DayLaborer
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What do you suggest when my home PC (XP Pro) recently has slowed down tremendously when opening Office docs?
Thanks,
Eliezer
Thanks,
Eliezer
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Office 2003: very slow opening up documents
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The question is a bit vague. It could be related to all sorts of things, but more than likely, if it has just started occurring, then something has changed.
Either new software installed and/or
new hardware and/or
failing hardware and/or
New Updates applied - Windows and/or Office.
Are you saying it's ALL documents, or just specific one(s)? That is a big key as well. Say you normally have 1000 or less rows of 3 to 5 columns open in an excel workbook (worksheet specifically), but one day you decide to open a worksheet that has 12 columns by 60,000 rows, and in each row, there are at least 2 formulas? That's a BIG change - the amount of RAM would then possibly run out - I've had it happen.
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Either new software installed and/or
new hardware and/or
failing hardware and/or
New Updates applied - Windows and/or Office.
Are you saying it's ALL documents, or just specific one(s)? That is a big key as well. Say you normally have 1000 or less rows of 3 to 5 columns open in an excel workbook (worksheet specifically), but one day you decide to open a worksheet that has 12 columns by 60,000 rows, and in each row, there are at least 2 formulas? That's a BIG change - the amount of RAM would then possibly run out - I've had it happen.
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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me
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