Hello As title says.

I have a Excel file stored on W:\myexcelfiles.xls (network) and whenever its open its just hangs forever. I have to ctrl+alt+delete and shut excel down.

If I copy the file manually to my desktop and then run it from the desktop it works fine!

Its excel 2003. Has anyone come across a similar thing, is this a network or excel issue?

The excel file is 24MB, I dont know if that has any relevance. The PC im using should be perfectly capable of handling this, so I dont think its a hardware issue.