Anyone know how to disable virus scanner in excel (part of office 2003)

I open a lot of large files which i know do not need scanned and it
takes forever to open each file because of virus scanner

TIA

NM

Office 2003 does not have a virus scanner. Presumably, it is your
Norton of McAfee or whatever that is scanning Office files when
you open them. In Norton, you can disable this by opening
Norton, choosing Options, then Miscellaneous, and unchecking the
"Enable Office Plug In" setting.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"nowhereman" wrote in message
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Anyone know how to disable virus scanner in excel (part of
office 2003)

I open a lot of large files which i know do not need scanned
and it
takes forever to open each file because of virus scanner

TIA

NM

I am using Norton AntiVirus. There is a checkbox in the options of NAV
which says something like enable office plugin.

Uncheck it.
If you are using some other virus scanner, I cannot help you


"nowhereman" wrote in message
. 150...
Anyone know how to disable virus scanner in excel (part of office 2003)

I open a lot of large files which i know do not need scanned and it
takes forever to open each file because of virus scanner

TIA

NM

"Chip Pearson" wrote in news:ONMgAcyfEHA.2592
@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

Office 2003 does not have a virus scanner. Presumably, it is your
Norton of McAfee or whatever that is scanning Office files when
you open them. In Norton, you can disable this by opening
Norton, choosing Options, then Miscellaneous, and unchecking the
"Enable Office Plug In" setting.



Thank You,

DUH!!!....Never thought of checking "Virus Scanning Software" That was much
to simple....worked great

Thanks again