Try closing excel and cleaning up your windows temp folder--it might help and it
can't hurt.

windows start button|Run
%temp%
is a quick way to get there.

And here are a couple of sites that discuss slow performance. The first is by
Charles Williams and the second by David McRitchie:

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm

"Sam Pack via OfficeKB.com" wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm not sure if this is normal operation but Excel 2000 Help takes a very
> long time to load. I've tried on several pc's in our company and it takes
> the same amount of time. Is there any way to speed up the process of opening
> Help? Thanks for any comments/suggestions.
>
> Sam
>
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