External Data Refresh is extermely slow after upgrading to 2003
 

I found that after I upgraded to Excel 2003, my MS queries that pull data
from other Excel files is extermely slow. From seconds to manay minutes.
Over 5 minutes to pull in 1000 rows of data containing 8 columns of numbers.

Other users who have Excel 2003 do not have a problem with the refreshing of
the data. I have tested this with the files on my local and over the
network. Same issue

I have tried re-installing, defragmenting, etc. No luck. Any ideas?


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SP