Niek,

Thanks for the quick response. We had tripped across that web site last
week when the problem was first reported. There is no error displayed, the
files just take a long time to open and now I have been told to close also.

I did double-check the items on that site to make sure that we didn't miss
anything.

There was only the 'Auto Save' plug-in selected. The temp files were
deleted. Only the 'PDFMaker.xla' in the XLstart directory.

We are running Symantec AV software but are using the Enterprise version so
there is no anti-virus plug-in loaded.

If you have any other suggestions, I will take them. I and several others
here are at a loss.

Thanks,
Gilley

"Niek Otten" wrote:

Hi Gilley,

Check Jan Karel Pieterse's list he

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.htm

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Gilley" wrote in message
...
We have several users on Excel 2000 and Win 98. A few of them have
reported
recently that their spreadsheets are opening much slower that before. It
doesn't matter if it is a complicated/large spreadsheet or a small one.
Most
of the spreadsheets are on a network drive versus a local drive. In some
cases, rebooting the system puts things back to normal. This morning a
62k
file took over 3 minutes to load. That seems a little long. We have
cleaned
out the temp files but that hasn't seemed to help.

Any suggestions?
Gilley