I found what I was looking for at the Microsoft Knowledge Base, and
searched for "File Open" under Excel 2002. The following link solved my
problem, and fixed the same problem with Microsoft Word. I hope this
might help others...

http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=xl2002

Bernie


On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:08:04 -0600, bw wrote:

File Open take a long time to populate the list (the hour glass appears
each time I do a File Open). I have 1081 items in my Documents
directory.

Can someone help me speed this up and explain why it takes so long?

Thanks,
Bernie