Excel has a known problem opening/saving files over a WAN: the only bypass
is to filecopy the workbook to a C drive at open time, but this of course
gets very tricky if the users need to modify the workbook.

Otherwise you just need a faster WAN ...

see Q254733 for an article discussing some aspects of the WAN problem

Charles
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"TJ Dowling" wrote in message
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Does anyone have experience with designing Excel spreadsheets for better
performance over a WAN?

I have some users that have large files that take forever to load over a
WAN link. Since they share them with other users at different locations,
it
needs to be on the WAN.

I wasn't sure if there were some design tips that I was missing that could
lead to improved performance. Please advise if you have a tip.

Thanks,
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TJ Dowling