Comments on: Slow Opening Excel 2003 Files in Excel 2007 (Updated)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:53:48 +0000

Thank you for the tip about Alt+T that worked to find the tool bars but now the screen shot is not the same as the options folder that appeared to me. Do you have any instructions how to fix the problem from the vista view? I dont have a tab that says file types after I get into folder options. Let me know if you can help, Thanks

By: m3Rlin

m3Rlin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:16:15 +0000

Hi Chris,

If you’re using Vista (this also works for Windows 7) then just press Alt + T and the Tools menu will appear. Although you can show / hide the menus as you wish the keyboard shortcuts continue to work (Alt + F, Alt + E, etc.)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:26:38 +0000

No tools show up in my windows explorer, I am currently running vista any ideas how to do this fix or how I cant find the tools? I cant find anything that looks like the screen shot of the window above.

By: R James

R James — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:27:49 +0000

I had this problem and found that Explorer had become the default program to run these files. I just changed the default to Excel and it worked fine. Windows explorer – tools – folder options – File types – scroll and highlight XLS. Make sure it says “Opens with Microsoft Office Excel”

By: Vanassa Gaines

Vanassa Gaines — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:57:14 +0000

I have an excel file I cannot open on my flash drive can you help me

By: Photonics

Photonics — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:32:46 +0000

We import 2500 cells of data (text and numbers, no formulae) in four columns from another program into Excel, automatically opening Excel from the other program.
With earlier Excel, this was virtually instant. With Excel 2007 it takes several minutes.

Suggestion to Microsoft. A simple fix would be to allow the Excel 2007 users to reduce their Excel 2007 rows, columns and sheet count to the Excel 2003 settings. Let’s face it, having mega numbers of rows, columns and sheets may be a macho statement, but is a waste of time for 99.999% of Excel Users, so why saddle them with this bloated time and memory hogging overhead as the default settings.

By: Dilettante

Dilettante — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:55:55 +0000

Tried all the above solutions – none of them worked.
BEWARE OF NA’s Registry fix solution – especially if you have a parallel installation of Excel 2003 or if you have customised menus and toolbars – this “fix” will wipe them out, and it still won’t solve the problem od slow opening files

Also, BEWARE of the “%1″ solution – it will mess with the way Excel opens and will screw up the loading any macros that you have stored in your personal.xls(b) files

By: Zeeshan Haider

Zeeshan Haider — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:52:26 +0000

i add “%1″ but after again open the error is C:/Documents.xls could not be found

By: NA

NA — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:42:39 +0000

Tried everything. – uninstalled, re-installed, ran CCleaner to get rid of temp files and reg entries, did ‘‘Ignore other applications that use DDE’’, deleted personal.xls, disabled plug ins, deleted pdfmaker, NOTHING worked.

The following did:

In Registry, scroll down to >
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft

Here you will find a folder named ‘Office’. Rename it, for e.g. to ‘OfficeOld’.

[This folder has subfolders which might include 8.0 and 11.0, which are probably for older versions of Office installed on that machine, and these dont go away even after uninstalling these older versions. Even running CCleaner on temp files and reg files didnt make them go away, and whatever the problems were they were causing. The new 'Office' folder which gets created when you open Office 07 for the first time after renaming it, only has Office 12.0]

By: Mauro

Mauro — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:27:22 +0000

Hola:
Versión 2:
Solo para que no muestre los parpadeos a la hora de hace los cambios o cálculos
Y un pequeño sumario de que hace cada instrucción.

Anexen lo siguiente:
Para el WorkBook: (en el ThisWorkBook de VBA)

Private Sub Workbook_Open()

Application.ScreenUpdating = False ‘ Para que no muestre parpadeos la pantalla al cambiar los datos
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual ’ para que no calcule la Hoja Automáticamente
Application.OnKey “{F9}”, “Recalc” ‘ ’ Anula el calculo
Application.ScreenUpdating = true ’ muestra los cambios

End Sub
‘————-Hasta aquí

Y para cada hoja “Sheet1(Name)” (En VBA) donde tengan datos que cambien de valor, ya sea de PI o que capturen.
‘ desde Aquí
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range) ’ Cada que cambia de valor una celda se dispara el macro
Application.EnableEvents = False’ para que no muestre parpadeos
Application.OnKey “{F9}”, “Recalc” ’ elimina el bug de excel

Application.EnableEvents = True ‘ muestra los cambios realizados.
End Sub

‘Hasta aquí
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