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Excel 2007 very slow to open even the simplest worksheet
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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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 ... 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? |
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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? |
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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 ... 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? |
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Hi Martin,
I had done it that way so nothing to try other than your further suggestions. However, I was having some other problems with macro security. I had made My Documents and its sub folders trusted and when I removed that from the trust centre the files opened as they should by double clicking, albeit more slowly. In fact, on my system and from reading others' complaints, any xlsm files open slower AND macros act slower AND calculations are slower than their xls counterpart. It seems leaving the files as xls is the way to go for some. What has Microsoft accomplished with this version? I think a backward and confusing program for sure!! Is this program more suited to those running dual processors? Rob "Martin von Gagern" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Hi Rob!
So your files had been saved as XSLM? I haven't even looked at those new extensions so far, and right now I don't have access to that Office installation. Have you modified the open command for XSLM accordingly, or did you stick with my instructions literally which only mention XSL? I used to sign my macros with a simple self signed certificate, which made macro trust inherent to the file and not dependent on file location. But of course, the directory based solution seems more simple. On the whole I am not conviced at all by this new Office version. 1. Things in the toolbar were always accessible by one click. Now I have to select the right tab first. 2. Seldom used stuff was in the menus and had clear names. Now I only see symbols, and have to use tooltips to know what they do. 3. Most programs had the same interface based on menus, toolbar, working area. Now I have to lern new user interface concepts as Office, IE, Media Player are different from each other and from the whole rest. 4. Applications could be adapted to work with really small screen resolutions or simply small windows. Judging by the amount of area those new toolbars consume, you are effectively forced to run in full screen mode with some not-too-low resolution. About your suggestion of dual core processors: hello, has the world gone insane? Office applications are about handling office data, not about simulating fluid dynamics or rendering 3D movies! They might require some memory, but should require near to no CPU. But that it should be like this doesn't make it so, and I fear you might still be right, and it might be designed for advanced processors simply because it's easy to waste resources. For all these reasons, I did not yet update on my notebook and probably never will. And that's why I can't check about .xslm right now. Martin Rob wrote: Hi Martin, I had done it that way so nothing to try other than your further suggestions. However, I was having some other problems with macro security. I had made My Documents and its sub folders trusted and when I removed that from the trust centre the files opened as they should by double clicking, albeit more slowly. In fact, on my system and from reading others' complaints, any xlsm files open slower AND macros act slower AND calculations are slower than their xls counterpart. It seems leaving the files as xls is the way to go for some. What has Microsoft accomplished with this version? I think a backward and confusing program for sure!! Is this program more suited to those running dual processors? Rob "Martin von Gagern" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Thanks for all those comments Martin. I agree wholeheartedly that the 2007
is a pain to use. A lot of changes. Unfortunately I need to keep up with the version used at my office so I need to learn & use it. The big problem so far is working through all the workbooks created in an earlier version and making them work in the new. At my first attempt I nearly stabbed the computer to death! Boy, the calculating time is unbelievably long. I would say keep to the older version until the latest has been fixed. Or maybe 2008 will be a better year. Rob "Martin von Gagern" wrote in message ... Hi Rob! So your files had been saved as XSLM? I haven't even looked at those new extensions so far, and right now I don't have access to that Office installation. Have you modified the open command for XSLM accordingly, or did you stick with my instructions literally which only mention XSL? I used to sign my macros with a simple self signed certificate, which made macro trust inherent to the file and not dependent on file location. But of course, the directory based solution seems more simple. On the whole I am not conviced at all by this new Office version. 1. Things in the toolbar were always accessible by one click. Now I have to select the right tab first. 2. Seldom used stuff was in the menus and had clear names. Now I only see symbols, and have to use tooltips to know what they do. 3. Most programs had the same interface based on menus, toolbar, working area. Now I have to lern new user interface concepts as Office, IE, Media Player are different from each other and from the whole rest. 4. Applications could be adapted to work with really small screen resolutions or simply small windows. Judging by the amount of area those new toolbars consume, you are effectively forced to run in full screen mode with some not-too-low resolution. About your suggestion of dual core processors: hello, has the world gone insane? Office applications are about handling office data, not about simulating fluid dynamics or rendering 3D movies! They might require some memory, but should require near to no CPU. But that it should be like this doesn't make it so, and I fear you might still be right, and it might be designed for advanced processors simply because it's easy to waste resources. For all these reasons, I did not yet update on my notebook and probably never will. And that's why I can't check about .xslm right now. Martin Rob wrote: Hi Martin, I had done it that way so nothing to try other than your further suggestions. However, I was having some other problems with macro security. I had made My Documents and its sub folders trusted and when I removed that from the trust centre the files opened as they should by double clicking, albeit more slowly. In fact, on my system and from reading others' complaints, any xlsm files open slower AND macros act slower AND calculations are slower than their xls counterpart. It seems leaving the files as xls is the way to go for some. What has Microsoft accomplished with this version? I think a backward and confusing program for sure!! Is this program more suited to those running dual processors? Rob "Martin von Gagern" wrote in message ... 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? |
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I don't know why, but minimizing the Excel window after 2 or 3 seconds always
makes my files open - the window will minimize and bounce back open with your file immediately. I'd love to know why this works. "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? |
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Hi SDP!
