Office 2003 does not have a virus scanner. Presumably, it is your
Norton of McAfee or whatever that is scanning Office files when
you open them. In Norton, you can disable this by opening
Norton, choosing Options, then Miscellaneous, and unchecking the
"Enable Office Plug In" setting.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"nowhereman" wrote in message
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Anyone know how to disable virus scanner in excel (part of
office 2003)

I open a lot of large files which i know do not need scanned
and it
takes forever to open each file because of virus scanner

TIA

NM