Search your hard drive for a folder named XLSTART ... Anything that loads when you start Excel will be in there....try moving everything out of that folder and see if Excel starts up faster. Also, if you have any addins loading in Excel, that will slow the startup down also....go to Tools>Add-Ins and see if anything is checked in there....if it is, uncheck them and start Excel again and see if it loads faster. After you've moved everything out of there, you can start adding them back one at a time and see which ones affect startup the most....the choice will be yours...do you want startup speed or do you want the features that are loading on startup. Oh ... You may have more than one XLSTART folder so check all of them. Linda F. Johnson Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com All outgoing mail checked by Norton AV. If you received a "bug" that looked like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Gilman Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:48 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Excel 2003 I have MS Office 2003 Pro edition. I Have Word, Outlook, Access, PPoint and Excel installed. I have a Dell desktop, 2.8 GHz, 1 GHz Ram, 160 GB HD. The problem I have is that when I try to open Excel, it akes almost a minut to open it up. Did the same ting on my old computer. All the other Office apps open quickly. Any ideas why it takes so long for Excel to open? Thanks ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************