It takes two full minutes to open existing files in Office 2003
 

It takes 2 minutes to open existing files in Excel and Word. This began a
few weeks ago. All other functions work well and speed within the files is
excellent.

It takes two full minutes to open existing files in Office 2003
 

I'm not sure if this will help in MSWord--if it doesn't, you may want to ask in
an MSWord forum.

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If it's just your pc, how about a silly guess?

Clean up your windows temp folder.

Close excel
windows start button|Run
%temp%
is a quick way to get there.

And here are a couple of sites that discuss slow performance. The first is by
Charles Williams and the second by David McRitchie:

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm

Steve 2001 wrote:

It takes 2 minutes to open existing files in Excel and Word. This began a
few weeks ago. All other functions work well and speed within the files is
excellent.

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Dave Peterson