Microsoft Word and Excel open slowly
To resolve the issue with Microsoft Word and Excel opening slowly follow the steps below.
- go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types
- scroll down to and select DOC (for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files)
- click Advanced
- select Open entry
- click the edit Button
- Now uncheck "Use DDE"
- put your cursor in the Application box
- arrow all the way to the right and put in "%1" (include the quotemarks)
- if there is /dde remove it
- then OK you way out
You should now be back to working normally.
posted by George Phillips Computer Services @ 11:08 PM
2 Comments:
At April 16, 2009 9:06 AM ,
Craig said...
thank you so much...life is so much better now.
At June 2, 2009 11:04 AM ,
Ol' Man Parks said...
This tip worked very well. An explanation of what this is doing and why it works would be nice.
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