Word excel not open

Solution 1.) If you have installed PDF maker, which can get installed when you install scanner software, the Excel add-on can potentially cause Excel to open slowly. This is more common in Office 2007.

• Close Excel and any other window you have open
• Open "My Computer" and browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART
• < original it?s to back file the move or copy can you case which In plugin. use need that later out find in just folder another PDFMaker.xla>
• When you open Excel, check to see if the time it takes to open the xls/xlsx is shortened.

Solution 2.) This can be fixed by reinstalling Office but there is a faster way to fix this .

• Go to your Control Panel, (click on Start then Click on Control Panel)
• Click on Folder Options, then File Types,
• scroll down to and select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files),
• click Advanced and select Open entry,
• Click the edit Button.
• deselect "Use DDE"
• append "%1" (include the quote marks) to the end of the application command line,
• Remove /dde if it is at the end of the command line
• Then click on OK three times.

If the issue was being caused by DDE, then when you now open a Word doc file or Excel els; they will now open faster, without a long pause.