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Excel slow to open
My excel failed to close, and then after my computer was restarted, it said
it had recovered two excel files i had been working on, ever since, excel is extremely slow to open, and operate, how can I figure out what is wrong and fix it? (Of course my excel files are crucial to my work, eek! such is life) Any ideas |
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Hi Ashley
Try saving the files as a standard name i.e. so it does not show Filename(Version).xls [Recovered] in the title bar. Then close the files, close Excel and re-open. -- Regards Roger Govier "Ashley Mae" <Ashley Mae @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... My excel failed to close, and then after my computer was restarted, it said it had recovered two excel files i had been working on, ever since, excel is extremely slow to open, and operate, how can I figure out what is wrong and fix it? (Of course my excel files are crucial to my work, eek! such is life) Any ideas |
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Ok I tried that, and as long as excel is running, and i open the files it's
at normal speed, but to open excel/shut it, i think it's still to slow? Any ideas? I appreciate the help! Ashley "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Ashley Try saving the files as a standard name i.e. so it does not show Filename(Version).xls [Recovered] in the title bar. Then close the files, close Excel and re-open. -- Regards Roger Govier "Ashley Mae" <Ashley Mae @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... My excel failed to close, and then after my computer was restarted, it said it had recovered two excel files i had been working on, ever since, excel is extremely slow to open, and operate, how can I figure out what is wrong and fix it? (Of course my excel files are crucial to my work, eek! such is life) Any ideas |
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Ok, JOB #1: and this is without regards to any problem you may be having at
this time - you said the files are crucial to your work. BACK UP those files routinely - preferably to another drive. Last thing you want are crucial files of any kind only in one location and then have that one location become unavailable such as through a hard drive crash or power glitch that hoses even 'just' a single file. To err(or) at a critical moment is typical, to have a recent backup is simply divine! Scary, but true testimonials: I've seen this happen myself (to me): worked on bunch of stuff all morning, took a short (less than 5 minute) break - drive was dead! Only having a backup from previous day saved me from an absolute disaster. More recently a CPA had critical files relating to several jobs on his laptop. Even though the system had given him warnings that things weren't right he continued to use it without backups of those files. It failed. I spent 13 hours of my time and about $100 of his money, recovering those files for him as a favor - later he gave me (and I accepted) another $200 in appreciation. So besides a near heart attack, his lack of backup cost him $300 in cold hard cash. As for your immediate problem: you might try a repair install of Office. If you have 2007, try using the diagnostic tools available to see if it notices any problems with itself. Try running chkdsk to see if the system can detect errors on your drive: Start | Run type in chkdsk and press [Enter] and it will open a command window and begin running the test against the C: drive. More information on the options available with chkdsk: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true "Ashley Mae" wrote: Ok I tried that, and as long as excel is running, and i open the files it's at normal speed, but to open excel/shut it, i think it's still to slow? Any ideas? I appreciate the help! Ashley "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Ashley Try saving the files as a standard name i.e. so it does not show Filename(Version).xls [Recovered] in the title bar. Then close the files, close Excel and re-open. -- Regards Roger Govier "Ashley Mae" <Ashley Mae @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... My excel failed to close, and then after my computer was restarted, it said it had recovered two excel files i had been working on, ever since, excel is extremely slow to open, and operate, how can I figure out what is wrong and fix it? (Of course my excel files are crucial to my work, eek! such is life) Any ideas |
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