I can only guess, but I would guess this: Explorer tries to send a DDE message, finds there is no Excel around to receive it, starts Excel, immediately sends the DDE message again, finds Excel is not ready to receive it yet, and decides to wait till excel becomes available. By some mistake, it does not wake up when excel is ready, I cannot begin to guess why that might be. Therefore it probably decides to try again after one minute, and succeeds then. Now if you press the minimize button and Excel actually changes window state, Explorer might notice this and decide to try again immediately. Wild guessing, but I'm pretty sure that DDE has its part in this. Martin SDP wrote: I don't know why, but minimizing the Excel window after 2 or 3 seconds always makes my files open - the window will minimize and bounce back open with your file immediately. I'd love to know why this works. "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? |
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Well, I just used your fix and it works great. The only thing I had to
change was #5: "List item XLS" to "List item XLSX" Thanks for the fix; it's making me look smart around the office. "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Hi SDP! I can only guess, but I would guess this: Explorer tries to send a DDE message, finds there is no Excel around to receive it, starts Excel, immediately sends the DDE message again, finds Excel is not ready to receive it yet, and decides to wait till excel becomes available. By some mistake, it does not wake up when excel is ready, I cannot begin to guess why that might be. Therefore it probably decides to try again after one minute, and succeeds then. Now if you press the minimize button and Excel actually changes window state, Explorer might notice this and decide to try again immediately. Wild guessing, but I'm pretty sure that DDE has its part in this. Martin SDP wrote: I don't know why, but minimizing the Excel window after 2 or 3 seconds always makes my files open - the window will minimize and bounce back open with your file immediately. I'd love to know why this works. "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? |
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Well, I just used your fix and it works great. The only thing I had to
change was #5: "List item XLS" to "List item XLSX" Thanks for the fix; it's making me look smart around the office. "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Hi SDP! I can only guess, but I would guess this: Explorer tries to send a DDE message, finds there is no Excel around to receive it, starts Excel, immediately sends the DDE message again, finds Excel is not ready to receive it yet, and decides to wait till excel becomes available. By some mistake, it does not wake up when excel is ready, I cannot begin to guess why that might be. Therefore it probably decides to try again after one minute, and succeeds then. Now if you press the minimize button and Excel actually changes window state, Explorer might notice this and decide to try again immediately. Wild guessing, but I'm pretty sure that DDE has its part in this. Martin SDP wrote: I don't know why, but minimizing the Excel window after 2 or 3 seconds always makes my files open - the window will minimize and bounce back open with your file immediately. I'd love to know why this works. "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? |
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Congratulations to looking smart.
