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

By: sdohertyccb

sdohertyccb — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:47:44 +0000

When I go to explorer; Tools’ Folder Options, I do not have a tab called File Types – only General, View and Search. What am I missing?

By: masud

masud — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:59:01 +0000

Great Job. Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much

By: Robert McKenzie

Robert McKenzie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:29:15 +0000

Awesome .. worked a treat. It was very frustrating having to wait for xls files to open.

By: vishal

vishal — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:39:54 +0000

thanks you so much.. for this such a useful and informative solution….
Hatsoff to you!!!
Take Care

By: Paul T

Paul T — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:51:24 +0000

Hey! it worked for me (XP SP3 & Office 2007 on E6600 Core 2 Duo)

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