"Skoal" wrote in message
...
in a machine with all office updates and xp sp2, when using excell (2000)
if
you move from cell to cell either to edit data or just to format a group
of
cells it takes about a minute. even in a new empty excel spread sheet.

is there a setting or maybe one of the updates cause the program to do a
search or something to delay the switching between cells?

any help would be appreciated.

On all worksheets/workbooks? It's possible that you have a macro that you
trigger when you change the selection.

/Fredrik