I have made an Excel application that will create pdf's from a list of data. The Excel application and the pdf's live in a folder on Sharepoint.

For most people in my office this works fine, the pdf is created and saved in seconds. For me, however, it takes up to 4 minutes(!) for the same process.

I finally found that it depends on how you start Excel. If I start Excel by clicking the icon direct in the Office 16 folder then it works fast for me too.
If I start Excel by clicking the icon in the Sharepoint folder then I get the slooooow behavior.

What is going on? How can I be sure that this doesn't happen to one of my users? Something about Excel shortcuts and/or switches or something like that.




My thread on a vaguely related issue here for anyone who wants something to read: https://www.excelforum.com/excel-pro...en-saving.html