Now consider how dumb MS looks in this context! After all, it's their program, their OS, they should have known how to address this issue. ;-) Martin SDP wrote: Well, I just used your fix and it works great. The only thing I had to change was #5: "List item XLS" to "List item XLSX" Thanks for the fix; it's making me look smart around the office. "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Hi SDP! I can only guess, but I would guess this: Explorer tries to send a DDE message, finds there is no Excel around to receive it, starts Excel, immediately sends the DDE message again, finds Excel is not ready to receive it yet, and decides to wait till excel becomes available. By some mistake, it does not wake up when excel is ready, I cannot begin to guess why that might be. Therefore it probably decides to try again after one minute, and succeeds then. Now if you press the minimize button and Excel actually changes window state, Explorer might notice this and decide to try again immediately. Wild guessing, but I'm pretty sure that DDE has its part in this. Martin SDP wrote: I don't know why, but minimizing the Excel window after 2 or 3 seconds always makes my files open - the window will minimize and bounce back open with your file immediately. I'd love to know why this works. "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? |
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I had the same [slow opening] issue. Martin's solution worked for me.
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Martin, This is some time later than your post, however I have just started with the verrry slow opening of 2007 excel spreadsheets. I'm running xp with Office 2007 upgrade. I searched Discussion groups and found your reply. My problem is; Try as I may, I cannot locate Menu item FOLDER OPTIONS (forgive the shouting) Could you possibly start me from the beginning? It appears your fix works for all who are smarter than me in getting to the right church. Thanks in advance Bob "Martin von Gagern" wrote: 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? |
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Hi Robert!
I'm not sure whether this is going to help, but let's start from the beginning. 1. Klick on the Start menu button in the lower left corner 2. Choose the Applications submenu and look for Windows Explorer 1.+2. Instead of 1. and 2. as described above, you may also press and hold your Windows key and then press E 3. Now you should see an Explorer window, and this window should have a menu bar 4. Choose the "Tools" menu 5. Look for anything remotely like "Folder Options" 6. Now you are ready for step 4. of my online instruction This description can, however, be inaccurate for several reasons. 1. I wrote it down from memory, as I'm usually using Linux and only boot Windows when I can't avoid to. 2. My Windows is all German, and although I was told that my translations to english were correct, there might still be an error there. I have seen a screenshot of the "Folder Options" dialog box, so that's really its name, but the menu item might be called differently. 3. This was for Windows XP, but I guess other versions of Windows might have other versions of Explorer with different menu entries. In case all else fails, you might well ask here on this forum about where to find this dialog, for someone out there is bound to have the same version of windows as you do and have located it. Greetings, Martin von Gagern robert morris wrote: Martin, This is some time later than your post, however I have just started with the verrry slow opening of 2007 excel spreadsheets. I'm running xp with Office 2007 upgrade. I searched Discussion groups and found your reply. My problem is; Try as I may, I cannot locate Menu item FOLDER OPTIONS (forgive the shouting) Could you possibly start me from the beginning? It appears your fix works for all who are smarter than me in getting to the right church. Thanks in advance Bob "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Does http://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007load help? |
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Martin,
Beautiful!! Excel sheets now open approx 20 times faster. Before, took 40-45 seconds, now, 2 - seconds. Many thanks. Where is Microsoft on this one? I suppose they are busy repairing Vista and 2007. Bob Morris "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Hi Robert! I'm not sure whether this is going to help, but let's start from the beginning. 1. Klick on the Start menu button in the lower left corner 2. Choose the Applications submenu and look for Windows Explorer 1.+2. Instead of 1. and 2. as described above, you may also press and hold your Windows key and then press E 3. Now you should see an Explorer window, and this window should have a menu bar 4. Choose the "Tools" menu 5. Look for anything remotely like "Folder Options" 6. Now you are ready for step 4. of my online instruction This description can, however, be inaccurate for several reasons. 1. I wrote it down from memory, as I'm usually using Linux and only boot Windows when I can't avoid to. 2. My Windows is all German, and although I was told that my translations to english were correct, there might still be an error there. I have seen a screenshot of the "Folder Options" dialog box, so that's really its name, but the menu item might be called differently. 3. This was for Windows XP, but I guess other versions of Windows might have other versions of Explorer with different menu entries. In case all else fails, you might well ask here on this forum about where to find this dialog, for someone out there is bound to have the same version of windows as you do and have located it. Greetings, Martin von Gagern robert morris wrote: Martin, This is some time later than your post, however I have just started with the verrry slow opening of 2007 excel spreadsheets. I'm running xp with Office 2007 upgrade. I searched Discussion groups and found your reply. My problem is; Try as I may, I cannot locate Menu item FOLDER OPTIONS (forgive the shouting) Could you possibly start me from the beginning? It appears your fix works for all who are smarter than me in getting to the right church. Thanks in advance Bob "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Does http://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007load help? |
