We have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running Server 2003 that was installed two
years ago. Our workstations were/are Latitude D630's that were maxed out on
drive speed, memory and near the highest processing speed. The are running
Vista and XP. Our Office 2003/2007 documents seem to open slow compared to
documents I have seen opened at other firms. We have some heavy duty Excel
models that should obviously open a bit slower, but even word documents tend
to take a few seconds to open. My wife's firm had old Dell workstations,
but their documents, even large spreadsheets seemed to open instantaneously?
Is there something I am missing on the back end? Someone please enlighten
me. What is the perfect IT senario for opening and running large excel
spreadsheets? Thank you.

In article <CE3FCBEC-C731-44A4-A6EB-9AD0BABC659B@microsoft.com>, Chicago484
wrote:
> We have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running Server 2003 that was installed two
> years ago. Our workstations were/are Latitude D630's that were maxed out on
> drive speed, memory and near the highest processing speed.

Actual numbers would be more useful. What is the drive speed, how much memory
is installed, and so on?

> The are running
> Vista and XP. Our Office 2003/2007 documents seem to open slow compared to
> documents I have seen opened at other firms.

Factors that might be in play:

- Different network speeds
- Opening across network vs locally from hard drive
- Different antivirus/firewall/security software
- Locally installed vs network installed printers

And if you open documents by doubleclicking their icons, the slowdown might be
due to Word/Excel starting up slowly as can happen when you've previously opened
documents from drives that are no longer present/available.



We have some heavy duty Excel
> models that should obviously open a bit slower, but even word documents tend
> to take a few seconds to open. My wife's firm had old Dell workstations,
> but their documents, even large spreadsheets seemed to open instantaneously?
> Is there something I am missing on the back end? Someone please enlighten
> me. What is the perfect IT senario for opening and running large excel
> spreadsheets? Thank you.