AJ

The virus scan is a function of your Virus Scanning application, not Excel.

Most Virus scanners have a preference setting whereby you can designate the file
types you want scanned and frequency of scanning.

Open your AV app. and look for it.

I use CA Anti-virus and it has file types exclusions you can set.

If you are hesitant about excluding file types from scanning, you can take them
out of real-time scanning and place into on-demand scanning or similar.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:17:01 -0800, AJ wrote:

Is there anyway to stop or change the frequency of the automatic virus scan
in Excel 2003?