It is your AV application that is requesting the scan.

Somewhere in its configuration should be a dialog where you can disable/enable
scans for particular file types.

Look for where you can set "exclusions" or similar.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:58:09 -0800, Ken in Indiana <Ken in
wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to stop the virus scan from running
everytime i open a xlsx file? Is this an Excel thing or is my virus
protection doing this as i have not set it to do this. If it is possible in
Excel I only want it to be off for the documents I choose.

Thank you in advance
Ken