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Martin,
I too used your method, which worked well for a time, but now, it doesn't. If I repair Office and/or completely uninstall and reinstall and make the same changes of adding the "%1" and [rem see command line], to the appropriate sections to the relevant file types, the problem is fixed again. BUT the problem doesn't stay fixed!!! After a while, the same slow opening of the file occurs when trying to open it from a shortcut if Excel is not already open. The unusual occurrence of double clicking an Excel shortcut, then minimizing the Excel program also once used to be a fix, as Excel would automatically maximize again and open the file. However, that doesn't even work any more as the file is no longer being opened by that procedure. Anything else to try? Rob "robert morris" wrote in message ... Martin, Beautiful!! Excel sheets now open approx 20 times faster. Before, took 40-45 seconds, now, 2 - seconds. Many thanks. Where is Microsoft on this one? I suppose they are busy repairing Vista and 2007. Bob Morris "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Hi Robert! I'm not sure whether this is going to help, but let's start from the beginning. 1. Klick on the Start menu button in the lower left corner 2. Choose the Applications submenu and look for Windows Explorer 1.+2. Instead of 1. and 2. as described above, you may also press and hold your Windows key and then press E 3. Now you should see an Explorer window, and this window should have a menu bar 4. Choose the "Tools" menu 5. Look for anything remotely like "Folder Options" 6. Now you are ready for step 4. of my online instruction This description can, however, be inaccurate for several reasons. 1. I wrote it down from memory, as I'm usually using Linux and only boot Windows when I can't avoid to. 2. My Windows is all German, and although I was told that my translations to english were correct, there might still be an error there. I have seen a screenshot of the "Folder Options" dialog box, so that's really its name, but the menu item might be called differently. 3. This was for Windows XP, but I guess other versions of Windows might have other versions of Explorer with different menu entries. In case all else fails, you might well ask here on this forum about where to find this dialog, for someone out there is bound to have the same version of windows as you do and have located it. Greetings, Martin von Gagern robert morris wrote: Martin, This is some time later than your post, however I have just started with the verrry slow opening of 2007 excel spreadsheets. I'm running xp with Office 2007 upgrade. I searched Discussion groups and found your reply. My problem is; Try as I may, I cannot locate Menu item FOLDER OPTIONS (forgive the shouting) Could you possibly start me from the beginning? It appears your fix works for all who are smarter than me in getting to the right church. Thanks in advance Bob "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Does http://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007load help? |
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Hi Rob!
Did I get this right, that Excel is slow to start again after a while, even though the fix still seems to be in place, i.e. the dialog still shows the described modification? You should check whether the command you edit is the command that gets executed. Change it to something else entirely, e.g. Edit.exe or some such. If it still opens Excel, then it's executing some other command, but if it opens the other program but after changing back opening Excel is still slow, then Excel became slow to open files given on the command line as well. If Excel is executing some different command, then you could look for other file associations. Excel 2007 has quite a few formats, and while I only described XLS, it might be that some of them use different settings, and that your doubleclick triggerd one of these others. If you suspect Excel is starting slow for command line arguments as well, you might try to enter the whole command, with the actual file name instead of %1, into a command line window. If that is slow as well, then Microsoft really broke something even more, otherwise it might also be Explorer being slow to decide whether Excel is running or not. In any case, it would be interesting what kind of action makes the system slow again. I suspect it could be some kind of automatic update. Generally all of you should probably complain to your vendor or some official Microsoft support contact if you can. My fix is a workaround, for those annoyed enough to search and lucky enough to find help. A real fix would be for everyone, distributed by Microsoft. So let them know there is a problem. Greetings, Martin von Gagern RobN wrote: Martin, I too used your method, which worked well for a time, but now, it doesn't. If I repair Office and/or completely uninstall and reinstall and make the same changes of adding the "%1" and [rem see command line], to the appropriate sections to the relevant file types, the problem is fixed again. BUT the problem doesn't stay fixed!!! After a while, the same slow opening of the file occurs when trying to open it from a shortcut if Excel is not already open. The unusual occurrence of double clicking an Excel shortcut, then minimizing the Excel program also once used to be a fix, as Excel would automatically maximize again and open the file. However, that doesn't even work any more as the file is no longer being opened by that procedure. Anything else to try? Rob |
