Thanks John for your input.

Rob

"John" wrote in message
...
Rob,

Martins solution works great! Thanks Martin. The "Application to Perform
Action" should look like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" "%1"


"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
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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?