I'd start looking at the registry entries for Office with a search on"\\".
Templates sounds like the favourite place to start.

If you right-click on a document anywhere (whether or not it is an Office
one) does that context menu come up slowly too?

I'm racking my brains for where I found the problem last time :-)


"Nicolas" <Nicolas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi "Uncle Marvo",
>
> Thanks for your answer:
>> 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?
>
> I would tend to agree with you one point: The long opening time looks like
> the duration of a network timeout. That said this applies to any document
> from word / excel. So I would tend to exclude behavior linked to the
> document
> content, but more something related to office or environment
> configuration...
>
> I just did the following test:
>
> Right clicked on Windows file explorer -> New -> Excel document
>
> Then just click on this new empty document: Opening time like around a
> minute, but excel is opened after 2 seconds without any document window
> inside.
>
> And from this intermediate state, if I do file => open => select manually
> the document, the document openes in a second. And later, the initial
> document open command tries to complete and warns that a document with the
> same name is already opened...
>
> So what I'm looking for if where I could chase for wrong links or netword
> references in office / Word / Excel setup, or within default template
> documents, etc...
>
> I already tried to perform office diagnostic and repair without any
> success...
>
> Thanks for any help there.
> Unless this is a side effect from other applications setup, or a virus,
> but
> then I don't know how to proceed.
> (I have a Norton Antivirus corporate edition running on my PC)