I use hyperlinking in Excel to link to PDF files which are held on the web.

The problem I have is opening the files in Excel takes a long time i.e the file appears to download in Excel and then open in the PDF client on the machine.

When i open the link directly in a web browser the file opens in a fraction of the time.

So my question is , is there a way to direct the link out of Excel and open in a web browser or speed up the download process in Excel ?

Thanks in advance for any help .