Hi Rob!

Yes, remove / and e, add "%1" including quotes, and the [ ] brackets in
[rem see command line] are to be included as well. Maybe I'll formulate
this more clearly.

So if this did not solve the issue for you, you can try some
intermediate steps I tried while examining this problem.
1. Double-click an Excel document while another is already open
2. Start Excel from the start menu, then double-click a document
3. Start Excel and open the document using the open dialog
4. Remove the [rem ...] and open a document

All these solutions resulted in the file being opened quickly for me.
4. however caused the document to be opened again when closing Excel, or
in an error message from Explorer, at least in some cases.

If all of these approaches fail, then it looks like your Excel is really
busy loading the file. Have a look at the Task Manager's process list to
see whether Excel or the idle process consume more CPU. I always had the
system idle while waiting that minute.

Let's see if we can get this solved for you as well...

Martin

Rob wrote:
Hi Martin,

I tried that solution but did not make any difference. Maybe I didn't
follow the procedure exactly. The instructions that were given I have
produced below as they are a bit confusing.....
Application for this operation:
At the end of the line, replace /e with "%1"

Does that mean I remove the / (the forward slash) and the e, and add "%1"
including the quotation marks?

DDE-Application not active:
Insert new text: [rem see command line]
Do I include the [ and the ] brackets?

Rob


"Martin von Gagern" wrote in message
...
Does http://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007load help?
I wrote about this in another thread here, but I know many people only
monitor their own thread. Sorry for the duplicate to everyone else.

John wrote:
I have worksheets that only have from 1 to 7 rows and Excel 2007 takes
anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds to open these worksheets. I am running
Windows XP SP2
on a IBM/Lenova with 1 Gig of ram and a 3 Ghz processor.

Is there any setting I can change (or turn off) to speed this muther up?