Boris

What version of Microsoft Office do have?

I am still unsure how you open an attachment from Windows Explorer. You
can double click an Excel or Word file and the file opens. In practice
that is how I work on my Excel and Word files. I rarely open Excel or
Word first as it takes longer to get the job started.

How large are your typical files? You are saying that both Excel and
Word are affected. To the same extent or to varying degrees.

Do you use macros? Do your Excel files have lots of links to other Excel
files beyond the worksheets in the same file?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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BorisS wrote:
> All, thanks for educating the uneducated. I am sometimes curt with my
> terminology, not remembering that what I see is something I should
> describe better.
>
> Problem is with Outlook (not express) and windows explorer, not
> internet explorer. Here are the two scenarios:
>
> A
> Open Xl, or open Word. Then go to Open dialogue, find file, open.
> File opens instantly.
>
> B
> Double click attachment in Outlook, or Windows Explorer, and whether
> or not Excel or Word are running (meaning it has nothing to do with
> startup time of either), a file will take about 3-5 minutes to load
> into the program.
>
> In other words, an 'external' opening of an xls or doc file will take
> horribly long, whereas opening from within either program takes no
> time, as it should.
>
> No virus software installed, so that cannot be it. And I have not
> recently changed anything in Windows firewall settings (it is on), so
> that would not be the trigger event.
>
> Any ideas to try are welcome and appreciated.
>
>> BorisS <BorisS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have recently started having issues where opening a file from a
>>> program (Outlook, explorer) takes literally about 5 minutes to
>>> complete. If I go from within the operating program (XL, Word), it
>>> is instantaneous. But from outside, it takes forever.
>>
>> I think you are confused in your use of terminology... all of those
>> programs are "inside the operating system", such operating system
>> being Windows XP (presumably).
>>
>> What are you having problems opening?