Excel taking too long to open up

Hi!

I got a Excel file that's about 2MB in size, which take about 5 mins just to
open. This only happens when i open it using OfficeXP Pro. Our OfficeXP Pro
has been patched with the latest sp and all the patches. This problem doesn't
occur when i open it with Office2003 Pro.

I've tried to remane the file and save it into another location, but it's
still the same.
This file is used by a group of about 5 persons for updating our daily task
completed. It has multiple worksheet as one worksheet is created everyday. I
have a similar file which is larger in size 3MB. That file open up almost
immediately.

Any idea what's wrong with it? Any suggestion that i can try to solve this?

Thks!

hi,
The following may be way off the mark or it may help (as I don't have specific knowledge about software versions):

Does the status bar (shown bottom left of screen & turned on under View - Status Bar) give any clues/comments while it is opening?
Does the file have any references/links to external files?
If so, try opening the other file/s first.
Another possibility is the amount of temp files etc you have in the slow computer.

Also I just did a quick search in Excelforum.com, & the following may help:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm
http://excelforum.com/showthread.php...ight=slow+open
http://excelforum.com/showthread.php...ight=slow+open
http://excelforum.com/showthread.php...ight=slow+open
http://excelforum.com/showthread.php...ight=slow+open

- hopefully, my bumping the thread will bring someone with more knowledge into the picture :-)

Rob Brockett
NZ
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