I'd clean up windows temp folder first.

Close excel
windows start button|Run
%temp%
and click run

And clean up all the files/folders you can.

(It might be best not to have any open applications when you do this.)

JRD wrote:

I have xl 2003 but recently it seems to be taking a long time to open xl
speadsheets that aren't very large and which I am accessing from the local
harddrive. It didn't used to take so long. There are no links to other
documents.

Any ideas?

John

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Dave Peterson