Many people have run into this. At this point the only sure fix is to have
Excel open. Hopefully this will be fixed in the first service release of
Excel 2007.

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Jim
"Alan" wrote in message
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| When excel is closed on the workstation and you try to open a file from
the
| server on your workstation it is delayed up to 3 mins. I am pulling the
file
| from my documents and exploring to the drive on the server. If excel is
| opened on the workstation it open right then, requesting the file from
within
| excel or from my documents. So far this has appeared on 2 workstations.
Any
| ideas?