Opening office 2007 files slow

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Jay Freedman MVP. Try to repair the Office installation. Step 3 there is written for the latest versions of Office, but for Office you'll see an installer dialog box where you should click the Repair option button and then click Continue. How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Jay Freedman's post on May 8, Tried your suggestions and nothing worked. Uninstalled Microsoft Office and reinstalled and it did not help at all.

Still takes 35 seconds for word to open or a word document to open. Friday, May 9, PM. I didn't seem to get much help from this forum but I will pass on the fix that I have found. Wednesday, May 14, PM. Uninstalling the PDF maker resolved the issue for me as well. I think this all started for me when I installed a new scanner the software that came packaged with it.

Thank you so much. This has been a major thorn in my side for a few weeks now. Thursday, May 15, PM. Wednesday, June 4, PM. Thanks Steve, That solved my problem! I will be sure to pass that on to the client software team. Friday, June 6, PM. Excellent - My client had PDF installed, once removed it fixed the problem. Tuesday, June 10, AM. I started having this problem, too. It occurred only in Excel and not Word. This thread helped me solve the problem by removing the pdfMaker file in XLStart.

I pass this along for those who are not successful after removing the first pdfMaker. Look for other XLStart files. Good luck. Saturday, June 14, PM. Many thanks this worked a treat, pity Microsoft did not tkae this on board. Wednesday, August 20, PM. Wednesday, October 29, AM. Thanks Steve. Saturday, November 8, PM. Sunday, November 9, AM. The only problem with this solution is after removing that folder and you open a xls worksheet it recreates that folder.

Sunday, November 9, PM. Steve, I am also facing the same problem. Friday, November 14, AM. I am having the same issue as Priyaja. Tuesday, January 6, PM. I have this problem on all my machines at work.

Enabling an addon in Excel fixed it on one machine so far. Seems as if Excel doesn't have any addons it freaks out trying to find out where they are. Thursday, January 29, AM. I know this is for Excel but just in case someone comes across this thread and needs it! Here's an article that address the speed issue when opening up older Excel files in Excel There is a delay when opening Excel files compared to any other file type and below is a compiled list of fixed.

Friday, July 10, AM. This was great, it provided me an area to look in. My symptoms were similar but seemed to get worse over time. I only found out about this problem because I have been working from home the past 2 weeks and I was to the point where I couldn't even move from cell to cell without it taking over 5 minutes to come back to me. So with me, Excel was slow because somehow my default template had received an add-in from a network location at my office. As soon as I deleted this add-in, it resolved my problems immediately.

Wednesday, August 12, PM. Thursday, August 27, PM. I also checked the xlstart folder and jgb nailed it - I had installed the Brother P-Touch add-in for Excel, which worked fine with Office XP and , but caused the exact same problem as the Acrobat add-in. Thank you, MS programmers, for forcing me to go back to doing my server labels the old, non-automated way. No wonder everyone is fed up with MS. Thursday, September 3, AM.

I tried all the above solutions and nothing worked for me. That worked. Very relieved. I added servername. Post a Comment. I reverted to my old debugging method - opening the file in Notepad. Every time. Bingo - load times were back to normal! Because the network location path does not now exist, the Office program may run slowly and may appear to stop responding hang.

This situation may also occur if your connection to your network is slow because your Office program has to make multiple queries to the network to obtain the correct file information. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

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