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Martin,
Thanks for your reply. I changed the line "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Excel.EXE" /e "%1" to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Winword.EXE" /e "%1" . Then, double clicking the shortcut to the excel file, opened Word, but strangely, it tried to open the Excel file which of course it couldn't. Anyway, I changed it back again and amazingly, the file now opens straight away! I won't say it's fixed for good but is working for now. Thanks again, Rob "Martin von Gagern" wrote in message ... Hi Rob! Did I get this right, that Excel is slow to start again after a while, even though the fix still seems to be in place, i.e. the dialog still shows the described modification? You should check whether the command you edit is the command that gets executed. Change it to something else entirely, e.g. Edit.exe or some such. If it still opens Excel, then it's executing some other command, but if it opens the other program but after changing back opening Excel is still slow, then Excel became slow to open files given on the command line as well. If Excel is executing some different command, then you could look for other file associations. Excel 2007 has quite a few formats, and while I only described XLS, it might be that some of them use different settings, and that your doubleclick triggerd one of these others. If you suspect Excel is starting slow for command line arguments as well, you might try to enter the whole command, with the actual file name instead of %1, into a command line window. If that is slow as well, then Microsoft really broke something even more, otherwise it might also be Explorer being slow to decide whether Excel is running or not. In any case, it would be interesting what kind of action makes the system slow again. I suspect it could be some kind of automatic update. Generally all of you should probably complain to your vendor or some official Microsoft support contact if you can. My fix is a workaround, for those annoyed enough to search and lucky enough to find help. A real fix would be for everyone, distributed by Microsoft. So let them know there is a problem. Greetings, Martin von Gagern RobN wrote: Martin, I too used your method, which worked well for a time, but now, it doesn't. If I repair Office and/or completely uninstall and reinstall and make the same changes of adding the "%1" and [rem see command line], to the appropriate sections to the relevant file types, the problem is fixed again. BUT the problem doesn't stay fixed!!! After a while, the same slow opening of the file occurs when trying to open it from a shortcut if Excel is not already open. The unusual occurrence of double clicking an Excel shortcut, then minimizing the Excel program also once used to be a fix, as Excel would automatically maximize again and open the file. However, that doesn't even work any more as the file is no longer being opened by that procedure. Anything else to try? Rob |
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I have found this solution quite late but it worked beatifully! Thank you!
"Martin von Gagern" wrote: 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? |
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Will this work for Word (.doc)?
"Martin von Gagern" wrote: 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? |
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On Jan 7, 7:23*pm, illinois
wrote: Will this work for Word (.doc)? "Martin von Gagern" wrote: Doeshttp://martin.von-gagern.net/howtos/excel2007loadhelp? 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?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - All, these are the registry changes if you want to write it into a simple batch file - one for .xls and one for .xlsx: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command] @="\"H:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE\" /e \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\comman d] @="\"H:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\EXCEL.EXE\" /e \"1% \"" If you are working on a big network you could add this to a login script to deploy it to everyone at once. Here's hoping MS come up with a proper solution soon. m. |
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Tried to follow your suggestion. Step #6 Button Advanced does not exist.
My problem Current performance of Excel 2007 under WinXP 2GB Ram 1.8Ghz cpu vs Excel 2003 under Vista 2GB ram 1.8 Ghz cpu In both cases I had the file on my desktop and no other programs were running Open the file by dble click Excel 07 22 sec Excel 03 11 sec including click on warning to enable macros Change the value of a single cell to 566 Worksheet FID IRS Cell G12 Excel 03 <1 sec Excel 07 Gave up after two minutes. Attempted to close Excell which caused crash of program Bottom line Excell 2007 appears not to be out of Beta. "Martin von Gagern" wrote: 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? |
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On Friday, April 13, 2007 9:08:03 PM UTC+5:30, 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? hi first copy all copy and open new file right click paste special ok |
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