by saying the problem didn't affect the other MS products in this suite, and it didn't with regard to opening and navigating around in the files (PP and Word), BUT, it hung as soon as I clicked on Page Setup and Print Preview. At that point, I remembered a problem my husband experienced with a development tool and lack of defined default printer using W2K and XP.... Well, I had a printer defined on our network, but somehow, it was not responding correctly...tested by trying to print a Word doc. Once I deleted it and added it again, tested the printing, as well as test printed the same Word doc, I then tested Excel and it works as expected, no hangs upon opening or saving...or accessing the Print Preview or other options within the program. I was about ready to dump this version and reinstall Office XP....since that worked just fine. Thanks for your help....I do appreciate your response. Maybe this printer troubleshooting solution should be noted in some of the Excel 2003 troubleshooting guide. Sure saves from renaming the normal.dot and creating a new one as was suggested in another troubleshooting problem with regard to printing. Regards -- ~redyrmann~ The problem with this version, not sure if with the previous version, is the association MS makes with "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Cleaning the windows temp folder sometimes works wonders. 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 ~redyrmann~ wrote: I recently received a new company laptop, with W2K Pro and Office 2003. Word opens just fine, as do the other products; however, Excel is extremely slow in opening. I did not have this problem when our configuration was W2K Pro and Office XP (or 2002). What is causing this problem? Is there a setting I need to adjust...couldn't find anything...or do I need to change something in the registry to enable a quicker file open? I am also using Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition....and am seriously thinking about switching to Trend PC-cillen instead. Thanks for any assistance provided. Please post to newsgroup. ryder -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
It will be noted on my slowresp.htm page,
as no default printer or incorrectly defined network printer. Did not see a MS KB article to match such a problem for Excel 2003. Tried for any Excel - got a couple of close matches XL2000: Printing File From Windows Explorer Causes Excel to Quit Unexpectedly http://support.microsoft.com/default...21&Product=xlw XL2000: Error Message: There Are No Printers Installed http://support.microsoft.com/default...28&Product=xlw --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "~redyrmann~" ~redyrmann~dotcom wrote in message I did find a solution, however, and now my Excel files open and display without the extremely slow action as well as actions that timed out - not responding (via Task Manager). |
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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
Thanks for the update (and thanks to David McRitchie for updating his site).
I've seen problems with print preview (and no printer)--but never a problem with slow opening. (And I'm kind'a chicken to test it bg.) ~redyrmann~ wrote: Hi there. Thanks for the links, tried some of the info suggested on those sites to no avail. I did find a solution, however, and now my Excel files open and display without the extremely slow action as well as actions that timed out - not responding (via Task Manager). I started to answer your post by saying the problem didn't affect the other MS products in this suite, and it didn't with regard to opening and navigating around in the files (PP and Word), BUT, it hung as soon as I clicked on Page Setup and Print Preview. At that point, I remembered a problem my husband experienced with a development tool and lack of defined default printer using W2K and XP.... Well, I had a printer defined on our network, but somehow, it was not responding correctly...tested by trying to print a Word doc. Once I deleted it and added it again, tested the printing, as well as test printed the same Word doc, I then tested Excel and it works as expected, no hangs upon opening or saving...or accessing the Print Preview or other options within the program. I was about ready to dump this version and reinstall Office XP....since that worked just fine. Thanks for your help....I do appreciate your response. Maybe this printer troubleshooting solution should be noted in some of the Excel 2003 troubleshooting guide. Sure saves from renaming the normal.dot and creating a new one as was suggested in another troubleshooting problem with regard to printing. Regards -- ~redyrmann~ The problem with this version, not sure if with the previous version, is the association MS makes with "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Cleaning the windows temp folder sometimes works wonders. 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 ~redyrmann~ wrote: I recently received a new company laptop, with W2K Pro and Office 2003. Word opens just fine, as do the other products; however, Excel is extremely slow in opening. I did not have this problem when our configuration was W2K Pro and Office XP (or 2002). What is causing this problem? Is there a setting I need to adjust...couldn't find anything...or do I need to change something in the registry to enable a quicker file open? I am also using Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition....and am seriously thinking about switching to Trend PC-cillen instead. Thanks for any assistance provided. Please post to newsgroup. ryder -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
This is somewhat late, but I know that running macros sometimes slows Excel down, due to a library that ends up building itself in the documents folder for a specific user. Everytime I ran the macro it kept getting larger and Excel checked the library before it ran the macro, or smth. to that effect.
Anyway, cleaning the that directory in the documents folder cleared it right up. pepe "David McRitchie" wrote: It will be noted on my slowresp.htm page, as no default printer or incorrectly defined network printer. Did not see a MS KB article to match such a problem for Excel 2003. Tried for any Excel - got a couple of close matches XL2000: Printing File From Windows Explorer Causes Excel to Quit Unexpectedly http://support.microsoft.com/default...21&Product=xlw XL2000: Error Message: There Are No Printers Installed http://support.microsoft.com/default...28&Product=xlw --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "~redyrmann~" ~redyrmann~dotcom wrote in message I did find a solution, however, and now my Excel files open and display without the extremely slow action as well as actions that timed out - not responding (via Task Manager). |
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Excel 2003 opens EXTREMELY SLOW
Hi Pepe,
Can you be more specific, like what was the name of the directory that you cleared out. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "pepenacho" wrote in message ... This is somewhat late, but I know that running macros sometimes slows Excel down, due to a library that ends up building itself in the documents folder for a specific user. Everytime I ran the macro it kept getting larger and Excel checked the library before it ran the macro, or smth. to that effect. Anyway, cleaning the that directory in the documents folder cleared it right up. pepe "~redyrmann~" ~redyrmann~dotcom wrote in message I did find a solution, however, and now my Excel files open and display without the extremely slow action as well as actions that timed out - not responding (via Task Manager). |
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