"Nicolas" <Nicolas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm like Boris and several oher people around me (like my brother in law).
>
> Under windows xp, from file explorer for each excel or a word document
> (.xls
> or xlsx or .doc or .docx) you open by double clicking on, it take a
> ridiculous long time to open the document.
>
> Same things happens from outlook when opening an excel or a word document
> attachement from a mail.
>
> The document opening is so long that word or excel have time to open
> (without any opened document), and the you even have time to open the the
> document by the open comand + browse to the document, etc...
>
> What is this coming from? I cannot imagine Microsoft is not aware of such
> an
> issue, and is not proposing anything against it.
> Seems this happens from both office 2003 or 2007 (I'm running off2007)
>
>
> For you information, I'm a computer scientist engineer, with 12 years
> professional experience, so what is discribed here is not just a mis-use
> of
> MS-Office or windows, but a real issue which started to happen few weeks
> ago.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any serious help you could think of.
> I would be so gratefull get rid of this problem....

I've seen a couple of reasons for this - one is that the printer that is
"attached" to that document is not available, on a network, the other is
that there is a link to something it can't find. Is it either of those? Does
Excel open quickly on its own, without directly opening a file?