Slow to Open, Small Workbook <2MB, HTML Paste, VBA procedures
 

I have a small Excel 2003 workbook 1,300kb that takes 3 to 5 minutes to open.
It was created in 2006 and has been opened daily since then.

One sheet in the book is overwritten each morning with a paste from a web
site.

That one sheet has litterly thousands of VBA procedures like the one below
(No code just the Sub - end sub). They must be being created automatically
from the html paste each morning.

Private Sub HTMLHidden999_Click()

End Sub

I suspect upon open, VBA is inspecting and compiling each sub causing the
slow to open problem.

1) Am I correct?
2) Is there a solution short of deleting each proc?
3) How do I prevent in the future?

Thanks in advance
Fred.