Prevent Excel from starting from Sharepoint?

[Jacc]

I have made an Excel application that will create pdf's from a list of data. The Excel application and the pdf's live in a folder on Sharepoint.

For most people in my office this works fine, the pdf is created and saved in seconds. For me, however, it takes up to 4 minutes(!) for the same process.

I finally found that it depends on how you start Excel. If I start Excel by clicking the icon direct in the Office 16 folder then it works fast for me too.
If I start Excel by clicking the icon in the Sharepoint folder then I get the slooooow behavior.

What is going on? How can I be sure that this doesn't happen to one of my users? Something about Excel shortcuts and/or switches or something like that.




My thread on a vaguely related issue here for anyone who wants something to read: https://www.excelforum.com/excel-pro...en-saving.html

[Special-K]

Do bioth shortcuts point to the same Excel or are there different targets being run?

[TMS]

I suspect one is loading the application locally, and the other is loading it across the network. Complete guess though.

[CK76]

This can be due to permission setting on SharePoint side. Check if you have different document launching permission from everyone else.
Can't remember where exactly you'd find it, but try SharePoint administration or Site management (It's been a while since I extensively worked with SharePoint...)