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I ran into this today and after some searching around I found this thread on the microsoft site. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsg...f3-67fdc7a0e70c The last post contained the solution that worked for me - I've copied the material below. I did this for both Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS). Regards, Steve ------- Begin quote ------- Go to the Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types. Highlight XLS extension and then click Advanced. Click Open from the list, and then click Edit. Add "%1" (quotes are needed) to the end of the Application used string (which will be /e for the Excel XLS extension.) Also uncheck the DDE box. This strategy resolved my problems for Excel and for Word. I did not come up with this solution myself...I found it on the Excel 2007 forum and I have included a copy of that post below. Thanks Starksnet! Best Wishes, Jim 23 Jan 2007, 10:48 PM UTC Starksnet Posts 3 Re: Excel 2007 SLOW Comment This post has a code sample within it. Was this post helpful ? Reply Quote This help for me... When you double click on a excel file in explorer it's just waiting and when you push the office button at the left top corner it opens, correct? If this is your problem then you have to add the following to the file types properties "%1" (also the quotes are necessary) So open explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types got to the .XL?? extension click Advanced select the bold action -> Edit and in the box under "Application used..." go to the end and add the "%1" after the /e so for the .XLSX Extensions Open command this becomes "<Installation Folder>\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1" When it's the new action it should be "<Installation Folder>\EXCEL.EXE /e "%1" /n Did that for all the default actions of all Excel file types and now it doesn't give me any problems anymore, didn't tried it yet for the other applications cause they don't give me problems... ------- End quote -------